know kindness

In the scorching fire, before Gu Yuan's last sliver of consciousness dissipated, he suddenly remembered that on a rainy night 19 years ago, a killer who was famous all over the world came to him holding a crying baby girl covered in blood. His hermitage, Shen Shen knelt down.

That person, named Gu Chengying, was once a sharp blade used by Ming Shang and Tang Zhu to strike with his middle finger.

Before he became Guchengying, he also had a name unknown to everyone in the world - Gu Cheng.

Gu Yuan has an only son.

It's just that, four years ago, they cut off all relations and vowed not to see each other until death.

Gu Chengying has killed countless people in his life and has thousands of enemies. Once he betrayed that notorious master, he would have no place to stay.

People in the Jianghu couldn't tolerate him, and Tang Zhu couldn't even keep him. Everyone in the world was afraid of having the slightest relationship with him. He took his wife and fled to survive in the cracks of various forces.

Gu Yuan looked at Gu Chengying silently, with complicated expressions in his eyes.

The person who had personally said that he would not see him in this life until his death finally put down all his stubbornness and knelt down in front of him without dignity at the end of his journey.

There was anger and resentment in Gu Yuan's heart, but he finally took over the small newborn body in Gu Chengying's hands tremblingly.

He just saw the word "Standing Cloud" on the wet embroidered handkerchief around his neck, and saw the figure of the lonely city knocking his head three times on the wet and cold ground. among.

He subconsciously took two steps forward, but unexpectedly, Gu Chengying didn't turn his head back, and only used the tip of his sword to draw a scorching crack in the mud behind him, as if to completely draw a line with him.

He got angry from it, but he couldn't bear the baby girl in his arms to suffer from the freezing rain again, so he could only angrily say in the room: "Gu Cheng! Where are you going!"

That familiar but unfamiliar name was deeply buried in the past that he was destined to never pick up again when he insisted on choosing a wrong path.

If he was still his former self, maybe today, he should have a home to return to.

But now, it was too late to regret, and there was no turning back behind him.

Wherever he is now, he will bring disaster to those around him.

"Tang Zhu killed the love of my life. If I don't avenge this revenge, I won't go to hell even if I turn into a ghost!" Gu Chengying said, and subconsciously clenched the sword in his hand. It was the last sword he could hold in this world. Something, that's... hate.

"Can you bear the heart that she was born without father and mother?"

Just a few seconds of silence, but a long torment.

"I can only kill people in this life, my hands are dirty and my heart is even worse, I am not worthy of being a father... If your hands are clean, in the future... she will be clean too, and I will live without worry."

Gu Chengying left, holding a throat-sealed sword, and carrying blood that could not be washed clean by the rain.

He came here without a sound, and left without a sound, leaving behind only a clean baby girl.

***

In the autumn of that year, there was an extra girl in Wuxi Mountain.

Of Gu Yuan's eight apprentices, the youngest is six years old, and the oldest is only 11 years old. Anyone who sees a baby girl who can only drink milk is happy but dare not touch it.

Gu Yuan took eight fatherless and motherless children as his apprentices, but all of them were boys, so it would be fine to raise them rough, unlike this delicate female doll, who was worried about putting them in the room every day and holding them in his arms It's okay and I'm crying.

There was a junior sister in the mountain, and the eight little kids felt that they were big kids, so they changed their tricks to make fun things, and ran to the master's room twice a day to make the junior sister happy.

Sometimes Gu Yuan did something for a while, and when he came back, he could hear Gu Tingyun crying or giggling in the room.

And those little kids who sneaked into his room had already been kicked out by him countless times, but they still firmly and self-demonstrated to him, the master, what is the good quality of "accepting with an open mind and never changing after repeated admonitions".

Time passed day by day, and the girl who could only cry or smile in her infancy slowly learned to speak, recognize objects, and walk...

Later, there was a little girl with shofar braids in Wuxi Mountain who chased her senior brothers all day long with a baby voice.

The little girl grows and grows, getting taller and taller, and able to dance more and more.

In her life, the first practical skill she learned was "report black".

"Eldest brother! Sixth brother robs me of fruit!"

"Fifth Senior Brother, Sixth Senior Brother said that your cooking is not delicious!"

"Second Senior Brother, Sixth Senior Brother said you are a bad boy!"

"Eighth Senior Brother, Sixth Senior Brother said you have facial paralysis!"

"Seventh senior brother, sixth senior brother laughed at you for being afraid of even big cats in the mountains!"

Undoubtedly, among the eight senior brothers, the one Gu Tingyun dislikes the most is the sixth senior brother Gu Yuanchen, the most fearless child in the school.

Of these two people, one is extremely stubborn, the other is arrogant and favored, and they made the people in the mountain uneasy several times.

"Master, please take care of Yuanchen and Junior Sister, if they continue to make trouble like this, they will set fire to the mountain sooner or later!"

"Master, Junior Brother Yuanchen blew up the kitchen yesterday in order to scare Junior Sister!"

"Master, little junior sister is always targeting me! I was forced!"

"Master, my little junior sister peeped at me yesterday...and asked me why I peeed with my thumb..."

"Master, little junior sister, she..."

"Master, Junior Sister..."

"Master, little..."

Gu Yuan felt like a monkey breeder, and the monkeys and their grandchildren shouted in his ear: "Master, master, master!"

The master came, the master passed, and finally conveyed a message to him.

——Gu Tingyun, this girl, is really spoiled by him.

