Slave forever

Holding the scissors, Xiao Chen bent over and walked through his flower garden, while slowly trimming the withered parts of the leaf tips and the overgrown branches, while carefully controlling his pace so as not to hurt his beloved flower seedlings.

The orchids of different varieties in this garden have always been cared for by him like treasures, and they are not easily seen by others.

Over the years, only when Xie Yutong was the deputy head of the Xunzan Pavilion, he once got jealous of the head of the pavilion and ran to the garden and trampled on all the flowers and trees, which made him depressed for a long time.

After the "ruthless" Xie Yutong finally got married, no one dared to step on flowers and pull weeds, or stole the new tea he planted as a gift. Xiao Chen guarded the huge garden, and sometimes felt deserted.

There are quite a few people in the headquarters of Xunzan Pavilion, one pavilion master, two deputy pavilion masters, and the landlord on the fifth floor below.However, everyone knows that he is very quiet and only likes flowers and plants. His place is never as lively as Lu Qianxun's place in Tongyou Building.

People often say that he is gentle and refined, a modest and independent gentleman, but because of this, they are always polite, respectful and respectful to him but not close.

They looked at him not as if they were looking at a person, but as if they were looking at a painting.

The beauty of the people in the painting is beautiful, so naturally they can only be seen from a distance and not played with.

Xiao Chen cut off the last bit of dead leaves and threw them in the mud.In a few days, these will wither into dust to nourish the newly grown seedlings.

People in the rivers and lakes come and go, old and new come and go, but it is a pity that he is desolate, and there seems to be no one or anything worth loving.

Xie Yutong had been infatuated with the pavilion master for so many years, but finally he came to his senses and left with Li Yi.

The pavilion master is still thinking about the woman in red in the loess ridge, and probably will never marry again in this life.

At least they have all experienced that feeling, wanting to have the feeling of wanting to be close to someone.But he has never had it. Everything in this world passes through his heart like running water, leaving only faint water stains without leaving a scratch.

This is different from despair, world-weariness, and loneliness. He is just indifferent, and feels gentle and quiet in the face of everything, but he can't feel any strong desire.According to Lu Qianxun, he has reached the stage, he should not come to the rivers and lakes, but should become a monk.

How did he answer it?Oh, he said at the time that there is no difference between being a monk and being a monk. Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.I don't remember the latter, but Lu Qianxun must have laughed at him, this kid is just a bitch.

Xiao Chen put down the scissors, sat down on the stone slab next to the flower garden, holding a newly cultivated orchid in his hand, this is a species that has never existed before, and there is no second one in this world.Put it under the tip of your nose and smell it. The original aroma of orchids is mixed with the clear smell of deer, which is really special.

He was in a daze when he heard the sound of a door opening and being slammed not far away, followed by the sound of a dull heavy object falling to the ground, Lu Qianxun's voice "Ouch, Ouch".

Looking at the sky, it's not yet noon, it seems that this kid Lu Qianxun has a ruthless heart, went to wake the pavilion master to wake up, every day he is thrown out by the pavilion master, and he doesn't get annoyed every day.

"Early to bed and early to rise, good health, Pavilion Master! You will gain weight like this! You will gain weight! Mo San Mo San, come out quickly, someone is going to sleep to death!" Lu Qianxun's energetic voice echoed in the yard, it was really very Noisy.

The cleaning servant dragged his broom and walked past without any surprises, and laughed at Lu Qianxun, "Little man, the third deputy Pavilion Master Mo left the house half a month ago, you are called a soul."

Lu Qianxun glared at him, but was ignored by others.

There is an allusion to this nickname. Lu Qianxun used to be complacent about his slender waist and long legs. Later, someone told him that if he tied a kite string around his waist, he might be able to fly as a kite.

So from then on, Lu Qianxun hated his subordinates to call him Xiaomanyao the most, but he liked to mingle with the people below him so much that he had no prestige at all. In the end, everyone called him Xiaomanyao, except for staring at him Method.

