Dappled moonlight obscures the heart.

On Zhongling Mountain, the pear blossoms look like clusters of goose feathers dotting the branches, the fragrance of the blossoms is light, and the sound of birds is endless.

"Creak--" the wooden door of the small courtyard was pushed open, the sunlight was in full bloom, Xu You squinted on the bamboo collapse, sat up at the sound, looked up, "So soon back, how was it this time? "

Xun Yin and Mingjiao Ye stepped into the courtyard one after the other, Xun Yin nodded slightly, Xu You looked at Mingjiao Ye and wondered what he was thinking about, it was rare for him to be so distracted and quiet.

Xun Yin looked at Mingjiao Ye.

Xu You: "Mingjiao Ye?"

Mingjiao Ye came back to his senses, recovered his usual appearance, grinning, "Master, I can finally come back to see you, you don't know how ferocious that Rock Tree Demon is, if it wasn't for Senior Brother coming, I would have had my bones trampled by it ...... "

Listening to him rattle off a lot of words, like a child coming home from school and telling the headmaster everything that happened at school, Xu You couldn't help but smile, "It's good to come home safe and sound from a job well done."

Mingjiao Ye's tone was exaggerated, as if he were telling a comic opera: "And that rotting frog demon, but it's so ugly, even uglier than the mud puddles I've plowed, it's rotten."

Xu You: "Ha ha ha, why are you going to dig a mud pit."

"It's a long story, back in the day ......"

Xun Yin raised his eyes and abruptly picked up the scabbard and started beating Mingjiao Ye again.

Mingjiao Ye monkey-like scurrying all over the yard: "Eh, senior brother gently, my bones have not yet grown strong."

"Ouch, I know it's wrong to do things with fewer words."

"Fine, fine, I'll cut the crap, I'll go to the mountain springs and get a rubdown first."

After saying that, Mingjiao Ye ran away in a huff.

Xu You had already seen this kind of daily interaction between their master and brother, she even suspected that Mingjiao Ye had a masochistic tendency, why did she feel that he liked to be picked up by Xun Yin so much, and that he was closer to Xun Yin than he was to her as his master.

Later she thought about it, and then can explain it, the two encounter like similar, Mingjiao Ye inevitably have sympathy for each other, and than the master, or the identity of the senior brother is more people close, Xun Yin although always cold face to him, but also helped him clean up a lot of mess.

Noticing Xun Yin's gaze, Xu You lifted his eyebrows lightly, "What's wrong?"

Xun Yin looked at the smile still on her lips before dropping her eyes and saying, "It's nothing."

Compared to Mingjiao Ye, who has all her emotions written on her face, Xun Yin, who doesn't move at all, is really hard to guess, and Xu You thinks that the older Xun Yin gets, the harder it is to guess him.

When he was a teenager, he only had two small wishes, as small as the dim and bright stars in the sky, not wishing to be discovered, but hoping that someone would notice, one was that she wouldn't drive him away, and the other was that he would be rewarded by her for his hard work in cultivation - the pear flower cake.

The current him was more introverted than he had been in his previous lives, and everything was hidden as much as it could be, making it difficult to figure out.

--

Valley of the Monsters does not seem to have produced a single ripple, but only Xun Yin is suffering alone, the images in the mirror lake are deeply memorized, and countless days and nights wake him up with a dream, unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

Lust was screaming and boiling, reason was restraining and suppressing.

Xun Yin seldom met Xu You's eyes again, but always secretly watched her back when she was out of sight.

He had thought that as long as he didn't tell, as long as he hid it well, as long as it was kept from outsiders, the two of them would be able to spend the rest of their lives together in this courtyard.

But it didn't.

He also assumed that she would not take on any more disciples, that she would not be distracted by others.

But it didn't either.

" Xun Yin, you go to Lianshan Broken Heng and bring someone back, that person is your new little sister," Xu You said, "Go and come back quickly, I calculate that she is in trouble, don't let anything happen to her."

Finally there is news of the heroine Qinguan Ye, the Ye family is good at refining weapons, a quarter of the magic weapons in the cultivation world are produced by the Ye family, but the Ye family itself is not strong enough, piles of magic weapons in the barn, in the eyes of some people with improper intentions is the sin of having the wrong thing in the wrong place.

So the Jian Sect, which has always been a great fan of provocation in the cultivation world, moved in the night, and the flames reflected the red half of the sky.

