Fairy cage

"Who are you?"

Yu Lie looked at the other party with cold eyes. He was thinking about whether his identity had been discovered by the other party and whether he should take action to prevent his whereabouts from being exposed in advance.

But the next moment, the female Taoist opposite looked stunned. She showed a self-deprecating smile, bowed her head to Yu Lie, and returned:

"Pu Xing, a poor Taoist, has met the Taoist priest."

"Pu Xing?!"

The coldness on Yu Lie's face immediately turned into surprise, confusion, and deep embarrassment.

This really made him not expect that the female Taoist whom he had met twenty-two years ago was actually a Taoist child of the same period as him, and she was also an old friend with a somewhat complicated relationship.

Old friends met, but Yu Lie didn't recognize each other at all. This situation gave him the urge to say that the other party had recognized the wrong person and run away immediately.

Yu Lie was silent for a long time.

He gave up the idea of ​​running away and descended directly from the air, landed on the shore, and saluted the other party:

"I've met fellow Daoist Pu."

Holding his hands, Yu Lie looked at the female Taoist opposite him carefully. He still didn't find many similarities with the previous one on her face, and her temperament was also completely different. Only the female Taoist's eyebrows and eyes still had the impression of her. A hint of familiarity.

Yu Lie frowned and immediately wanted to ask why the other party had changed so much, but when the words came to his lips, he stopped in time.

Because he suddenly realized that decades had passed since he left Blackwater Town.

The female path in front of him was not only different from the Pu Xing in his memory, but also different from the one she looked like twenty-two years ago.

Before Yu Lie went into seclusion, although the female Taoist's face was mature, she still had more of a cool air than a dignified air. She looked to be in her thirties, but now, she is wearing a red Bagua robe, dignified and graceful, although her face still shows no trace of time. He was injured, but the marks were not shallow. He looked like he was in his forties.

Yu Lie stopped talking in time, but Pu Xing looked at him with a slight smile on his dignified face and said:

"I haven't seen you for decades, but Taoist Master Yu's appearance has not changed. I really envy this poor Taoist. Just like you and me, we are still less than ten years old."

Yu Lie also remembered that he was only sixteen or seventy-eight years old back then, and Pu Xing was about the same age.

He also said with emotion:

"The Eighteenth Change of Women, Pu Daoyou is more graceful and graceful now than in the past. No wonder I can't recognize you."

A chuckle sounded.

Originally, even though Pu Xing was smiling, her face was still dignified and imposing, but Yu Lie's words immediately made her lose her power.

She shook her head and laughed: "If you don't recognize it, you don't recognize it. You'll find an excuse and then you'll have to flatter me.

Fellow Taoist is still the same as before, smooth-tongued and has not changed at all. "

Yu Lie didn't think it was anything, but after being teased like this, a trace of sarcasm appeared on his face.

Before he could reply, Pu Xing suddenly turned sideways, looked at Yu Lie, and invited:

"Daozhang Yu is revisiting his old place today. Why not just stay at the foot of the cliff? Why not follow Pindao up the mountain to see what changes have taken place in the town? Moreover, there are other old friends of the Taoist Priest on the mountain."

Her white neck was exposed, and she was still taller and longer than Yu Lie, like a swan.

When Yu Lie heard this, he felt a little wary in his heart: "This Pu Xing appeared here twenty-two years ago, and now he happens to appear here again, and he invited me to the town. He really didn't want to trick me into joining the formation." ?”

Although twenty-two years have passed and Yu Lie is now in Qianzhou, Yu Lie is not afraid of entering the town, but "he wants to enter" and "being invited to enter" are two different things.

Yu Lie, who was cautious by nature, thought about it and chose to refuse.

He came casually: "My old friends in the town are here, why bother to enter the town again!"

Yu Lie also extended his hand and invited him towards the other side of the cliff: "If you have free time, Taoist friend Pu, why don't you go out with me at night by holding a candle and chatting under the moon?"

Pu Xing didn't hesitate. She held her purple bamboo whisk in her arms, nodded and said, "Very good."

So the two of them walked together towards another mountain in the distance.

As they walked, they chatted and talked about the changes in the world.

After arriving in the dark dense forest, although both of them were Taoists and Pu Xing was also a Taoist disciple for many years and could see at night, Yu Lie still took out a candle as promised, held it in his hand, and held it for both of them. People lighting.

As a result, when Pu Xing saw the fire, she immediately reminded her: "The foot of the cliff is no longer what it used to be. There are often lizards making trouble around, so it's better to extinguish the candles..."

But when Yu Lie glanced at her suspiciously, she was startled, and immediately thought of the feeling of being swept by divine consciousness before, and the scene of Yu Lie walking through the air.

Pu Xing said with relief: "It's just a poor Taoist who has poor eyesight. Taoist Master Yu is already at the seventh level and only needs to build the foundation, so why care about some reptiles."

Yu Lie raised his eyebrows, realizing that the news about him in Baichao might not have spread to Heishui Town. Pu Xing next to him knew about his experience in Qianzhou Dao Palace at most, but not about other things. .

Times are different now, and the gap between the two is also huge.

