Chapter 332 Finally a step forward
From the outside, the old book building looks ordinary, without any colorful decorations, and there are no cornices and hooks. The traces left by the years, I don't know how many years have been standing in the depths of this academy, but there are no traces of decay in any detail.
And when Mo Shanshan followed Zhou Ji into the building, he found that the inside of the building was much larger than it looked from the outside, and there were countless books neatly arranged in the wide space. Zhou Ji introduced to her in a low voice that most of the books on the first floor of the old library For some collections of classics and history, the second floor is more about martial arts and practice. If she wants to go up, she can take her upstairs to have a look.
Although Mo Shanshan is quite curious about the second floor of the academy, he is only curious.
Has no intention of coveting the academy to practice exercises.
Mo Shanshan smiled lightly, shook his head and refused, and then looked at the scattered figures of students in the old library.
On the side of the window sill, next to the stairs, a desk is quietly placed in front of the window, empty, only a page of rice paper is gently swaying in the cold wind that slips in through the window.
Mo Shanshan approached the table, and the beautiful lowercase script with hairpin flowers came into view. Mo Shanshan's eyes lit up, and he secretly said "good word", and at the same time, he saw a certain character from the elegant, smooth, thin and clean lowercase script. shadow of man.
Looking back at Zhou Ji, his eyes were rippling slightly, and although he didn't speak, he seemed to be asking, 'Have you ever pointed out others like you pointed me out? '
"Hmm~ good word!"
At this time, Zhou Ji was looking at the collection of books around with nostalgia, and noticed that Mo Shanshan was walking away, so he followed him, walked around the side of the desk, came to the desk, looked at the small letters on the paper and couldn't help laughing, "Two After thirteen years of accumulation, your handwriting has improved again."
Who is Mr. Zhou talking to?
Mo Shanshan was puzzled. Before she could ask a question, she heard a strange woman's clear voice from the stairs, "You are back."
"Well, I came back yesterday." Zhou Ji didn't look up, but Mo Shanshan subconsciously looked towards the stairs.
I saw a woman dressed in academy teaching clothes, holding a book in her arms, walking slowly from the second floor, with a gentle and graceful demeanor revealing a plain alienation, as if she didn't care about everything.
The female teacher didn't ask him why he didn't come to see her until today when he came back yesterday, because the relationship between the two of them was not a joke.
The female teacher looked at the woman in white robe at the side of the desk, and said with a normal expression, "You are the Moshan Lord of Mochi Garden, right?"
"Mo Shanshan met Mr. San." Mo Shanshan hurriedly replied, and Zhou Ji smiled, "It seems that Tang Xiaotang has already told you everything about the wasteland."
Yu Lian's quiet and calm gaze finally changed, and he looked at Zhou Ji and said, "You already know?"
"I knew it from the beginning." Zhou Ji has been here for ten years at least, and he can naturally see the fluctuations in Yu Lian's mood. He shook his head and smiled, "But... are these important?"
The warm wind is warm and the ice and snow melt.
Yu Lian slightly raised the corner of her mouth, showing a faint smile, "It's really not important."
"." Standing at the side of the desk, Mo Shanshan listened in a daze, looking at the two people who looked at each other and smiled with an unspeakable tacit understanding.
Zhou Ji turned his head and glanced at Mo Shanshan, stepped aside from the table, and said to Yu Lian, "Master Mo Shan came to the academy for the first time, and I will take her around first, and come to see you if I have free time."
Yu Lian nodded slightly, passed by Mo Shanshan, returned to the table and continued to draw regular script.
Zhou Ji took a few steps towards Mo Shanshan, covered her mouth and ears, and whispered, "It's okay, her personality is just like this, she looks gentle and quiet, but in fact, strangers should not enter, just get used to it."
Yu Lian raised her eyes and stared at Zhou Ji, Zhou Ji shrugged, straightened up and said, "Let's go, Shan Shan, I'll take you to the back mountain of the academy."
Seeing Zhou Ji walking away, Mo Shanshan gave Yu Lian an apologetic smile, lifted the corner of his clothes and hurriedly followed.
For a while, the sound of gasping for a long time resounded from all over the old library.
Behind the bookshelves, a few students' heads poked out, and under the cover of the books, they peeked at Zhou Ji and Mo Shanshan who were walking away.
When Zhou Ji brought Mo Shanshan into the old library, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the situation of these two people was not right. You must know that the interesting talk about Mr. Zhou and Yu Jiaoxi lighting stone lamps in the front yard had spread throughout the academy.
