Chapter 323: Heart Clear

Yang Yan was silent for a while: "Pei Ye. I don't want to go to Tianshan anymore."

Pei Ye was stunned: "Why?"

"I don't think I can stay any longer."

"."

Pei Ye's irritability suddenly rose again, and his heart was heavy. He frowned and took a deep breath, trying to persuade him.

But suddenly I felt an inexplicable tiredness.

Under the night rain, the girl's hands like orchids and green leaves flashed in his heart again, and Pei Ye looked at the young man in front of him in silence.

"I know I'm a bit stupid." Yang Yan whispered, "It's easy to be deceived. But going to Tianshan, isn't it always the same? I think... I'm not ready to take revenge. I can only do what I want most now." Things to do."

"Are you sure it was your senior brother who killed your master?"

Yang Yan raised her head blankly.

"Anyway, if you go on your own, think about many things." Pei Ye whispered, "But, anyway, if you don't go to Tianshan, it doesn't mean you won't learn the sword. I will teach you this sword."

".good."

Pei Ye took two steps back and opened his sword stance: "I haven't learned all about this sword, and there is no way to master it in just one lesson. I'll teach you the sword moves. It doesn't matter if you can't learn them in a hurry. Remember the day. Just practice it day by day. When you have mastered the sword, you should be in the spiritual realm. The only way to go is to understand it. Only when the heart and the sword are harmonious can it truly be in your hands."

"Once you learn this sword, other swords will become easier to learn." Pei Ye finally explained, slowly dismantling the first move piece by piece to the young man in front of him.

After a difficult walk, Pei Ye temporarily put away his sword: "I'll go to the Immortal Platform first, you-"

His voice suddenly stopped.

In front of the courtyard gate, a man in green clothes was standing there quietly. The girl's silky hair was neatly rolled up, and her blue robe was cleaner than the rain-washed green trees. She was standing gracefully, her sleeves and robes swaying in the morning breeze.

She looked over here blankly, and their eyes met.

Pei Ye couldn't help but look at her left sleeve, only to see light emptiness.

Li Mingqing subconsciously hid back, and then gently curved the corners of her mouth towards him.

"I heard you're awake," she said softly, looking at the boy walking over, "Are you okay?"

"It's nothing serious." Pei Ye lowered his eyes, "What about you?"

"I don't have anything to do." Li Mingqing frowned slightly, then lowered her eyebrows, "Should we go for a walk by the lake?"

".good."

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On the bank of Zhuoyue Lake, young girls stood quietly under the willow tree. Under the morning light, the lake surface was covered with a thin layer of sparkling light.

"How is the leader?" Pei Ye asked in a low voice.

"We are out of danger this time." Li Mingqing looked at the lake, "It's just that there may not be many days left."

".how long?"

"Maybe ten days, maybe three months." Li Mingqing lowered his head, "Actually, the first time I saw his look, I knew there was no way to recover."

"." Pei Ye lowered his eyebrows and looked at the girl, speechless for a moment.

He still remembered that when they first met, she was burdened with the blood feud of her senior brother being killed. She was chatting and laughing as usual in such a depressing situation, and could not see the heavy pressure in her heart at all. It had only been more than ten days since she had escaped from the abyss, and Pei Ye had just seen her truly hopeful and happy, and everything was suddenly thrown back hard.

The only relative left again, and Cuiyu lost her only master. The seventeen-year-old girl had to bear everything alone again.

This time she was no longer facing the Seven Dragon Cave, but the Huansi Tower.

"Then what are you going to do next?" Pei Ye's voice was dry.

"What should I do if nothing happens?" Li Mingqing smiled and looked ahead quietly, her dress swaying like a willow tree.

“There’s never really a ‘what to do’.”

Pei Ye turned his head and looked at her. The girl's side face was still so clear. Pei Ye has looked at this face many times, near or far, hastily or carefully. "Looking back gives birth to blue, and shaking makes it pale green." She has always had a very unique good look, and her every frown and smile carry the beauty of the mountains. The aura brought by the autumn mist in the clear stream.

This face is very suitable for being flexible. Except when biting your lip and crying, it almost doesn't look ugly.

But now for the first time, Pei Ye saw a strange vastness from above, like the Zhuyue Lake with gentle waves in front of him, like the thousand-year-old Lushui River outside the city, and like the silent and profound Xincang Mountains in the distance.

