dhibooks Chapter 19 Meeting by Destiny?
Chapter 19 Meeting by Destiny?
Winter has always been difficult, the night is late and the night is early, as if sleeping all day.Even the days are dark most of the days, and there are snowflakes day and night.
It's the Chinese New Year today, and it's full of energy and excitement.
Before dawn early in the morning, Yan Zixiao got up to do accounts.There are a lot of things purchased in the past few days of the Chinese New Year, and I dare not pile up the bills until the sun comes out.
Yan Zixiao straightened his waist and thumped his shoulders. With a sound of "wow", a large handful of plum blossoms appeared in front of Yan Zixiao's eyes.
The plum blossoms in the first month are delicate and beautiful, and even a few red flowers can be in full bloom.A handful of plum blossoms were sealed in thin ice, probably because of a spell, and they couldn't be melted even if they were covered with hands.This kind of flower can bloom all the time, unbeaten in all seasons.
Cui Jingyan walked behind Yan Zixiao, and held his shoulders for him: "For you, do you like it?"
"You picked the flowers in Master's yard again, Jiang Bie managed to grow them alive, what should I say when you come to cry with me later?" Having said that, Yan Zixiao still reached out for a transparent glass bottle and put the flowers in it .
Cui Jingyan took advantage of the situation and complained: "Senior brother, the head of the sect, is calling you every day. Look at this New Year's Eve man, he has been busy for several hours. What's wrong with me picking a few flowers from him?"
"For those years when my uncle didn't come back, I had nothing to do when I was idle. When I got busy, my life went by a lot faster." Yan Zixiao closed the account book in his hand and handed it to Cui Jingyan, "Since my uncle loves me, why don't you help me?" I'll take a quick errand to show Master this account book, so I won't have to go all the way."
Cui Jingyan felt guilty, took the account book and said: "Then you have a good rest, I'm going."
Yan Zixiao watched Cui Jingyan leave, took out a hoe from the back room, walked under the peach tree in the yard, and dug out two jars of sweet-scented osmanthus wine.
Lou Qingchen sat on the couch, reaching out to warm the fire in the brazier.He took the ledger from Cui Jingyan with one hand, glanced at it hastily, and put it on the shelf behind him.
"Tsk, you should take a closer look, Ayan made it all morning." Cui Jingyan, who was lying on his side on the couch, was very dissatisfied with Lou Qingchen's hasty attitude, and pawed Lou Qingchen with his feet to show his anger.
"I've always been very reassured about Zixiao's work. I told him not to send it to me for a long time. This kid just doesn't listen." Lou Qingchen slapped Cui Jingyan's foot away: "It is estimated that he sent you away on purpose, and he didn't want to be with you. You stay together. Has the intention to leave been discovered?"
Cui Jingyan withdrew his arrogant feet, lowered his head to play with the ornaments on the table, and his hair, which was always flamboyant, fell down: "This kid knows everything. If I don't tell him, he will pretend to be stupid and act with me."
"Looking at you both are tired." Lou Qingchen flipped over the charcoal fire in the brazier with a stove hook: "It's good to keep it for a year."
"After the new year is over today, I have to leave tomorrow." Cui Jingyan turned over and looked at the ceiling in a daze: "Tomorrow I will go through the back door, without a sword, and find a mule to go quietly. Don't tell Ayan. "
"I'm too lazy to say." Lou Qingchen said with a smile.
The two of them were silent, the fire in the basin was crackling, and they could hear the sound of a pipa not far away.
What a beautiful day, but what a day, Cui Jingyan seemed to see the distant Wuzhen in the middle of winter through the sound of the pipa.The green hills on both sides of the strait are emerald, and the flowers and branches make shadows.The water surface is rippling, and the oars and sculls add sound.The years are quiet and good.
It is Yanzi Xiaotan's "Sunset Xiaogu".
Cui Jingyan swayed his legs following the rhythm while admiring, and asked casually, "Hey, who planted that peach tree in my yard?"
Lou Qingchen poured himself a bowl of freshly brewed oolong tea: "Zi Xiao planted it. On the third day after you left, he came back with a sapling from somewhere."
Cui Jingyan thought of those years when he was not around, his little baby might sit under the peach tree and play the pipa, and the spring breeze blew and the peach blossoms fell, soft and peaceful.He missed too much, the days when he held Yan Zixiao on his lap and taught him to read and write would never go back.
Feeling sore in his heart, he asked, "Why is he growing that thing?"
Lou Qingchen also poured a bowl for Cui Jingyan: "Maybe he believes it."
Cui Jingyan didn't understand: "What do you believe?"