Yu Lie had long since given up the idea of ​​showing off in front of the other party. He nodded and agreed: "Cultivation is difficult, so it's better to be more vigilant."

Then he extinguished the white candle in his hand and held the smoking candle in his hand.

Going straight all the way, the two of them were lucky, and there was no monster attacking them.

After arriving at the top of another mountain, Pu Xing pointed to a rock. From it, one could vaguely see the Black Water Cliff in the distance, but the figures on the cliff could not be seen. In the thick fog, only two or three rows of eaves and brackets could be seen occasionally.

They sat directly opposite each other on the bluestone. Pu Xing took off the silver pot from her waist and took out two wine glasses to consider for Yu Lie.

Yu Lie drank to the moon when he saw her on the shore. When walking on the road, he was rubbing the wine bottle all the time. Now as soon as he sat down, he opened the wine stall again.

He joked:

"My fellow Taoist was addicted to tobacco and alcohol back then, but now he doesn't seem to smoke anymore, but he drinks more and more."

Pu Xing poured herself a glass of wine. When she heard Yu Lie's words, maybe it was because of the alcohol, her cheeks turned slightly red for some reason.

She whispered in her mouth: "Young and frivolous, with a lot of old wounds, it is impossible to survive without relying on strong alcohol."

The female Taoist rolled up her hair and suddenly looked at Yu Lie with a complicated look, as sticky as if she was about to pull strings.

She paused and then said: "I have indeed quit smoking. I have quit smoking since the Black Emperor Calendar, 3617 years ago."

Yu Lie froze for a moment, and he immediately remembered that it was seventeen years ago when the army was launched. It was also in Dadian soldiers that he and Pu Xing met by chance and found that the other party was practicing with the help of medicine and smoke, and was injured.

The atmosphere between the two became a little weird.

Yu Lie held the wine glass and didn't know what to say for a moment.

He stared at the unfamiliar and blushing Pu Xing opposite him, as if he had gone back to an earlier time, when they first arrived in Blackwater Town and were in the same room for the first time.

Even though the other person had a fierce temper at the time and was the one she chose, the woman still blushed and felt embarrassed at that time.

At that time, Yu Lie couldn't help but feel excited. He couldn't sleep all night long, thinking about a series of futures between the two of them.

But the situation later was too difficult, and both of them were undecided. One was harsh and the other was tolerant. No one owed anything to the other and they each got what they needed, but in the end they broke up on bad terms.

Pu Xing sat cross-legged in front of Yu Lie. She felt the breath in the air, her eyes were in a trance, and she coincidentally thought of various stories from the past.

Especially the scene when Yu Lie left, the encounter in the Dadian soldiers, and the news that Yu Lie came from Qianzhou Daocheng in the years that followed...all came to Pu Xing's heart.

A sigh sounded:

"That's right."

Yu Lie smiled casually and toasted Pu Xing: "It's been so many years."

He immediately drank it and let go of everything.

Pu Xing also woke up from her memories. Her fingers touched the silver pot and wine glass. She was a little flustered and wanted to say something, but she didn't know where to start.

Does it mean that she has been paying attention to his news since they broke up?

Does it mean that after she was promoted to a Taoist disciple, the first thing she did was not return to her hometown, but rush to Qianzhou Daocheng, only to find that he had already become famous and had a confidante?

Or is it that she passed by Blackwater Cliff twenty-two years ago, accidentally saw the old things, and thought it was him returning to Blackwater Town, but it turned out to be true? !

Or cry bitterly to him, telling him about his unwillingness for most of his life, his regrets and regrets about sitting alone in front of the window...

Pu Xing was hesitating, but Yu Lie had already put down his wine glass and stood up.

He was reaching into his sleeve pocket, secretly searching for the treasure-hunting bamboo rat's private spiritual object in Zifu, intending to give it to Pu Xing to repay the kindness he had given her.

Pu Xing was keenly aware of Yu Lie's movements and realized that Yu Lie would leave the next moment.

Various expressions of hesitation, panic, doubt, shame, etc. flashed across her face.

Finally, Pu Xing gritted his teeth and did the first thing he did when they were in the same room.

She stood up quickly and was half a head taller than Yu Lie.

"In order to practice Taoism, I wasted no time on others, thinking that the road was long and my heart was as high as the sky! As a result, my practice of Taoism was fruitless. My old wounds were like a mountain, and it was hard to get rid of them. My life was not good, and my inner demons were trapped. I will regret it for the rest of my life.

right! This guy is my inner demon.

Even if I am not as good as him and miss him, I still want him to remember me forever! ! "

Yu Lie raised his head slightly and looked at the other party in a daze, while subconsciously kneading his hands to be on guard.

As a result, Pu Xing suddenly took off the fishtail golden crown on her head, and her long hair fell down like a waterfall. She was the same as before, throwing away the fly whisk, and boldly and directly took off her robe.

It's just different from the beginning. Now Pu Xing's figure is not only slender, but also graceful and concave. It's not that she has nothing but fair skin, and her behavior is out of line.

She stared at Yu Lie with fire in her eyes, her aura overwhelming the Taoist priest Yu Lie for a moment:

"Fuck me!"