Xiao Chen twirled the flower in his hand, looked at Lu Qianxun's bulging appearance, both cheeks bulged out, it looked very interesting, thinking that poking a poke might make a dimple, so he couldn't hold back , laughed out loud.

This smile exposed the target, a guy who claimed to be "Chu Yao, slender palm and light palm" walked over unsteadily, put his paw on Xiao Chen's shoulder skillfully, and said darkly: "Xiao Huahua, if you laugh again, I will kill you!" All your flowers were trampled to death, so I asked you to change your name to Xiao Wuhuahua."

Xiao Chen brushed off that paw, dumbfounded, and said very calmly: "I am not called Xiao Huahua, let alone Xiao Wuhuahua."

"Hey, you're so boring, you're just like that old monk in meditation every day. Hey, what kind of flower is this, I haven't seen it before." Lu Qianxun's gaze fell on Xiao Chen's hand, and it immediately lit up. He is the owner of Tongyou Building. Although the responsibility of Tongyou Building is to track and investigate, he likes clever tricks, and he is the rarest thing that seems to be very rare.

Xiao Chen spread his palms and said concisely, "Orchid."

Lu Qianxun looked at him suspiciously, "Orchid? Impossible, I've never seen an orchid that grows like this before, don't you go digging in some deep mountain ditch again?"

"When have I been digging in deep mountains and wild ditches? I'm not a dog."

Lu Qianxun suspiciously took the strange orchid from Xiao Chen's palm, and slid his fingertips across the intricate lines on Xiao Chen's palm, leaving behind a fleeting warmth and tactile sensation. Xiao Chen felt his palm itch for no reason, Even the mood is a little different.

Lu Qianxun held the flowers in front of his eyes for a long time, smelled them again and again, and murmured to himself, "That's not right, it clearly smells like wandering flowers."

Xiao Chen was awakened by a slightly suspicious voice. He nodded and said, "Yes, this is a new variety I cultivated. It is a graft of gladiolus and azalea. It has no name yet."

When he looked up, he saw that Lu Qianxun tore off a petal, threw it into his mouth and chewed it. Only this kid in the world would do such a strange thing, and he was not afraid that the flowers he planted would be poisonous? Lu Qianxun I probably thought it tasted good, so I stuffed the whole flower into my mouth, and said vaguely while eating: "It's delicious, I can use it to make orchid cake next time, eh, it's better to call it Hejulan .”

"Hezhulan? What allusion?"

"You plant and I eat, a perfect match. Hey, you, just you—come here, poke your head in the distance for a long time, and pretend that I can't see it."

Xiao Chen was almost laughed at by that sentence of Zhulianbiheqi. Is there anyone who uses idioms so indiscriminately? But now that someone is here, he can't say much. He just thinks that although the source is unreliable, the name Hezhulan is really good. .

The person who came was a beautiful woman, she walked to Xiao Chen gracefully, whispered a few words in her ear, Xiao Chen didn't look surprised, he just asked in confirmation, "Really?"

The woman nodded, "It's absolutely true."

"What kind of hidden weapon."

"A few floating dreams."

"Then send them a message."

"But even though the orchid imprint on the hidden weapon of the deputy cabinet master is real, it doesn't have to be taken care of."

Xiao Chen shook his head, "If I'm not mistaken, these two should be - my old friends."

Chu Yue and Yan Huaifeng have been free these two days.

Ever since they went to the Xunzan Pavilion branch in Tianzhu City and showed them Xiao Chen's hidden weapon, they have been waiting for news from Xiao Chen.In such a vast rivers and lakes, the high-level executives of Xunzan Pavilion are mysterious, and looking for someone is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack.

But it's much easier to wait for someone to come to them.

During the time the two stayed in Tianzhu City, rumors spread day after day. Now it is not only that people in the Holy Gate use young children to refine medicine and bully the people in southern Yunnan, what's more, there are also rumors that In fact, people are not human beings, they are all demons cultivated in deep mountains and old forests, and they gather together to try to cause harm to the world.

