Encounter (8)
"You." Zhu Ming was so amused by her smile that he reached out and touched her long hair, saying softly, "Master didn't let you go out intentionally, not to restrict your freedom."
Li Zhaoyue nodded repeatedly.
She had a strange physique that was particularly attractive to spirits. Whenever she left the Yizi Courtyard, there would always be spirits following her scent to find her. When she had to go out, Xie Feng was always by her side.
This time it was an accident.
I thought the spirit was near Yiziyuan and didn't dare to come out, but I didn't expect it to be in danger.
"Master, please don't blame Xu Xing, okay? My legs are on my own body, and I wanted to go out myself." Li Zhaoyue said in a soft voice, pulling Zhu Ming's sleeve and acting coquettishly.
She is so cute, with a chubby and rosy face, which is really touching.
Zhu Ming sighed and patted her head: "Ayue has grown up, and Master can't control her anymore."
Li Zhaoyue's eyes sparkled, and he smiled without saying a word.
Zhu Ming removed his hand from her head, stood up, straightened his messy clothes, and seemed to be leaving. Li Zhaoyue was just thinking about how to be lazy today when she heard Zhu Ming's voice with a faint smile.
"Elder Cen is giving a lecture today, A Yue, don't be late."
What? Elder Cen!
The scene of the old man pointing at her and yelling seemed to be just yesterday. Li Zhaoyue shuddered and didn't dare to stay in bed anymore. She hurriedly put on her clothes, climbed out of bed and ran to the dressing table.
Seeing this, Zhu Ming shook his head helplessly and walked out of the room.
Li Zhaoyue quickly tied a side braid, picked and chose in the jewelry box, and finally took out a goose yellow headband with delicate gold thread embroidered on the edge.
Elder Cen was not gentle at all, but rather very serious. Li Zhaoyue didn't even have time to eat breakfast before he hurried out with his bag on his back.
Fortunately, Elder Cen had not arrived when they arrived at the school. Li Zhaoyue sat down hurriedly, reached into the desk, and touched something hot.
She took the thing out of the table in surprise and found it was a steamed bun.
The young man's clear voice came from the side: "Eat quickly, or it will get cold if you don't eat it now."
A strange young man in black sat in Xu Xing's seat, looking at her with a smile.
"You are..." Li Zhaoyue put the buns on the table and asked in surprise.
"My name is Fang Yu, and I just joined the Feng Shui Academy yesterday." The young man in black was not wearing a Taoist robe, and he was particularly conspicuous among the crowd of people wearing yellow and white clothes.
Li Zhaoyue returned the bun and looked at him, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself.
The smile on Fang Yu's face deepened, and he winked at her: "Why don't you eat? Didn't you have breakfast this morning?"
Li Zhaoyue didn't like this strange new classmate very much and shook his head.
"You..." She was about to speak when the originally noisy classroom suddenly became quiet and a steady sound of footsteps came from the door.
Li Zhaoyue secretly swallowed his saliva and silently lit a candle for Fang Yu in his heart.
As expected, as soon as Cen Lin entered the room, he spotted Fang Yu without his Taoist robes and shouted angrily, "The one in black, stand up!"
Fang Yu was stunned for a long time before realizing that he was being called. He stood up awkwardly and was about to ask what was wrong with a smile when he was hit on the head by the oncoming ruler.
A burning pain came from his forehead. Fang Yu stood there in a daze, touching his forehead in disbelief.
Then he touched his hand with blood.
He screamed, rolled his eyes, kicked his feet, and fell straight to the ground.
The accident happened so quickly that the classroom was silent for a moment, and then filled with fierce shouting.
"Junior Brother Fang was knocked unconscious by Elder Cen!"
"Someone please notify the medical school! He seems to be dying!"
"Stop arguing. I'm taking him to medical school. Li Zhaoyue, you come with me!"
*
Xu Xing did not go to the school today. Instead, he took Li Zhaoyue's longevity lock and quietly went to the inner layer.
