Ning Chen

He pulled the hand of Gu Lichen's sleeve, as if as soon as he let go, Gu Lichen would leave him again.

"This is the Valley of Half Smoke..." Before Gu Lichen finished his sentence, he caught a glimpse of Xie Zhanning's hideous feet covered with blood sores from the corner of his eye, he frowned and asked, "Why are your feet like this? "

Xie Zhanning's eyes suddenly became hot, and tears flowed out uncontrollably. He lowered his head and murmured, "I, I came here from far away, for a long, long time... "

Gu Lichen still frowned, with a puzzled expression in his eyes, "Are you walking barefoot like this?"

"..." Xie Zhanning didn't reply, and nodded with his head down. Gu Lichen sighed softly, and couldn't bear to say: "There is still a long way to go to the Qianyan Sect. In my opinion, I'll carry you on my back."

Xie Zhanning suddenly let go of the hand that was holding Gu Lichen's sleeve, shook his head repeatedly and said, "No, I, I'm too dirty."

Gu Lichen's snow-white sleeves had long been blackened by Xie Zhanning's black hands, but Gu Lichen didn't care too much, instead he squatted down with his back to Xie Zhanning, "Come on."

Seeing that Xie Zhanning hadn't moved for a while, Gu Lichen raised his voice a little, pretending to be serious, "Come up if you tell me to come up!"

Before Xie Zhanning could react, Gu Lichen reached out and carried him on his back.

The moment he carried Xie Zhanning on his back, Gu Lichen felt that this little beggar was too flimsy, the clothes on his body were also ragged, and those bloody feet were even more shocking. Why did this little beggar I don't hesitate to make myself look like this, but I have to come to Tianshui Town alone.

Gu Lichen asked, "Little brother, where did you come from?"

"... Miao Jiang." Xie Zhanning's voice was extremely weak, holding back the sobs in his throat.

Gu Lichen's eyelids twitched, and he said, "Miao Jiang...then why did you come to Tianshui Town?"

Xie Zhanning said slowly, "I'm here to find someone."

Gu Lichen asked: "Looking for someone? Who are you looking for?"

"...Master..." Xie Zhanning's voice was already choked up, and he couldn't speak.

The more calm Gu Lichen's tone was, the more aggrieved Xie Zhanning felt. Obviously you wanted to accept me as a disciple, and you promised to come to pick me up. Now, how could you forget me? It's all clean, thinking about Xie Zhanning, he couldn't help it any longer, and burst into tears, big teardrops came out of his eyes like broken pearls, rinsing and falling on Gu Lichen's back, wetting a piece of snow-white clothes .

Gu Lichen suddenly felt a chill go down his back, and the people behind him couldn't stop sobbing and trembling, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong? Little brother, why are you crying?"

Xie Zhanning was crying with a lot of snot and tears, and couldn't stop calling: "Master, master, master..."

Gu Lichen lost his hands and feet at once, and said repeatedly: "Hey, don't cry, who is your master, let me see if I can find him for you."

Behind him, Xie Zhanning cried more and more fiercely, sobbing and trembling, "Master, it's me, it's me, little boy, don't you remember..."

In fact, Xie Zhanning is not a person who loves to cry. Since he was a child, he has been silent and restrained. It is only the second time to cry heartbreakingly like this, and the first time was when he was six years old. When his parents both died in front of him.

Gu Lichen frowned, thinking to himself, "Miao Jiang, little boy..." Yes, yes, Miao Jiang, he took in an apprentice on a whim a year ago, why did he let this happen? I forgot.

Gu Lichen's heart twitched, and he tentatively asked softly, "Xiao Zai Zai? Zhan Ning?"

Xie Zhanning touched his tears indiscriminately, choked up and said, "It's me, Master."

Seeing that Gu Lichen hadn't spoken for a while, Xie Zhanning sobbed, "Master, have you remembered?"

Gu Lichen coughed lightly, with guilt all over his face, "Ah, yes, Master remembered..."

The two remained silent for a while, Gu Lichen vaguely felt that Xie Zhanning behind him was still sobbing, and said, "Little Zai Zai, I'm sorry, it's all Master's fault, it's Master who made you suffer."

"Master..." Xie Zhanning was full of grievances and anger and wanted to vent to Gu Lichen, thinking that if he could see him again, he would have to scold him severely, but now that Gu Lichen apologized, Xie Zhanning In an instant, I couldn't say anything about complaining.

Seeing that Xie Zhanning behind him didn't respond, Gu Lichen continued: "Xiao Zai Zai, Master didn't intentionally miss the appointment, but Master didn't want to make excuses. If he was wrong, he was wrong. It doesn't matter how you want to scold Master."

I forgot all the promises I made, but let a child walk thousands of miles from Miaojiang to the Central Plains. Even if his feet were broken, he had to find him. Thinking of this, Gu Lichen felt more and more I don't deserve to be a teacher at all.

"...Master..." Xie Zhanning did blame Gu Lichen, he blamed Gu Lichen for breaking into his own world without saying a word, lighting a fire at random, and mercilessly extinguishing the fire people.