After a long while, she whispered: "I have been thinking about my childhood days these past two days."

"."

"I was really carefree at that time. I loved to go barefoot and explore the creek every day. I played wildly from morning to night. I would go back to the mountain gate and give the few large fish and shrimps I caught to Aunt Lingfei and let her make soup at night. I call my uncle to tell stories, and it’s another day like this after I wake up.” The girl looked ahead with a soft smile, “Sunny days, foggy days, rainy days, spring, autumn, winter. Every day is so fresh and happy.”

"As I got older, I started to have schoolwork." Li Mingqing lowered her eyebrows and smiled softly, "I had to study and practice swordsmanship, which was tiring and I didn't like it, so I thought every day that as long as I completed the schoolwork, I could run out and play again. At that time, those books and swords were my biggest enemies.”

"Later on, treading water to catch fish seemed childish. I thought practicing swordsmanship and studying were quite interesting. Every day I became more and more interested in practicing swordsmanship, and I kept looking forward to the next small competition. At that time, I worked hard to practice swordsmanship every day. At that time, I thought, after learning "Bi Guang", I will learn "Jade Shadow", and then "Yellow Jade". I will be done and become Cuiyu's most powerful disciple."

"Later, I learned that the mountain gate was in such a situation. Even if I learned the entire "Emerald Chapter", it might not save Cui Yu."

"But it still doesn't matter. Cui Yu's sword is really powerful, and my senior brother is also really powerful. At that time, I practiced sword harder and told my master that in five or ten years, the two of us will definitely revive Cui Yu. At that time, everyone will no longer have to worry about being destroyed by the Seven Dragons."

"Then my senior brother was killed, and Cui Yu fell into despair."

The girl looked at the cold gray sky in the early morning and was silent for a while.

"But things are still not hopeless." Li Piaoqing said, "I think it's time to take responsibility and do what my senior brother didn't do, defeat the Seven Dragon Cave, revive Cui Yu, and lead everyone from darkness to light. I must do them."

"That was the darkest period of time. I kept telling myself that I could survive it, and there was a bright future ahead." The girl said softly, "I did it."

Quiet.

Pei Ye looked at her in a daze, and suddenly felt empathy.

"But you saw that Master was seriously injured and dying, and the Happy Death Tower destroyed everything." Li Piaoqing had no expression on his face.

"So I think. The so-called victory over an enemy, surviving a period of darkness, working hard for a period of time, and then everything will be bright, this kind of thing, in fact, never exists." The girl looked at it quietly, "There is no such thing as 'returning to normal life', that is just a story in the book. The stream when I was a child has dried up, Aunt Ling remarried and went to Xiangzhou a few years ago, the appearance of my senior brothers and uncles is frozen there, and Master will soon leave forever, and the grave is lingering with grass"

"Life is such a road that will never return. It will only push deeper and heavier difficulties in front of you. You try to climb over it, not to return to the undisturbed days in the past, but to be more and more separated from them."

"Then face the next one."

The autumn morning in Bowang was quiet and cold, and the girl's voice was also very light, and her fine hair danced lightly in the morning light.

Yes.

Pei Ye thought blankly, and suddenly felt a vast cruelty.

"But I will never be defeated by it." The girl beside him whispered.

At the end of the lake, outside the high city, behind the vast mountain shadows, an orange sun was jumping up from the cold gray sky little by little. The girl looked at this scene calmly: "I will use my whole life to face this fate, endless ups and downs, every time I get hurt. I will wade through them one by one until the end of my life."

"." Pei Ye looked at her in a daze, and suddenly felt that this expression was somewhat familiar. On this morning, the girl seemed to have found her lifelong enemy.

"Do you still remember Kenshin Teru, Pei Ye."

"I remember." Pei Ye whispered.

"I remember too. You are [Mingshen], Pei Ye. Invulnerable and untainted, your mind is like a god. You will eventually crush all the darkness that comes to you." The girl tilted her head and looked at him in a trance. For the first time today, she showed a beautiful smile as usual, "I am not as powerful as you, but do you believe that [Jie Yu]'s life is also as brilliant?"

"." Pei Ye's lips trembled slightly, and his voice was hoarse, "But. Your hand."