Although the two have never confirmed their relationship, and they have never had any intimacy and arrogance, but among the students and teachers, the two factions of "confidant" and "ambiguous" are very quarreling.
However, this old library that came from nowhere was on duty, and suddenly disappeared one day. When he returned to the academy, he brought another beautiful woman with a dusty temperament to meet Yu Jiaoxi.
Just now, these people huddled behind the bookshelves and didn't even dare to take a breath, for fear that they would miss the upcoming "swords on the verge of breaking out".
It's a pity that until Mr. Zhou and Mo Shanzhu left, they didn't have what they wanted to see.
Just at the moment of regret, a shadow suddenly emerged from the bookshelf, blocking everyone's sight.
The hearts of these people thumped at the same time. Faced with the cold and indifferent eyes behind the bookshelf, they were so frightened that they escaped from behind the bookshelf, apologized to Yu Lian repeatedly, put down the ancient books in their hands, and ran out of the door as if fleeing for their lives. go.
'horrible! terrible! Yu Jiaoxi has murderous intent in his eyes! '
Walking in the snow, although the sky is clear, it seems to be colder than yesterday.
Mo Shanshan tugged at the white velvet cloak, glanced at the few students who hurried past beside him, and looked back, the two of them had walked a long way from the old library, and two rows of parallel footprints stretched out on the messy snow until A lonely ancient library in the garden.
"Since Mr. Zhou has worked as a sweeper in the old bookstore for ten years, he must be very familiar with Mr. San just now?"
"Why do you ask that?" Zhou Ji asked suspiciously, "Although she and I have known each other for ten years, we have never chatted about our personal affairs.
Familiar? friend? How can I say that there are some uncertainties? "
"Then what about me?" Mo Shanshan stopped, rolled up his hair that was blown by the cold wind, raised his head slightly, his eyes under the lens contained the whole world of ice and snow, and in this world, there was only Zhou Ji alone.
"us."
Before Zhou Ji could answer, Mo Shanshan took a step forward with his lips tightly pursed like a red line, his eyes didn't drift or disperse at all, he was calm and focused like never before. "I said I liked you when I left the wasteland."
Zhou Ji was taken aback by Mo Shanshan's sudden action. Seeing her approaching, he subconsciously took half a step back. Hearing what she said, he just replied, "Well, I remember."
Mo Shanshan took another step forward. The two parallel rows of footprints became messy, and the footprints on the snow overlapped. Mo Shanshan seemed to muster up his courage and asked, "What about you? Do you like me?"
Looking at the stubbornness and uneasiness in Mo Shanshan's eyes, Zhou Jing revealed a soft light in his eyes, and said with a soft smile, "I think I told you? I like you too."
Quiet, silent.
Mo Shanshan didn't continue to ask Zhou Ji whether he liked the female teacher better or himself.
Once some questions are asked, there is no way out.
If she hadn't just seen the tacit understanding between him and Yu Lian, she might not be in a hurry to speak again to confirm Zhou Ji's feelings for her.
On the other side, in Chang'an City, near Forty-seventh Lane.
Ning Que returned from outside the city with Sangsang. As soon as he arrived at the alley, he saw a short-haired monk holding a wooden staff coming from the stone steps by the side of the road, blocking him and Sangsang.
"Dare to ask, but Mr. Thirteen from the academy?"
Ning Que was taken aback for a moment, looked him up and down, and asked doubtfully, "Who is this master?"
"Little monk Lan Ke watching the sea." The monk had a generous and peaceful demeanor, saluted with one hand, and smiled at Ning Que.
Lanke is an unknowable place of Tianqingzong. It is placed on the second floor of Ru Academy of the Tang Dynasty, and it is placed in the Zhishou Temple of Rudaozong in Xiling. I'm sorry~ I don't know what is the important thing for Senior Brother Guan Hai to come to Chang'an?"
"My little monk has some difficulties in practice, and I would like to ask Mr. Thirteen to give me some advice." Guan Hai had a gentle expression, but the words he said made Ning Que's expression change slightly.
Taking a deep look at Guan Hai, Ning Que already had a guess in his heart, and said, "In that case, please brother Guan Hai come with me."
"Master." Sangsang vaguely sensed that the monk was coming in a bad way, and pulled Laning Que's sleeve, showing a worried look.
Ning Que patted the back of Sangsang's hand, and said with a smile, "It's okay, it's just a discussion. Sangsang, you go back to Xinbi Studio and wait for me. Brother Guanhai and I will go back."
Ning Que said, nodding slightly towards Guan Hai, and stretched out his hand to signal, 'Please'.
Guan Hai bowed to Ning Que, and followed him towards the academy outside the city.
