"Does it smell good? It's just that old man who doesn't know his stuff."
Ouyang Ke muttered and returned, "What you're asking is really strange. This is my home. It's not normal for me to be here."
"This is your home?"
Gong Yueyue looked at Ouyang Ke in disbelief. There was really no part of his body that matched this Tianxiang Pavilion. He was completely out of place, right?
And this cabin is really out of place.
"What do you mean, believe it or not."
Ouyang Ke felt uncomfortable when he saw the look in Gong Yueyue's eyes. The look in his eyes was exactly the same as when the old man usually said that he had no trace of the old man at all. He looked completely disbelieving.
Doubt is contempt.
"Oh, what are you doing? This sweet potato is ripe. Take it out quickly!"
Gong Yueyue didn't notice Zhao Changyuan's whisper at all. Instead, she saw Ouyang Ke put a piece of charcoal on the obviously ripe sweet potato, and she muttered anxiously.
Not only that, Gong Yueyue also snatched the iron rod from Ouyang Ke's hand and pulled out the ripe sweet potato.
"You woman, do you know whether men and women are close to each other?"
Ouyang Ke never expected Gong Yueyue's move. He was so frightened that he took a few steps back. He said something about men and women not being intimate, and his ears hidden behind his hair turned red.
Gong Yueyue was a little embarrassed when Ouyang Ke said this.
But who told Ouyang Ke to waste the roasted sweet potatoes? She was just too anxious.
"Hey, you are too strange, aren't you? Let me ask you, why are you here?" Ouyang Ke asked strangely, and whispered in a low voice, "The old man's guests can't come here."
Gong Yueyue is a little hungry. She just ate a little snack in the morning, and now she is already hungry.
She first peeled off the skin of the sweet potato, revealing the golden flesh of the sweet potato, which exuded a sweet smell.
Gong Yueyue swallowed her saliva, and then said, "I followed my young master here, but accidentally lost him. I smelled the scent of sweet potatoes, and followed the scent and came here."
After saying that, Gong Yueyue took a bite of the sweet potato meat. It was soft in the mouth and left a fragrant aroma in her mouth. It was truly delicious! Gong Yueyue squinted her eyes in enjoyment.
Ouyang Ke's appetite was aroused by Gong Yueyue's appearance, so he dug up the sweet potato meat and ate it.
After a while, three or four sweet potatoes were taken care of by two people.
Ouyang Ke stood up and said, "You are lucky to have met me, otherwise you would have been trapped in the Bagua array until you died."
"Bagua array?"
Gong Yueyue had heard about the Bagua Formation. People who don't know how to break the formation will be trapped in it if they enter it by mistake, but those who set up the formation always know how to get out, right? How could she be trapped in it?
Ouyang Ke didn't say anything more, just smiled slyly, "This is no ordinary Bagua array!"
Thinking of Ouyang Ke's weird bone-shrinking skill, Gong Yueyue also started to believe it.
"Let's go. Your young master must still be at the old man's place. I'll take you to the old man's place."
Even if the name Shangguan Han is mentioned, no one will know that it is Zhao Changyuan.
As the white-haired old man finished speaking, Zhao Changyuan dropped the black stones in his hand onto the chessboard. At first glance, the chessboard looked evenly matched, with neither top nor bottom, but the white stones were reasonably distributed and advanced and retreated in a measured manner. The black stones were dangerously close.
You have to guard your own one-third of an acre of land. If you are not careful, your entire army may be wiped out.
Zhao Changyuan really had no intention of playing on the chessboard.
He originally thought that he could easily find Gong Yueyue as long as he met the master of Tianxiang Pavilion, the old man in front of him. But this was not the case.
"The Bagua array in Tianxiang Pavilion was set up by the first pavilion master of Tianxiang Pavilion. From the foundation, it was created for the Bagua array. To be precise, the entire Tianxiang Pavilion is a huge Bagua array."
The old man lost another piece, and proudly ate a few of Zhao Changyuan's pieces, and then said, "The Bagua array changes randomly. I entered the array by myself, and it is easy to get out. But your maid is trapped in the Bagua array.