He inquired about information from various sources and found out that Zhu Ming was out today and Li Zhaoyue was in class. There was no one in the inner area, so it was the best time for him to come in.
There was indeed no one in Qingfeng Courtyard. Apart from the occasional sound of wind blowing through the leaves, the whole place was silent.
He hid in the shadow of a big tree, with silver threads flashing on his wrists. In an instant, fine silk threads covered the entire Qingfeng Courtyard, and soft sunlight sprinkled on them, like the traces of stars passing through the night sky.
Xu Xing arranged the silk thread, closed his eyes lightly, and began to sense the breath.
The silk thread that had not vibrated for a long time began to react slowly, from slight vibrations at the beginning to almost slipping out of the hand later.
Xu Xing's stomach was filled with blood and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
This power... is wrong!
He suddenly retracted the silk thread and left Qingfeng Courtyard as quickly as possible, thus avoiding being cut into pieces by the sword light.
The seemingly peaceful and safe courtyard actually hides Zhu Ming's sword energy. Once they sense the breath of others, they will rush out in full force and cut the intruder into pieces.
If he hadn't brought this...
Xu Xing opened his palm, and on it lay a golden longevity lock.
"Li Zhaoyue..." He called the name softly, with a strange smile on the corner of his mouth.
This Qingfeng Courtyard is full of hidden secrets. Maybe that thing is hidden here.
Li Zhaoyue, this is probably his only way to get close to such a thing.
After a while, when the blood in his throat completely disappeared, he closed his palms, clenched the longevity lock, turned around and walked towards the Feng Shui courtyard.
*
Fang Yu was awakened by a loud noise.
"What kind of doctor are you? You just randomly mixed all the herbs together to make a pill, and then you call yourself a miracle healer. Why hasn't the patient recovered after taking your pill?"
"You herbalists are so easy to talk when you're not doing it. Do you have to wait until you've dug up all the herbs to save people, and then wait until you've blended all the herbs together, mixed them in the right proportions, and made them into pills? If all the doctors in the world were like you say, everyone would have died long ago!"
"But it was the medicine I brewed just now that made this disciple look better?"
"Why didn't you say that he stopped bleeding after taking my pill?"
"Dan Xiu is truly shameless!"
"Yao Xiu is really shameless!"
In the pharmacy east of the medical school, two students were arguing with each other, neither of them willing to give in.
Li Zhaoyue followed Cen Lin like a quail, playing the role of a good and obedient child.
"Why hasn't he woken up yet?" Cen Lin looked at Fang Yu, who was pretending to be asleep, with disdain and said loudly.
"Maybe the effect of the medicine is not stable." A disciple who was obviously more calm answered.
Cen Lin snorted coldly and stood up impatiently: "What a trouble! It's been half an hour and you still haven't woken up, Li Zhaoyue!"
His sudden shout scared her half to death.
"Elder..." She slowly moved in front of him and whispered, "What's the matter?"
Cen Lin's face turned pale as he extended his finger and pointed lightly outwards, "I'm afraid today's class won't be held. Go back and have the students prepare. I'll personally supervise the exam in half a month. It'll be about Bagua Positioning."
He paused here, glanced at her suspiciously, and then continued, "Your master asked me to keep a close eye on you and do well in the exam."
But his expression didn't seem to be one of encouragement, but rather a silent warning.
You want to cheat? No way!
Li Zhaoyue suddenly felt like she was struck by a bolt from the blue. There was nothing on her shoulders, but now she felt like she was being pressed down by two invisible mountains, making it hard for her to breathe.
Seeing that she was still in a daze, Cen Lin asked with some dissatisfaction: "Why are you still dawdling?"
Li Zhaoyue walked out the door slowly with a bitter face.
"Hurry up!"
The shouting from behind made her heart skip a beat. She could only lift her skirt and run.
Only after the figure quickly disappeared in the distance did Cen Lin withdrew his gaze with satisfaction.
Unexpectedly, when Fang Yu pretended to be asleep, Cen Lin actually drove Li Zhaoyue away.