Ice and snow cover, mountain roads are difficult.
Zhou Ji led Mo Shanshan to the summit from the front mountain of the academy assessment. There was no formation restraint. Although there was no need to pass the three passes like the assessment, the mountain road was extremely difficult due to heavy snow.
In fact, as early as the few months in the wasteland, everyone had already adapted to this kind of slippery mountain road covered with ice and snow. Zhou Ji was walking on the ground, but Mo Shanshan couldn't see him for a long time. When he turned around, he saw a slender trembling He stretched out his arms towards him, his white fingertips stayed in the air and slightly opened, Mo Shanshan looked down at the ice layer in front of the skirt, suddenly a mass of warmth that was so warm that he was about to melt Wrapped in the palm of his hand, he leaned forward and was pulled a step by Zhou Ji.
"The mountain road is rugged, so be careful where you step."
"Hmm~" Mo Shanshan was dizzy, felt the temperature of Zhou Ji's palm, looked up at Zhou Ji's back all the way, until Zhou Ji stopped and almost ran into his arms, then he realized.
"We've arrived."
Zhou Ji pointed to the lakes and mountains in the distance that are like spring all the year round, and said with a smile, "Here, that's where the master and the gentlemen live."
From the wasteland to Chang'an, the eternal night is approaching, and the cold wave is moving southward. What Mo Shanshan saw along the way were either forests, seas, snowfields or the Gobi. The waterfall mirror lake filled with white smoke and mist was quite shocking for a while.
"This is the real academy?"
Zhou Ji raised his eyebrows and said, "If the second floor of the academy is the real academy, then this is it."
Mo Shanshan said softly, "For practitioners, the unknowable place is beyond the secular world above the clouds and cannot be touched. Although the academy is the only holy place that is accessible to both generations, how many people can come here to see it for themselves? I didn’t expect that after meeting you, I would advance to the Demon Sect’s mountain gate and then come to the back mountain of the academy, which is really a bit lucky.”
"These so-called unknowable places are just mysteries created by deliberate propaganda. I went to the Zhishou Temple before I came to the academy. It's just a few houses and a lake. It's not as exaggerated as you imagined."
Zhou Ji shook his head and chuckled, "If you have time, I can take you to Xuankong Temple and Zhishou Temple to check in, and visit the rare 'unknown place' in the world."
"Punch in?"
As early as when he was in the wasteland, Mo Shanshan often heard Zhou Ji and Ning Que say some strange words, and he understood after a little thought in his heart, and said with a smile, "As long as you are with the young master, Shanshan is free at any time."
Zhou Ji touched his nose and coughed lightly, turned his head to look at the distant mountains, and said casually, "I met me, and I will meet many lucky things in the future."
Although it was a casual sentence, it also concealed some slightly sweet meanings. If they stay together forever, there will naturally be more. The girl's eyelashes shone slightly in the morning light. While Mo Shanshan felt ashamed, more Still happy.
"I don't know if the master is in the back mountain at the moment, let's go, I will take you to the back mountain for a stroll." Zhou Ji narrowed his eyes and looked at the distant Yaping.
Mo Shanshan suddenly thought of something, shook his head, and said with a smile, "Since the master asked Mr. Da to invite the young master, he naturally has a lot to say. It's getting late today, and I have to go back to the capital to deal with other things. Young Master, let’s go alone.”
"Master, don't be in a hurry, shall I take you back first?" Zhou Ji smiled.
Mo Shanshan's eyes wandered, as if afraid of being discovered by Zhou Ji, he refused again and again.
Zhou Ji saw that Mo Shanshan was hiding something, so he had no choice but to say, "Well, be careful on the road alone. The forces in the capital of the Tang Dynasty are intricate. If you encounter any difficult problems that cannot be solved, you must tell me."
Looking at Zhou Ji's concerned eyes, Mo Shanshan's heart warmed up, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and he nodded, "I know."
"Be careful on the road."
"Um"
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After a moment of silence, Zhou Ji saw that Mo Shanshan had not left for a long time, showing doubts, and followed her downward gaze, only then did he notice that the two of them were still holding hands since they went up the mountain.
The softness as thin as fat made Zhou Ji forget this incident in a trance, until he lowered his head to meet Shang Mo Shanshan's slightly shy eyes, and then he realized that he reluctantly let go of his palm, retracted it into his sleeve, and held it again. Said, "Be careful on the road."
"Hmm~"
Mo Shanshan bowed his head in shame, speechless, turned around and took a few steps, and disappeared into the rugged and difficult mountain road like a bird of surprise.
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(end of this chapter)