Qinguan Ye was collecting materials in Lianshan Broken Cross this time, thus escaping from death, the last transmission from the family let her know all the situation, she was full of hatred, but before she could leave Broken Cross, she was surrounded by the people of the Jian Sect.

Luckily, the Ye family and the Vulture fairy gatehouse have a longstanding friendship. Before his death, the head of the Ye family sent a message to the Vulture Fairy, asking them to send someone to save Qinguan Ye, who was Xu You's original body, and happened to see that Qinguan Ye was suitable for cultivating immortality, so he took him on as a disciple.

Stream sect acting high profile and domineering is also a reason, the reason is the strength, it is the cultivation world ranked fourth sect, of course, is qualified to call the shots, and the cultivation world of the sect less magic abyss kind of camp, are sweeping the door in front of their own snow, so the Ye family in distress, the surrounding sects see the fire can not be burned in their own head, they do not aid not to intervene.

Just like the Vulture fairy gatehouse that took Qinguan Ye in, the Jian Sect also didn't dare to come forward to ask a question, but the leader of the Vulture fairy gatehouse, under the leadership of Wuli Song, rarely meddled in the affairs of the sect. If it wasn't for Xu You who wanted to take him as his disciple, Qinguan Ye wouldn't have been able to enter the Vulture Fairy gatehouse.

This time Xu You didn't plan to go, but let Xun Yin go instead, this is after all a chance for a hero to save a beauty, maybe they can fall in love at first sight and develop quickly, and also reduce the risk of Xun Yin falling into the devil's path.

Only ......

"Click-"

Xun Yin was silent as she squeezed her teacup and clicked it.

Xu You likes to drink sweet wine, while Xun Yin prefers strong, bitter tea, so there is often a mix of wine and tea cups on the stone table, and Mingjiao Ye initially thought that her brother drank wine, while her master loved tea.

"What's wrong?" Xu You looked up at him.

Xun Yin's thin lips pursed, eyes lowered, in the brown tea, saw the bitterness and pain in the bottom of his eyes, so thick that it was hard to dissolve.

He drank it all in one gulp, all the emotions along with the bitter taste going back and forth in his chest in a thousand directions, finally becoming two words, "Nothing."

Xun Yin got up and disappeared, appearing at the foot of Zhongling Mountain, the porcelain tiles cracked into several pieces dug deep into his palm, the veins on the back of his hand bulged, his knuckles trembled, but the pain was not as bad as the pain he felt in his heart.

......

"Master, what's wrong with you, this wine is spilling out." Mingjiao Ye came back from the forest with some bird feathers, both white and yellow, stuck to his head.

He saw his master sitting at the stone table out of his mind, half noticing him, and his expression was not quite so good that he could pour a drink all over his hand.

Xu You came back to God, only then noticed that the wine overflowed out of the wine cup, wet her robe, she put down the wine pot as if it was unintentional, gently flicked her sleeve, the wine lost the sleeve dry, as if the party had never happened.

Mingjiao Ye didn't think too much about it and his attention quickly shifted, "Where's my eldest brother?"

Xu You : "He went to bring someone back, you're ready to have a little sister."

"Really?" Mingjiao Ye instantly smiled and grinned, "Then won't I be a senior brother too, I don't know if Junior Sister likes birds or not, no, I have to make another trip to the forest to catch a beautiful one to gift her to raise."

When he finished, he ran off again with gusto.

Xun Yin now almost to the Lianshan broken horizontal strike, Xu You stared blankly at the empty wine cup, as if seeing their own empty heart.

--

It was night, with orange candlelight coming through the windows, falling hazily in the courtyard, and the occasional twittering of birds.

Mingjiao Ye sat on the wooden steps in front of the house, stretched his neck and looked out the door, occasionally teasing the bird in his hand.

After another few moments, Mingjiao Ye's eyes lit up, violently turning his head and shouting at the house, "Master, senior brother is back with his little sister!"

Xu You put down the traveler's journal, walked out of the study, and said towards them, "Why don't you come in?"

Xun Yin stood beside the pear tree at the entrance, Qinguan Ye did not have a yard, Mingjiao Ye ran over to him with a heave and a huff and said enthusiastically, "I heard that you are also surnamed Ye, even though this is not my birth name, it is destiny for me to become a senior sibling, do you like this little bird? I will give it to you."

Qinguan Ye, who was in a sorry state and had just experienced the destruction of his family, was extremely depressed and said woodenly, "Thank you."