Later, under the collective protest of the apprentices, Gu Yuan led a group of youngsters to build a separate room for Gu Tingyun.

Gu Tingyun jumped into his new house, wandered around happily, turned around and ran to Gu Yuan, grabbed Gu Yuan's sleeve, raised his head and asked in a milky voice: "Master~~ Can I sleep here with Second Senior Brother!"

When Gu Tingyun was still ignorant, Gu Yuan made it clear to his eight apprentices that men and women could not kiss each other, he would break the leg of anyone who dared to touch the junior sister, and whoever dared not to do anything with the junior sister would be fine. If it is clean, he will chop off the baby.

Gu Tingyun just thought that Gu Yizhi was good-tempered and good-looking, so he got closer to him on weekdays. Now that he said this, Gu Zhizhi was so frightened that he coughed violently and his face turned pale.

Gu Yuan's response was very straightforward: "No, sleep by yourself."

After hearing this, Gu Tingyun tilted his head curiously and argued, "But senior brother and the others can sleep together, why should I be alone?" As he spoke, he suddenly got angry and shook Gu Yuan's sleeve back and forth, "I don't want a new one." The room is gone, I am not allowed to sleep with the second brother, I want to go back and sleep with the master!"

The seven-year-old girl has practiced a little bit of basic skills, and her small fists have gained some strength. In order to prevent the sleeves, which were already of poor quality, from being torn by the little devil, Gu Yuan quickly pressed her head and pushed her all the way. Half pushed to the side of the bed: "The house can't be built for nothing."

"It can't be in vain~" Gu Yuanchen spread his hands, and went back to the room with the other senior brothers hahaha with his hands behind his back.

Gu Tingyun pursed his lips, hugged the pillow and chased Gu Yuan all the way, but was ruthlessly shut outside the door.

"Master! It's so cold outside, let me in!"

"Go back to your room and sleep."

"Master! I don't want to sleep alone, I'm afraid..."

That night, Gu Tingyun hugged a pillow and slept in front of Gu Yuan's door, but finally woke up in that strange new bedroom.

The same goes for the next few nights.

She felt a little cold, and during the day, she ran to tell Gu Yuan that Gu Yuan's eyes were full of tension, but in the end he resisted it, turned back to the room, and closed the door.

In the afternoon, the brothers collected herbs, decocted them, boiled syrup for her, and sent warm quilts washed and dried to her house.

The little girl recognized her own little room during that minor illness.

In the days after that, she seemed to be far away from the master. Although she could see her every day, the master no longer cared about all the trivial things about her.

"Master, the sixth senior brother bullies me, and the other senior brothers don't care about him!"

"Master, I've already stabilized the horse stance, when will you teach me something else?"

"Master, I picked a lot of fruits, can I put them in your window..."

For a while, the master who used to favor her no longer loved her, and the senior brothers seemed not to let her in everything.

The little world in little Gu Tingyun's heart was about to collapse.

It turns out that she has never been the center of the world, and all the people in the world do not revolve around her.

From then on, she got up in the morning with her seniors, practiced martial arts, ate, exchanged lessons, and accepted spot checks from her master from time to time, and soon became a not-so-special member of Wuxi Mountain.

Another autumn, the little girl celebrated her birthday. Gu Yuan, who hadn't cared about her for a long time, personally made a bowl of longevity noodles for her.

Under Gu Yuan's gaze, she carefully picked up the bowl and chopsticks, and ate, but couldn't help crying.

She asked, why did Master suddenly dislike me? Is it because I did something wrong?

Gu Yuan said bluntly: "Yes, you are too noisy."

When Gu Tingyun heard it, he burst into tears instantly because of grievances. The unswallowed noodles were in his mouth, and he sprayed a little while crying, and there was a lot of snot, tears, and saliva, which was so ugly that he didn't want to look good.

"But... but master... I am now, now I am obedient, I am obedient... Brother, brothers also... also said that I have changed, I... Can I still live with Master... Master, don't hate me ..."

Her eyes were red, and she was choking with slurred words. She choked on the pepper in the noodles halfway, and coughed for a while.

Gu Yuan took out a handkerchief, wiped her eyes, folded another handkerchief, and wiped her mouth.

"How can I hate you as a teacher? Among the nine disciples, I love you the most."

"I don't believe it...Master almost doesn't want me anymore..."

"As a teacher, I am afraid that I will spoil you if I love you too much." Gu Yuan said, "Wuxi Mountain is not a place where you can stay forever. There are too many people of all kinds in the world below the mountain. They are not masters." , and I'm not a senior brother, I won't protect you, let you..."

"If it's possible, Master is willing to protect you from any worries for the rest of your life, but after all, Master is old, and at most he will protect you to grow into a big girl. The rest of the road still depends on you... Don't blame the teacher for being cruel, In fact, if you allow yourself to be arrogant and indulgent now, it will harm you."

"Master..."

At that moment, the master in the little child's eyes reached out and rubbed her little head. The age-old face had already been covered with creases of different shades, and she couldn't help feeling the tip of her nose sore.

It turned out that all of Master's indifference and harshness came from the good intentions hidden deep in his heart.

Although he wished that the child would be clean and have no worries for the rest of his life, he still wanted to tell her how to grow up.

This deep mountain will not be able to hide her forever.

I only hope that she is a lucky child. If the sky collapses and the earth collapses, and he is powerless, there will still be someone who can prop up a new sky for her.