I don’t know where she is. How can I bring her out?”
He smiled again and said, "It's true that a hero has a hard time with beauty. I never thought that Mr. Shangguan would one day lose his mind frequently because of a woman in the chess game!"
The old man sighed, seeming to be recalling his past years. Perhaps it was his passion in youth that won a beauty's smile, or his anger that made her a beauty. These are all stories of the old man, no one knows.
He shook his head again, perhaps sighing at the impulsiveness of his youth.
Zhao Changyuan ignored it and began to focus on the chessboard.
It's not to win his own rare set of heaven and earth Othello, but because the old man said that if Zhao Changyuan can win the chess game, then the old man is willing to help find it in this huge Bagua array. If Zhao Changyuan loses,
It is necessary to leave the exquisite black and white chess piece of heaven and earth behind.
As for Gong Yueyue, according to what the master of Tianxiang Pavilion said, she was just used as peony fertilizer. And every year, there are countless people who forcefully break into Tianxiang Pavilion and eventually become peony fertilizer. One more person makes no difference to him.
Dynasties have changed, but Tianxiang Pavilion has always existed. How can the master of Tianxiang Pavilion be bad at chess? What's more, Zhao Changyuan often loses focus because he is worried about Gong Yueyue.
It's only noon now, and the time for three sticks of incense has not yet come, but Zhao Changyuan is getting more and more difficult. But the master of Tianxiang Pavilion is leisurely and at ease.
Almost as soon as Zhao Changyuan made his move, he followed him closely. Even in his spare time, he took a few sips of tea from the side or stroked his precious beard.
"What a beautiful butterfly!"
Gong Yueyue sighed.
"Let's go quickly. If you don't hurry up, the butterfly will fly away. This is not an ordinary butterfly, it is a unique guide butterfly of Tianxiang Pavilion. Only by relying on it can you reach the inside of Tianxiang Pavilion!"
Ouyang Ke said somewhat impatiently, but he was still quite patient. Even though his tone was impatient, he still explained to Gong Yueyue.
Only then did Gong Yueyue understand why Ouyang Ke had caught the butterfly in his hand just now. It turned out that it was because he wanted to wait for himself, so he stopped to prevent the butterfly from flying away.
Gong Yueyue said no more. She followed Ouyang Ke closely and started running completely.
But her speed was already slow, and no matter how hard she tried, she would not become faster all of a sudden. She thought to herself, what kind of guiding butterfly is this? It flies so fast, which customer can keep up?
In fact, what Gong Yueyue doesn't know is that there are several types of guiding butterflies. Some are designed to guide men, and some are used to guide women. The speeds are naturally different.
And the guiding butterfly in Ouyang Ke's hand is very fast. After all, Ouyang Ke is a martial arts practitioner. Even without Qinggong, he can walk faster than ordinary men. If he were asked to use a guiding butterfly that flies very slowly, I'm afraid it would
He himself can't stand it!
But now the problem comes, Gong Yueyue can't keep up with Ouyang Ke at all.
Seeing that Ouyang Ke was getting further and further away, Gong Yueyue had no choice but to shout loudly, "Ouyang Ke, slow down! Wait for me!"
Ouyang Ke once again grabbed the guiding butterfly in his hand. He turned around and saw that Gong Yueyue was three feet away from him! He sighed and said, "Why are you so slow?"
"Wait, what did you call me just now?"
Ouyang Ke walked up to Gong Yueyue and asked.
Only then did Gong Yueyue remember that she called out Ouyang Ke's name out of desperation, but from beginning to end, Ouyang Ke never revealed his name in Tianxiang Pavilion.
Ouyang Ke's gaze was so intense that he couldn't let Gong Yueyue cover it up. Moreover, he looked like he had clearly heard it, but he just didn't believe it and wanted to confirm it.
Gong Yueyue could only murmur, "Ouyang Ke."
Ouyang Ke walked around Gong Yueyue and looked at her carefully.
Gong Yueyue was looked at with horror, but she didn't know what to say. First of all, Gong Yueyue had concealed it herself, and secondly, she was now asking for help from others.