What do you believe?Peaches and plums, the next from Seikei.
Lou Qingchen raised his eyes and teased: "What kind of blessing did you cultivate in your previous life? You said you were ignorant, so how can you pick up such an innocent child?"
Cui Jingyan raised half of his body: "Are you embarrassed to say me? Didn't your family pick up a child?"
Looking around, he asked again, "Where's your child?"
Lou Qingchen took a sip of hot tea, squinted his eyes and said slowly: "Jiang Bie left Shenxingyan privately and worshiped in Beiming Palace. According to the door rules, I punished him to shovel bird feces."
The head of Shenxingyan began to talk nonsense about the rules of the sect again.
As the only female creature in Shenxingyan, Xuanniao should have enjoyed the same treatment as the head of the house—they have a common shit-shoveling officer.
Jiang Bie was depressed and took a shovel to poke in Xuanniao's yard. It took him eight lifetimes of bad luck to get to this poor bird that doesn't shit, ah no, it's a place where birds shit everywhere.
"Come on." Xuanniao waved its wings and patted Jiang Bie on the head.
"Ah, grandma, just tell me if you have something to do, and you can be gentle. My brainless head can't stand your toss." Jiang Bie rubbed his head, it didn't hurt, but he was still aggrieved.However, Xuanniao can spray him to death with a breath, what should he do if he can't bear it?
Hey, I have a bad temper with Lou Qingchen.
"Jiang Farewell, Master calls you home for dinner!" Jiang Yan's voice transmission talisman came.
Jiang Bieru was pardoned, and said to Xuan Niao: "Bye bye, I'm going to drink spicy food, you can shovel shit yourself."
He hurriedly ran towards Taniguchi, and suddenly remembered that only his master's talisman could open the valley gate.
His master is too lazy to open the door for him, okay?
The New Year's dinner at Shenxingyan is no different from that of ordinary people.Several disciples from the sect gathered around a table, cooking a few dishes of big fish and meat that can only be eaten after the New Year, and serving them with altars of old wine.The ingot-like dumplings are poured into the pot and served on the table at the same time.
"Stop setting off firecrackers, Jiang Yan, come over to eat." Yan Zixiao called out: "If there is no good food, let Jiang stop eating."
Jiang Bie and Cui Jingyan were like-minded, drinking at each other.After a while, he said: "my uncle is here to respect you." Then he said: "my nephew is here, let's go together." After a while, I searched all over the table.
"You two are too dishonest, wait for me." Jiang Yan didn't have time to wash his hands, and the two of them rubbed their hands on their pants and started to eat. Unexpectedly, Cui Jingyan gave him a glass of wine: "Jiang Bie drank all, Jiang Yan, you drink too, don't disrespect my uncle."
But all these bustles had nothing to do with Lou Qingchen.
As a little fairy who doesn't eat fireworks in the world, Lou Qingchen can't eat these things, and can't melt into them.
In previous years, a person was happy and pure and at ease.For some reason this year, seeing these people get together happily, I feel a little uncomfortable.
Jiang Bie first saw Lou Qingchen, and ran towards Lou Qingchen while beckoning: "Master, let's go and play together! I'm missing you."
Jiang Bie stepped on the snow and ran up to Lou Qingchen with one foot deep and the other shallow.Full of youthful vigor, his face was red from drinking or the cold.On the contrary, the eyes are bright, with a little breath of water vapor, which complements the red lanterns in the courtyard.
Don't look at Lou Qingchen in a daze, Jiang dragged Lou Qingchen to the fire room: "Let's go, I left some food for you."
Lou Qingchen looked at the hand that was holding her, there was a thick layer of calluses on it, probably left by practicing swords, it was warm and powerful.
Lou Qingchen's heart warmed, and he followed Jiang Bie away without thinking, and sat down in a daze.The smell of the food made Lou Qingchen feel nostalgic, and was about to pick up the chopsticks hesitantly.
I don't know from which corner Jiang Bie took out a plate of green, crispy and raw vegetables, plain cucumbers, among the big fish and meat on the table.
"Master left this for you. It's not easy to buy fresh ones in this season. I spent a lot of money. You have been fasting for a long time, and you can't eat these greasy ones. Lighter ones are just right."
Damn I want to eat meat today.Lou Qingchen's expectation was completely chilled by this plate of green, so he shouldn't expect any good things from these people.
After drinking for three rounds, there was only a group of juniors who were punching and shouting.
Lou Qingchen leaned against the wall beside him: "Aren't you going to worship at the ancestral hall?"
Cui Jingyan, who was pulling the mule, freed up a hand and waved it: "I'm not worthy, if you show your ancestral spirit again, beat it out for me."