It is rumored in the market that the head of the Qianyan Sect, who is kind and gentle, changed his temperament overnight and escaped from the sect, causing the Qianyan Sect to have no leader. If you want to say that the Qianyan Sect is also a famous sect who has been in the immortal way for a hundred years, the head of the Qianyan Sect Shi Shuliu built the entire sect by himself. When the sect was first established, he had only two disciples with him. The first disciple was named Gu Zhi, and the second disciple was named Gu Lichen.

"Little boy, a year ago, Master went to Miaojiang to find Master's adoptive father, who is also the suzerain of our Qianyan Sect. Ever since Master can remember, it has been the foster father who has been teaching Chinese calligraphy..." Gu Lichen muttered to himself, "After Sister passed away, foster father is the only family member of Master in this world, so..."

The voices of adoptive father, elder sister, and Gu Lichen became weaker and weaker, and Xie Zhanning couldn't figure it out, "Master, are we here yet?"

There are scattered palaces and pavilions in front of you, some are built by the mountains, some live by the water, a clear spring pours down from the top of the mountain, and above the clear springs are dotted with lakes, some are shaped like bronze mirrors, some are shaped like green wine, and Looking at the valley, the mist is lingering, like an endless white brocade, hazy, like a fairyland, just as the name of the valley is, it is called half smoke.

Gu Lichen came back to his senses upon hearing the words, and said, "Yes, this is the Qianyan Sect."

Someone outside the sect suddenly shouted.

"Sovereign, the suzerain is back!"

"The suzerain is back!"

Before Gu Lichen stepped into the outer door, a sharp-eyed young disciple spotted him, and this shout brought more people together.

"Sect Master, you are finally back."

"metropolitan……"

Xie Zhanning buried his head behind Gu Lichen, not daring to show his face, Gu Lichen lowered his face, and said, "Didn't I tell you, don't call me suzerain."

"Quick, go and report to Elder Zhaohua."

When Gu Lichen heard the word 'Zhaohua', his expression changed, and he hurriedly said: "There is no need to report, I will go to him." After speaking, he carried Xie Zhanning on his back and walked towards his Heguangyuan.

"Who is the little beggar on the suzerain's back?"

"You have seen it too, it seems to be really a little beggar."

"The suzerain actually carried him behind his back..."

Xie Zhanning had heard the discussions of the outer disciples, but he didn't want to pay attention to them. The only thing he cared about was Gu Lichen.

14. Be true to what you say

"Brother Yan, is it true that Ah Xing won't live past the age of 16..."

Gu Lichen's dormitory is deeper in the valley. You can see it by walking along the bluestone corridor behind the main hall. The courtyard with blue tiles and white walls is extremely elegant. The colder the greener, a small pond was built in the courtyard, and it was at the turn of spring and summer, and the lotus in the pond was in full bloom.

Gu Lichen took a brocade handkerchief, and was gently wiping the dust off Xie Zhanning's face, "Come on, wipe your face clean."

Before Xie Zhanning could react, Gu Lichen poured another basin of water to wash his feet, "Little boy, you need to soak your feet with water for a while, and then pick out the bloody sores before applying the medicine."

Xie Zhanning was so frightened that he retracted his feet again and again, and stammered: "Master, I, I can wash it myself..."

Gu Lichen looked up at Xie Zhanning, his face full of guilt, "Let master wash it for you, the reason why your feet are like this is because of master, if you don't let me, master will not feel at ease. "

Xie Zhanning was still struggling to lift his foot outside, but seeing Gu Lichen's starry eyes filled with endless shame, he slowly relaxed, "..."

Gu Lichen's hands were extremely gentle, and he carefully cleaned the dirt and blood on Xie Zhanning's feet, fearing that it would hurt Xie Zhanning, "Okay, I'm going to pick up the blood sores next, it might hurt a little, bear with it, okay?" ?”

Gu Lichen carefully wiped Xie Zhanning's feet dry, and picked up the silver needle to carefully pierce the pustules one by one to squeeze out the blood. After a while, Gu Lichen's forehead was covered with fine sweat.

"Hiss..." Xie Zhanning let out a pain.

Gu Lichen hurriedly said, "What's the matter, does it hurt?"

Xie Zhanning shook his head, and forced himself to say: "No, it doesn't hurt." After all, it's ten fingers connected to the heart, so it doesn't hurt at all, but Xie Zhanning really didn't want to make Gu Lichen feel more guilty.

"Huh~" Xie Zhanning was in pain again, Gu Lichen blew lightly, this gentle breeze made Xie Zhanning's feet itch, and his ears turned red.

After picking out the pustules, Gu Lichen carefully applied ointment to Xie Zhanning's feet, and Xie Zhanning had been staring at him from the beginning to the end, this beautiful master never moved his eyes, Gu Lichen seemed to have noticed this With scorching eyes, he looked up at Xie Zhanning and asked, "Little Zai Zai, what's the matter? Why do you keep staring at Master?"

"Because it looks good." Xie Zhanning almost did not pretend