"So it's you, Gong Qing, why are you here?"
Ouyang Ke just didn't look carefully before, but now he recognized it when he looked seriously.
"How did you recognize it?" Now it was Gong Yueyue's turn to be surprised.
The reason why Ouyang Ke recognized Gong Yueyue quickly was because he smelled that Gong Yueyue smelled the same as Gong Qing.
Ouyang Ke asked, "Isn't Gong Qing your real name?"
It was fate that the two met again. Gong Yueyue nodded, "Yes, Gong Qing is just the name I used when I disguised myself as a man. My real name is Gong Yueyue."
"Gong Yueyue?" Ouyang Ke read and laughed, "This really doesn't live up to its name. Aren't you gentle?" As he said that, Ouyang Ke looked Gong Yueyue up and down, with an intriguing smile on his lips.
laugh.
Of course Gong Yueyue knew what Ouyang Ke was laughing at. Wasn't it because she had just snatched the sweet potato meat from him? How could a grown man still hold grudges over such a small amount of food?
Of course, Gong Yueyue automatically ignored the fact that she was sweating on her forehead and panting like an ox because she was running.
"Let's go, let's go, I've had enough rest."
Gong Yueyue urged, she was afraid that if she stayed any longer, Ouyang Ke would speak shockingly again. Anyway, Ouyang Ke cannot be viewed with ordinary people's eyes.
"Okay! Let's go!"
Ouyang Ke shouted with a smile, and when he released his palms, the guiding butterfly seemed to be bored, and flapped its wings and flew very fast.
Gong Yueyue felt that something bad was about to happen, and she felt a little uneasy.
Sure enough, the next moment, she felt herself rising into the sky.
"Put me down quickly..."
Gong Yueyue shouted. But her voice was drowned in the wind.
The wind hurt her face, and she couldn't see everything clearly. She couldn't care about anything else anymore, she could only hold Ouyang Ke tightly and bury her face in Ouyang Ke's chest.
I don’t know how long it took, but the wind seemed to have stopped.
But Gong Yueyue remained motionless, her feet did not touch the ground at all. Sure enough, she carefully raised her head and saw that she was still in mid-air.
"ah!"
Gong Yueyue was so frightened that she buried her head in Ouyang Ke's chest again.
"Ha ha!"
Ouyang Ke laughed, his chest heaving.
"Put me down quickly!"
Gong Yueyue's voice was muffled.
"you sure?"
Ouyang Ke asked jokingly. As he spoke, he loosened his hand and Gong Yueyue fell down.
At this moment, Gong Yueyue couldn't even scream. She just became stupid. There was only one thought in her head, I must be dead.
So when Ouyang Ke held her and landed safely on the ground, Gong Yueyue asked stupidly, "Am I dead?"
After hearing this, Ouyang Ke laughed again, "You're not dead. How could you be dead as long as I, Ouyang Ke, are here? You'd be looking down on me."
Gong Yueyue finally came back to her senses, looked around and asked, "Where is this place?"
"This is where the old man meets his guests!"
Ouyang Ke shrugged his shoulders.
As he spoke, Ouyang Ke seemed to have thought of something and asked Gong Yueyue, "What is your young master's name?"
Gong Yueyue didn't know what the name had to do with where she was looking for someone, and she wasn't looking for someone on the street.
Gong Yueyue didn't know Zhao Changyuan's name, but she remembered that when she entered Tianxiang Pavilion, the kid in charge seemed to call Zhao Changyuan "Shangguan Gongzi."
So Gong Yueyue said, "My young master's surname is Shangguan."
"Shangguan?" Ouyang Ke frowned and said to himself, "Could it be him?"
"Did your young master bring a chess set?" Ouyang Ke gestured, "It's the kind of black and white Go, but it's not the ordinary kind..."
He frowned, as if he was distressed because he couldn't explain clearly. But Gong Yueyue suddenly remembered it and asked, "But Othello?"
"Yes, yes, it is what heaven and earth are, what exquisiteness." Ouyang Ke clapped his hands, "That's right, come with me!"