It's not right for him to continue sleeping, nor is it right for him to wake up suddenly.
Cen Lin was probably really tired of waiting, so he made up an excuse and left. For a moment, he and the three students from the medical school were the only ones left in the pharmacy.
The two people who had been arguing heatedly just now were so angry that they stopped talking, but the calm disciple suddenly spoke up.
"Do you still remember the death in Lixiangyuan?" He lowered his voice deliberately and asked mysteriously.
"Didn't the dean say that the disciple accidentally became possessed?"
"No, no, no. A few days ago, Jinxiantai sent people to investigate and unexpectedly found out that the case was committed by a disciple of Fengshui Academy. However, it seems that they were wrongly accused. However, I have new information here."
"What news?"
"Some say that disciple was killed by the ghost tribe!"
"How is that possible? The ghost tribe is just a legend."
"I've heard some strange noises coming out of the Feng Shui courtyard's back garden these past few days. Someone walked there at night and suddenly passed out. When they woke up during the day, they found themselves sleeping in a pool and nearly drowned!"
"Why does it sound so fake?"
"That little girl from earlier, you know her, right? A few days ago, when I passed by the Feng Shui Courtyard, I happened to see her heading towards the back garden, and then she disappeared!"
The abduction of Li Zhaoyue was kept a secret, but it still caused quite a stir. The disciple talked about it in mysterious ways, and Fang Yu had already believed most of it as he listened.
Could it be that what Xu Xing is looking for is related to the ghosts in the back garden?
He was making plans in his mind.
*
When Li Zhaoyue returned to Feng Shui Courtyard, he ran into Xu Xing.
He looked a little listless, and his face, which usually always had a smile on it, looked a little gloomy.
She hesitated for a while, but still didn't dare to call him, and followed his back into the school.
"Hey, senior sister, is Fang Yu okay?" Someone saw her come in and asked while waving at her.
Xu was walking in front of her. When he heard the voice, he turned around and his light brown eyes fell on her indifferently.
Li Zhaoyue suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
"He...he's fine. The elder asked me to come back first..." At this point, she suddenly became confident and raised her voice, saying, "He said that the big exam in half a month will test Bagua positioning, and he will be the invigilator himself, so we should be well prepared."
Xu Xing suddenly smiled, and despite Li Zhaoyue's evasive look, he reached out his hand and patted her head lightly.
"You..." Li Zhaoyue widened his eyes.
"Class is almost time." He threw down these words and strode towards his seat. As soon as he sat down, he felt Fang Yu's presence. He reached into the table and touched a cold bun.
Li Zhaoyue quickly returned to his seat and watched him pick up the bun and throw it aside casually.
"This morning, a new disciple named Fang Yu sat in your seat. This bun is his." She stuttered, observing his expression as she spoke, afraid that he would be unhappy.
But Xu Xing just nodded lightly.
"I thought you weren't coming..."
Xu Xing smiled again, his eyes curved and looked very beautiful.
"No, I had something to do this morning. If someone else sits in my seat in the future, can you help me get them out?" He looked at her sadly.
"I don't really like other people taking my seat."
When the disciple sitting behind Xu Xing heard this, he rolled his eyes.
It was obviously him who was originally sitting next to Li Zhaoyue, but this kid suddenly appeared and snatched his seat away. Now he even has the nerve to say that he doesn't like others sitting in his seat.
How shameless.
Li Zhaoyue hated to see others sad, so he quickly patted his chest and agreed, promising to keep a seat for him.
"But..." She looked at Xu Xing cautiously again and stuttered.
"What's wrong?" Xu Xing asked her with a smile.
Li Zhaoyue pondered for a long time before finally speaking: "What happened yesterday wasn't your fault. If Master said anything bad about you, please don't take it to heart. It was actually me who wanted to leave yesterday, and I dragged you into taking risks. I should apologize to you."
She looked at Xu Xing's stunned expression, and the corners of her lips curled up.
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