Chapter 23 Chapter 23 [VIP]
Light?
Ling Suye's thin eyelids trembled slightly, and he was full of surprise and doubt at the faint yet bright light.
He could hardly believe it was true.
But the facts are clear.
The eye where Gu Xuanyou wore the thing clearly felt the light. It was not the memory that appeared before his eyes in countless midnight dreams, but the real candlelight.
It is a little bit bigger than a bean, tiny and weak, but it has been Ling Suye's unattainable dream for the past three years.
Gu Xuanyou was standing next to the oil lamp at this moment. He was holding the light with his hands, worried that the light would suddenly become brighter and hurt the owner's eyes.
Ling Suye kept his head down and didn't move for a long time before he raised his head. He tried his best to hide his emotions that were surging like a storm, but anyone with a discerning eye could see through it at a glance.
Because at this moment, the lifeless eyes of this blind boy seemed to have a bit more wildness and magnanimity.
That was an emotion that Gu Xuanyou had never seen in his master's eyes.
That is the look that only young people with high spirits have when they "don't know the taste of sorrow".
He thought to himself, ever since he met his master, he has always been calm and composed, as if he wouldn't be afraid even if the sky fell.
To the extent that Gu Xuanyou often forgot his master's age, and even couldn't help but feel the kind of admiration and adoration that only one would have for an elder.
But the master is clearly only nineteen years old this year!
They haven’t even been given a title or a name yet!
Gu Xuanyou quietly turned his head away, and what appeared before him was the appearance of another young man - his fiancé Ling Suye.
The young man took him on horseback riding, taught him to draw the bow and shoot arrows, and even before his horse tried to throw him off, he came galloping over on a golden-brown horse, picked him up while lying almost sideways on the ground, and lifted him up face down onto his own horse.
The young man's caring words rang in his ears: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Ling Suye happened to be walking towards Gu Xuanyou at this moment. His voice overlapped with that of the young man with the clear voice ten years ago, and the symphony sounded in Gu Xuanyou's ears.
"Thank you very much."
Gu Xuanyou quickly came back to his senses, he felt like he was going crazy.
How could she mistake the master for her deceased fiancé?
Gu Xuanyou asked: "Master, can you see?"
Ling Suye nodded. "Yes, I can see that. The craftsman's skill truly transforms decay into something magical."
He thanked her again: "Thank you."
Master Wen listened to their conversation and thought to himself, this thing can actually make a blind man see again?
"Can you really see it?" His rough voice interrupted the two of them, and the little bit of charming atmosphere that had been gathered disappeared.
Ling Suye was still looking at Gu Xuanyou, but he answered to Master Wen.
“I can see.”
"Let me take a look. Although this piece of jade is full of spiritual energy, but, but, from ancient times to the present, no one has been able to make a blind man see." Master Wen wanted to take away the thin jade mirror on Ling Suye's face, but Gu Xuanyou quickly stopped him and took out another thin piece from his arms.
"Master, please study this."
Only then did Master Wen remember that his good apprentice had cut the jade into dozens of thin slices.
Then there will naturally be more than one finished product.
So he took the thin piece that Gu Xuanyou gave him, walked to the front of the stage, sat down on the ground, re-lit a handful of fire, and looked at the talisman drawn by Gu Xuanyou in the firelight.
"Your writing is completely unruly," he said.
After asking Ling Suye whether he could see objects clearly while wearing the jade mirror, Gu Xuanyou immediately knelt beside his master and listened carefully to his teachings, hoping to improve the completeness and clarity of the image formed by the jade mirror.
——Although there is still a long way to go before the 'Jade Mirror' is perfected, it is at least a good start now.
Master Wen shook his head: "There's absolutely no rules."
Gu Xuanyou replied hesitantly, "Master, you said 'what the mind desires, the brush follows'. What I was thinking about was that the surrounding scenery could be seen through the jade mirror, so I painted it subconsciously."
Master Wen looked at Ling Suye deeply, and finally set his gaze on Gu Xuanyou.
"As expected of the Shi family, your ancestors didn't like to stick to the old ways. When drawing talismans, they always emphasized following the spirit and the heart. What I taught you at first was just copying the Shi family classics. I didn't expect you to actually master it."
Gu Xuanyou: “…”
Gu Xuanyou: “?”
The atmosphere suddenly became a little stagnant.
Master Wen seemed to realize that he had let the cat out of the bag - why did he always want to speak out what was on his mind!
In silence, he continued to look at the thin jade mirror and stopped talking.
Ling Suye raised his left hand, gently held the thin mirror, and looked carefully at the small back room.
For someone who had not seen color and light for three years, this little house was a pleasant surprise.
Gu Xuanyou secretly glanced at his master out of the corner of his eye.
It seemed that because he could see, the aura around the master was no longer as dull as before. He seemed to have more vitality, just like the tender green buds growing again on the branches of a tree that was almost dead due to a long drought.
The smile on Gu Xuanyou's lips never stopped.
Suddenly, Ling Suye looked in the direction of Gu Xuanyou. When their eyes met, Gu Xuanyou's expression froze and he suddenly became a little at a loss.
this……
this……
My heart was beating wildly in my chest.