The girl smiled again, and her cold palm touched his tense face: "It's okay, this is just the first one."

Pei Ye lowered his head, his lips moved, and his throat rolled.

".Okay," the girl whispered to comfort him again, "It's nothing--"

He suddenly stretched out his arms and hugged her deeply.

The girl's body trembled, and the slight tension and stiffness softened. She lowered her head and leaned on his chest, and half of the words were stuck in her throat.

The boy and the girl hugged each other for a long time, surrounded by only the cool lake breeze and the quietly climbing morning light.

"Pei Ye." Li Piaoqing squeezed out two words from his throat.

". Yeah."

"."

After a long silence, the girl in his arms said the second half of the sentence very softly: "We don't want to be together anymore."

Pei Ye stared at the misty and cold mountain shadows in the distance without moving.

"I can't go to Shenjing anymore, and I don't really want to go." The girl's voice was like being trapped in a hot and humid box, "I'm sorry Pei Ye, I shouldn't have disturbed you."

Pei Ye trembled slightly and opened and closed his mouth, wanting to say something, but he couldn't say anything. In fact, he knew how some things would happen, but he was still in a trance at this moment.

After a long time, he blurted out a few words in a dry voice: "Then let's wait until later--"

Two thin and cool fingers quickly covered his lips, and the girl whispered: ".Don't talk nonsense."

"." Pei Ye pursed his lips, lowered his eyes and stared at the lake in a daze.

After a long time, the girl whispered: "Okay. I brought you a gift."

She gently held his hand.

Pei Ye lowered his head. The girl untied her waist bag with one hand, and moved her elbow under the other sleeve for a moment, then paused. She still used the hand that untied the bag to take out a finger-long exquisite small sword.

Pei Ye looked straight at this scene, holding the hilt tightly.

A finger-long sword, the girl promised him on the boat that day, is indeed very beautiful. It is made of lapis lazuli, decorated with feather patterns, finely carved, and two tiny jades are inlaid in the handle.

"This is. I asked the master of the mountain gate to make it before the martial arts competition. Because it took a long time, it was just carved recently." Li Piaoqing whispered, and gently put the small sword into his hand.

Pei Ye lowered his head and took a look, but still didn't speak.

The boy's stunned look made Li Piaoqing's face tremble a little. She lowered her head and said, "That's it."

". Yeah."

Pei Ye stood quietly for a while, turned around and walked back.

"Pei Ye!"

The girl behind him suddenly grabbed his arm.

Pei Ye turned his head and saw two lines of tears from the girl's cheeks. She suddenly stepped forward and kissed him.

The moist and soft lips pressed hard, and the cool kiss went in deeply. Pei Ye was stunned by this strange feeling.

After a while, he slowly raised his hand to press the girl's thin shoulder and gently pushed her away.

"." Li Piaoqing was a little at a loss, but the boy didn't say a word.

He stood with his head down for a while, and then said in a hoarse voice: "You must pay attention to your safety in the future."

After that, he didn't look at the girl's standing figure again, and just lowered his head and slowly left here.

Pei Ye looked down at the familiar pattern of Qingshi Street, and his brain was a little stunned.

Next, I have to go to Xianrentai to see the arrangements of Wuhe Procuratorate on this case, so that I can confirm my schedule and reply to Miss Ming.

I have to explain the matter of Xiangzhou to Xianrentai about Xinbo and Zhushijiao.

Then I will say goodbye to everyone. Huansilou will not return to Bowang again. If everything goes well, he may be ready to leave tomorrow.

Black Cat said that he had to get that thing, which is also the next thing to worry about.

Of course, there is also the burning desire in his heart to find them without any purpose.

Pei Ye pursed his lips and looked straight ahead. His steps stopped. In front of him was the familiar gate of Xianrentai.

He raised his hand and pushed the door, and the hard object hit his palm.

He lowered his head, and then he remembered to put the small sword in front of him. The shape of this one is indeed different from the small wooden sword of Cuiyu standard. The green blade carved feather is the appearance of losing Cuiyu.

There are two poems engraved on the sword body. The clear and moist handwriting can be seen that it was engraved by the girl herself.

[Fortunately escaped Yu Ren’s scheme and was able to visit the gentleman’s court]