It is also said that they have to kill a pair of virgin boys and girls on the first and fifteenth day of each month, drink their blood and eat their flesh, otherwise they will transform into prototypes, and they dare not go out during the day, otherwise they will be wiped out by the sun.

In short, the more it spread, the more mysterious it became, and in the end it was even more exciting than the legendary story. Everyone listened to it, but they didn’t believe it. Many people just laughed it off—how could such a ridiculous thing exist!If the people in the holy gate were demons and couldn't bask in the sun, wouldn't the young master of the holy gate who snatched the bride that day be turned into ashes long ago.

Also because the rumors were outrageous, people with brains pondered for a while and became suspicious of the previous rumors. For a while, the attitude of the Central Plains martial arts towards the Holy Gate gradually split into two factions from the beginning of fighting and killing.

Li Yi, leader of the White Dao, questioned the rumors, making others unwilling to act rashly, and instead formed a stalemate.

And the instigator of these absurd rumors was none other than Yan Huaifeng himself, the former Young Master of the Holy Gate.After hearing Li Yi's words in Baidao League with Chu Yue that day, he already had a dispute.The flaws in the rumors are too small to convince most people.

As the best way to hide a drop of water is to put it in a stream, so to make a rumor less powerful, it only needs to create an infinite number of rumors.

This strategy has achieved great results, plus Xiao Chen has not yet responded, and Zhao Wenhu and others have not acted yet and are still stranded in Tianzhu City.Therefore, Yan Huaifeng and Chu Yue had nothing to do these two days, and walked around the entire Tianzhu City.Mei Yan chatted with them, it was extremely lively.

Zhao Wenhu and others originally wanted to leave that day, because Li Yi said that it was the Martial Arts Festival in Tianzhu City recently. At that time, the city will not only be full of lights and traffic, but also many people will bring out the top-quality weapons in their home collections to let them go. People watch.

The fanaticism of the Jianghu people towards weapons is undeniable, because none of the people who came to the wedding before left, and they couldn't be too obtrusive, so they had to stay here sullenly.

In a blink of an eye, it was the Martial Arts Festival.

I don’t feel anything during the day, but at night, each household hangs a new and clever octagonal wind lamp in front of the door. A little bit of candlelight is separated by a layer of veil, which looks hazy and beautiful, and even the people under the lamp It's all like a dream.

The fireworks all over the sky were set off, as if gorgeous gemstones were spread on the sky, illuminating the entire city that never sleeps.People come and go in the night market, and women and children carrying lanterns shuttle through it, as if they have entered a fairyland by mistake.

Mei Yan squeezed to the place where she was buying rouge, gouache and pearl hairpins, so Yan Huaifeng and Chu Yue had no choice but to leave by themselves.

Two big men walking together at the makeup booth should have raised eyebrows, but luckily Yan Huaifeng still dressed like a dandy, Chu Yue was half a step behind, just like a young master from a rich family taking his servants out for a stroll, it's not against harmony .

It was the first time for the two of them to have such an ordinary experience in the market, away from the disputes and bloody fights in the rivers and lakes, without conspiracy and tricks, without cruelty and indifference, just like ordinary young masters from ordinary people, fighting cocks and horses, wandering around the flowers.

Ordinary but warm.

After walking through half of the city slowly, the population gradually became scarce.

Chu Yue had just seen at least three people from the rivers and lakes that he had met at the wedding passing by him, looking left and right to find something, and couldn't help asking: "Young master, is what Li Yi said true? It looks just ordinary Festival, and no weapons or anything like that."

Yan Huaifeng looked at a different market in the distance, blinked his eyes, "If he said it was true, he would definitely not make it false."

Chu Yue looked together with his eyes, and immediately felt that this place was different from the bustling market just passed by. This market obviously carried a cold and heavy atmosphere. With different shades of light.

Even the lights hanging here are different from other places, the light is more hazy, with a bit of mystery.

There are a lot of weapons on display, most of which look ordinary, not considered peerless magic weapons - the two of them knew very well that the real peerless magic weapons would not appear here.

However, within two steps, Yan Huaifeng's eyes suddenly fell on a sword that looked dusty and black.