Ling Suye's gaze was as if real, falling on the top of Gu Xuanyou's head, forehead, eyes, nose tip, and finally passing over his lips to his jaw.
"He is worthy of being Mr. Sheng, the bright moon of the capital." Ling Suye thought.
With this appearance and the dignified and upright scholarly air about him, it is no exaggeration to say that he is the newly crowned top scholar.
The Great Zhou Dynasty valued military prowess, and the top scholar in martial arts was more praised than the top scholar in literature who was well-versed in the Four Books and Five Classics.
Judging from Gu Xuanyou's martial arts attainments, it was a foregone conclusion that he would become the top martial arts champion.
If that day really comes, it will be truly a time of "riding high on the spring breeze".
Master Wen lowered his head at some point, looked at Ling Suye who had been staring at him, and then looked at Gu Xuanyou who was fidgeting, and immediately felt that he should not be here.
He was very puzzled. They were all men, so why was there such a subtle atmosphere?
Before his master could speak, Gu Xuanyou jumped up and ran to the outer courtyard: "I'll go see if the water has boiled."
Ling Suye was about to follow when Master Wen stopped him. "They say the Shi family's craftsmen possess spirits with their hearts. That kid must be genuinely devoted to you, as if offering to the Buddha. Otherwise, he couldn't have crafted such a thin mirror in just two months. Ling... Hey, boy, tell me how it feels to wear this thin mirror."
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The jade mirror was like timely help to Ling Suye.
He brought the jade and traveled to Loulan overnight, hoping to try his luck and see what Master Wen thought of it and what style he could make it into.
I never thought that I could create a spiritual weapon that would allow me to see things for a short period of time.
Although the thin jade mirror can only allow him to see objects that are close to him clearly, objects one or two meters away will become blurry.
But this has solved Ling Suye's urgent problem.
Back at the inn, Ling Suye put on the thin jade mirror again, and the long gilded chain jingled softly beside his ears.
He sat down at the table with Gu Xuanyou and said, "Three years ago, I saved your life. We verbally agreed that I would set you free when I no longer needed you."
Gu Xuanyou's heart skipped a beat.
His face immediately turned pale.
Ling Suye said, "It's not that I don't need you now, but the spiritual weapon you gave me, in my opinion, has already offset the favor I gave you when I saved your life three years ago."
Gu Xuanyou blurted out, "How can a human life be compared to a spiritual weapon? Besides, the master not only saved my life, but also healed me. If it wasn't the master I met that day, even if I was saved, I would have died of the poison later."
He immediately guessed what Ling Suye meant, but he didn't want to leave his master, at least not so soon.
He stood up and insisted, "I have no way to repay the kindness my master has bestowed upon me."
Ling Suye was still sitting. He raised his head and looked at Gu Xuanyou.
The thin chain brushed across the ear, bringing a slight itch.
A warm current flows in my heart.
The three years of relying on each other is ultimately a strong and colorful emotion.
"I remember that you tried so hard to survive that you wanted to find a very important person." At least that's what Gu Xuanyou told him back then.
Because, if a person is free from worries on these stone steps, abandoned by everyone, but has no desire for revenge, he or she will not be able to survive the long and difficult healing process.
——Digging out dead flesh and waiting for new flesh to grow back will make people suffer so much that life would be worse than death.
Ling Suye continued, "I don't mean to pry into your privacy. I just want to say that we're even now. If you feel like life is okay now, we can go together. If you ever want to leave, I won't force you to stay."
Seeing the color returning to Gu Xuanyou's lips, Ling Suye added, "Now that we've settled our debt, you don't have to call me Master anymore. Call me... Ling Wuming."
The name Ling Suye has been buried in the ancestral tomb in Mobei along with all the members of the Ling family.
Unless something unexpected happens, this name will never appear in the world again.
Gu Xuanyou opened his mouth and found his voice after a while: "Okay."
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At dawn, Ling Suye was not sleepy.
——He could finally see for himself what the token on the person who was infected with the 'death poison' looked like.
Ling Suye took out the heavy token.
He brought a thin jade mirror, walked to the candlelight, and carefully observed the patterns on it.
He now knew very little about the origins of these men in black, only the two pieces of information about the 'Death Gu' and the 'Black-robed Iron Guards'.
These two pieces of news point to the imperial palace.
But Ling Suye knew very well that his current strength was not enough to fight against the powerful.
Therefore, this token might be the target he will look for next.
Ling Suye remembered that before the man in black died, he was digging his throat with one hand and trying desperately to take something out of his body with the other hand.
Later, he found only this token based on the location the man in black had searched.
Therefore, there must be something fishy about this token.
It might be able to transmit information to the outside world or send out a distress signal.
Ling Suye had only let Gu Xuanyou take a rough look at it before. Because he was not sure whether the token had any mechanism, he did not let him examine it in detail.
Now that I can see with my own eyes, I can put the search for the token on the agenda.
Ling Suye weighed it in his hand.
With the feel of picking herbs all year round, Ling Suye felt that its weight was no different from that of ordinary gold.
Logically speaking, this is just a token with strange patterns...
Wait, the patterns are weird.
Texture?
Could it be that this has something to do with the craftsman?
Ling Suye's heart began to beat wildly.
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Gu Xuanyou: My master is strong and gentle, I love him so much!
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