Mingjiao Ye looked at her red and swollen eyes, and withdrew his outstretched hand in a mute voice.

Xu You walked to the door, said in a warm voice: "I already know, in the future, this is your place of refuge, to protect you from the bloody storm, to give you a side of purity, are you willing to be my disciple?"

Qinguan Ye lowered his head and abruptly knelt down, "Many thanks to the left house master for saving my life, I am unable to return the favor, I know that I am not highly enlightened, and it is difficult to carve rotten wood, so I am unwilling to let the left house master take more trouble."

Xu You froze, what was destined to be has become unexpected, it is really a call for people to be caught off guard for a moment.

Mingjiao Ye was even more incredulous, and anxiously asked, "Why ah, my master is especially good, will definitely treat you well, will also protect you, unlike the other masters of the Gate House that is so harsh and old-fashioned, worshipping my master, you will definitely not regret it, believe me!"

Qinguan Ye didn't say anything.

Xu You reached out to help her up and asked, "Why? Can you give me a reason, or is there something you're hiding?"

Seeing Qinguan Ye biting his lower lip and not saying anything, Xu You added, "Just mention anything you need and I'll try my best to fulfill it."

Qinguan Ye : "It's my personal problem, and it's not right to become a disciple of Lord Zuo Fu like this."

Mingjiao Ye continued to persuade, "This is fine, both Elder Brother and I became the House Master's disciples first, and then went for a step-by-step examination."

Her reasoning was not justified, and Mingjiao Ye was extremely puzzled as to why she did not want to become Xu You's disciple, and could not help but blatantly speak up for Xu You.

"What I worship and admire is the Right Reverend Master," Qinguan Ye said, "I would like to start with the third level of examination, and if I am fortunate enough to pass the layers of examination, I will go and worship under the Right Reverend Master."

Mingjiao Ye anxious, a pat on the thigh said: "aiya little sister ah, the right master of that person is not as good as my master to talk, disciples a whole lot of have never met."

He was still planning to continue grinding his teeth, imparting experience to the newcomer and opening up his mind, when Xu You said, "Alright, I understand, Mingjiao Ye, you send her down the mountain to the lodging hall to settle down."

The master had said so, Mingjiao Ye could only stop, "Let's go."

Qinguan Ye bowed to Xu You again before following him out.

Xu You looked towards Xun Yin who was standing in the shadow of the tree and had been silent all the time. After ten years of being a master and disciple, he more or less shared the same feelings, and he understood Xu You's intention of supporting Mingjiao Ye, so he stood still for a moment and didn't move.

"What did you say to her?" Xu You asked.

What exactly did he say to Qinguan Ye that made her so adamant about not worshipping under Xu You, preferring to start at the third level of examination and go to Wuli Song as her master, but also rejecting Xu You again and again .

At that exact moment, the evening wind blew through, the pear tree leaves soughing, his face were hidden in the shadows, making it difficult to discern his expression.

Reticence for a long time.

"Xun Yin!" Xu You had never called him in such an aggravated tone before.

If Qinguan Ye, the key character, were to learn from him, I don't know how much the plot would fall apart.

"Bang--" Xun Yin suddenly slammed his fist on the tree trunk, and pear blossoms fell like snow.

The wind stopped.

"Master." This sound suppressed so many complex emotions that the tone was not the usual clear and moist, becoming low and hoarse.

After a moment of silence, he added, "Am I not good enough."

"Is it something I'm not doing well enough, please Master tell me I can change, I can do my best."

His words were bitter to the extreme, making Xu You's heart shrink with acidity.

Xun Yin is decisive, calm, talented and hardworking, and has become the most outstanding disciple of Vulture fairy gatehouse in just a few years, and she has never been worried about anything big or small.

Xu You pursed his lips, not knowing what to say, and only sighed silently.

"But why does Master ......" He paused and said in a hard voice, "And to take on disciples."

The moonlight was cut into slices by the branches and leaves, falling dappledly on his shoulders, resembling his obscure and broken heart at this moment.

A moment of silence.

Xun Yin lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "Disciple knows that he is wrong, disciple should not overstep his bounds."

"Master rest early, tomorrow disciple will go to the punishment hall to receive his punishment."

When he finished, he entered the courtyard.

Xu You stood quietly under this pear tree in front of the door for a long time, and then she approached, raised her hand, and her fingertips touched a fist-smashed hollow in the trunk.

There's wet sticky blood in there.

Like like who, emptied of heart.