Ouyang Ke led the way, and Gong Yueyue followed closely.
After turning a few corners, he saw a wall made of vines in front of him. However, Ouyang Ke did not avoid it, but went straight through it.
What was even more surprising was that Ouyang Ke did not encounter any obstacles, but walked directly through the wall, and soon disappeared.
Gong Yueyue had no time to hesitate, and with a cruel heart, she also hit the wall directly. But she found that it was not a wall, it was just a cover-up.
After passing through the wall, I looked back to see where there was some kind of wall, and I could clearly see the way I came.
At this moment, there was a wall standing in front of Gong Yueyue. It was more like a huge chessboard than a wall.
Ouyang Ke shrugged and said, "It seems I can only help you so far."
"The old man is playing chess with your young master! According to the old man's usual practice, they won't come out unless they win two out of three games."
"But it shouldn't take long. Looking at the chess game, your young master should be losing soon."
Ouyang Ke said with a bit of schadenfreude.
Gong Yueyue looked at the chessboard. Although her chess skills were not very good, she could still see that Heizi was at a disadvantage and was about to lose.
"How do you know that the person holding the black man's head is my young master?" and not the old man you mentioned?
Of course, both sides knew what was left unfinished.
Ouyang Ke didn't care at all what Gong Yueyue didn't finish. He said that he was an old man, and he didn't care what other people called the master of Tianxiang Pavilion.
"It's the rule for guests to hold black pieces!"
Ouyang Ke smiled and said, "There's no point in just waiting. Why don't I take you somewhere else?"
As soon as Ouyang Ke finished speaking, the smile on his face turned into surprise. He saw the huge chessboard in front of him moving slowly and opening. But according to the chess game just now, it was impossible to end so early.
Gong Yueyue was also stunned by this scene. She didn't expect that she just moved a chess piece. How could the chessboard open?
"Hey, old man, you are really good at hiding, you are really easy to find!"
Ouyang Ke stepped forward and interrupted the old man's laughter.
The old man turned around and looked with doubts in his eyes, "Is it you who changed the chess game?"
"What kind of chess game is not a chess game?" Ouyang Ke didn't understand at all, so he muttered and added, "Your guiding butterfly left someone behind. I happened to meet him and brought him here for you."
Ouyang Ke added, "Old man, don't stare at the flowers or chess all day long, and make such an important mistake in guiding the butterflies. Be careful that no guests will come to your door next time."
"You kid, you really deserve a beating. There are so many people in my Tianxiang Pavilion that they can't get in even if they try to get in. You are the only one who doesn't know how blessed you are even though you are surrounded by blessings!"
The white-haired old man said with an indulgent tone. Only then did he see Gong Yueyue standing next to Ouyang Ke.
He narrowed his eyes and said with a smile, "You must be Mr. Shangguan's personal maid, right? You are indeed beautiful, no wonder you miss her so much."
"It would indeed be a pity for such a beauty to get flower fertilizer."
Gong Yueyue felt that although the white-haired old man was old, he spoke very frivolously and made people uncomfortable. She walked to Zhao Changyuan and bowed briefly, "Sir."
"Are you OK?"
Zhao Changyuan finally calmed down at this moment.
Gong Yueyue shook her head,
Zhao Changyuan looked Gong Yueyue up and down again, and then he felt relieved when he saw that she was indeed fine. He turned around and started chatting with the white-haired old man.
"Pavilion Master, I wonder who this is?"
Zhao Changyuan carefully observed Ouyang Ke, but Ouyang Ke was upright and did not avoid any taboos. He looked at Zhao Changyuan from beginning to end, and the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up.
"Young Master Shangguan, a certain Ouyang Ke, is just a common man, not as noble as Young Master Shangguan. It's just that Young Master Shangguan seems to lose things again and again. If you are lucky, you can find them, but what about bad luck? It's better to be careful, you
Say yes?"
Ouyang Ke seemed to be implying something when he said this, but as soon as he finished speaking, he immediately said to the white-haired old man, "Old man, I'm leaving."
As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared.
Zhao Changyuan narrowed his eyes and thought to himself, what a fast speed and what a powerful light skill.
"What does he mean?"
Gong Yueyue didn't understand what Ouyang Ke meant, but it didn't sound like a good word.
Zhao Changyuan did not answer, but he was wary of Ouyang Ke, thinking that he would find the Hades Guard to investigate this person carefully when he returned.
"Pavilion Master, I had a hand-to-hand talk with the Pavilion Master today and benefited a lot. I'm going to say goodbye."
Zhao Changyuan bowed his hands and said goodbye.
"Wait a minute."
The white-haired old man walked around to Gong Yueyue and stared at Gong Yueyue, "Girl, it was you who broke through and turned the world around?"
At this time, Gong Yueyue also understood why the chessboard opened, because the chess piece she just moved happened to break the ancient chess game and reverse the situation.
Gong Yueyue can never lie. Even if she denies it now, she is afraid that the master of Tianxiang Pavilion will know the truth when he asks Ouyang Ke.
So she nodded and said, "I, I just happened to, I..."
Gong Yueyue didn't know how to say it was okay.
But before Gong Yueyue could finish speaking, the master of Tianxiang Pavilion, the white-haired old man, said very happily, "Little girl, are you willing to accept me as your teacher?"
Gong Yueyue was startled and didn't understand why this was suddenly related to apprenticeship. She raised her head and looked at Zhao Changyuan, and asked doubtfully, "Young Master?"
Zhao Changyuan was also a little surprised. Even if Tianxiang Pavilion accepts disciples, most of them are children under the age of ten. But despite this, there are still many parents begging Tianxiang Pavilion to accept disciples.
But when Tianxiang Pavilion accepts a disciple, doesn't it mean that it won't accept a disciple before he becomes a disciple?
And didn’t the master of Tianxiang Pavilion just accept a disciple three years ago, the same Musheng who was guarding the gate of Tianxiang Pavilion? Could it be that Musheng can become a disciple?
This is what the white-haired old man explained, "Haha, no matter what, you have broken the "turn around", whether it's luck or coincidence. In short, you have broken the chess game."
"Isn't this old saying saying that luck is also a kind of strength?"
Is luck also a type of strength?
What kind of old saying is this? Gong Yueyue said that she had never heard of it at all.
Then the white-haired old man said, "Actually, there is another rule in Tianxiang Pavilion that many people don't know. That is, anyone who can break the "turning the world around" chess game can do so, regardless of age, birth, or gender.
Accept him as a disciple."
"I wonder if the little girl is willing to become my teacher?"
The master of Tianxiang Pavilion asked again.
Hearing what the white-haired old man said, Gong Yueyue suddenly realized that Tianxiang Pavilion should be an extraordinary place, and the owner of Tianxiang Pavilion would definitely not be a simple person.
Although I don’t know what I will learn from becoming a disciple, it will definitely be beneficial.
Gong Yueyue no longer hesitated, she knelt down and kowtowed three times, "Master, come again, please accept my disciple's bow!"
"Okay, okay, from now on, baby girl, you will be my disciple of the old Tianxiang Pavilion. No matter what your name was before, from now on, whenever you go out in the name of my Tianxiang Pavilion, you can only use the name Mulian.
Already."
It turns out that the masters of Tianxiang Pavilion in the past dynasties were all called Mr. Tianxiang.
As the old man Tianxiang spoke, he took out a small box from his arms, handed it to Gong Yueyue and said, "Mu Lian, this is your guide butterfly. It is still an insect egg now and needs you to hatch it carefully. When it hatches,
, just bring it to Tianxiang Pavilion to find me."
"It's getting late now, you should go back first."
"Mu Sheng, see the guests off!"
Old Tianxiang said, and saw Musheng walking out of nowhere. He took out a box from his arms. The box looked similar to the one in Gong Yueyue's hand.
The box was opened, and a golden butterfly flapped its wings and flew out.
Musheng turned to look at Gong Yueyue and Zhao Changyuan, and said, "Junior sister, Master Shangguan, come with me!" (To be continued)