Lou Qingchen lowered his head and kicked the clods on the ground, the same way he watched Cui Jingyan go 40 years ago.
Cui Jingyan patted Lou Qingchen's shoulder, wanted to say something but didn't say anything.In the end, he had no choice but to lead the mule and walk away slowly, leaving a sentence: "Let's go, senior brother, take care of yourself."
Cui Jingyan walked to the mountain gate and saw a familiar figure, Yan Zixiao.
I was in a hurry, Cui Jingyan turned around and wanted to run, but Yan Zixiao said first: "Master, I'm just here to see you off."
Cui Jingyan stopped, and turned around hesitantly: "Ayan..."
"Don't talk." Yan Zixiao interrupted Cui Jingyan, "Once you open your mouth, your hard-hearted heart will soften."
The two sat on the stone bench at the entrance of the mountain, Yan Zixiao opened two jars of sweet-scented osmanthus wine, and the two drank without saying a word.
The night was surprisingly quiet, and the slight sound of snow falling on the ground could be heard clearly. The moonlight danced on the dots of snow, wrapped in the smell of firecrackers, cold and warm.
Cui Jingyan really wanted time to stop at this moment, wanted to shake out all the words accumulated in his stomach, and imagined holding Yan Zixiao and asking him like the first time the two met: "Little beauty, how about going with the uncle?" good?"
Yan Zixiao seemed to have sensed the wavering in Cui Jingyan's heart, and said first: "I will never ask about things you don't tell me. You just need to know that if you get fame and fame, I will be ecstatic. If you are guilty If you die, I will never forgive you. After you die, I will bury you with you."
Cui Jingyan was startled, stood up and said, "Ayan..."
Yan Zixiao also got up to see him off and said, "After drinking the wine, let's go on the road."
Cui Jingyan regained his composure for a while, smiled stiffly, knowing that saying nothing would help, led the mule, hummed a tune that was out of tune, and disappeared into the indifferent night.
If Cui Jingyan turned around at this time, he would definitely see Yan Zixiao waiting at the gate of the mountain, just like 40 years ago, eager to see through.
Yan Zixiao poured himself a glass of wine, lightly touched the glass that Cui Jingyan had just used, smiled slightly, raised his head and drank it down.
The tail is born holding the pillar, and it will not rest until death.
After sending Cui Jingyan away, Lou Qingchen returned to the room and saw Jiang Bie waiting for him at the round table under the eaves.
Lou Qingchen took advantage of the opportunity and sat on the reclining chair on the other side of the round table, eating plain cucumbers on the table bored.
Jiang Bie looked at Lou Qingchen with his chin in his hands.The moonlight seemed to have coated him with a layer of silver, and his usual sharpness was now restrained under the beautiful skin. He stood still there, as if he was as beautiful as a painting.
Lou Qingchen looked at the moon with an indescribably lonely expression, most of which was the emptiness after the excitement, and said lightly: "I really thought you were gone. Shenxingyan has never had a reason to keep you. To stay with you at the beginning is just to check and balance with Beiming Palace."
"What about now?" Jiang Bie asked back.
Lou Qingchen turned his head to look at him, his pure black eyes were like springs in the night, he could see Jiang Bie's heart directly.
Jiang don't let go of his hand on his cheek, lay down on the round table, looked down at the fresh cucumber on the table: "Master, do you know? In the mass grave, you held my hand and told me that you would never let me go!" When I was possessed, I knew it was over for me."
Lou Qingchen's stand-in talisman embroidered on the sect, his firm promises, decades of loneliness, his unrevealed fragility, and the buried remorse in his heart are all intertwined in Jiang Bie's mind.What he owed Lou Qingchen was not as simple as a life.
Jiang Bie looked up at Shanglou Qingchen: "I knew then that I would give my life to Shenxingyan."
Lou Qingchen was stunned, and a wave of troubles pent up in his heart dissipated at once.He wanted to reach out and touch Jiang Bie's hair, but he hesitated halfway and stopped.
Jiang Bie looked at the slender hands above him, as white as snow, reflecting the luster of jade in the moonlight.Are those hands as hard and cold as stones?
Don't think about it, Jiang slightly raised his head and pressed Lou Qingchen's palm.A wave of warmth spread all over Jiang Bie's body, and Jiang Bie lightly rubbed against Lou Qingchen's palm.
The fluffy hair rubbed against Lou Qingchen's palm, like the hair of a large animal.Lou Qingchen looked at the coquettish Jiang Bie, couldn't help laughing, and rubbed Jiang Bie's hair with his hands.
Jiang Bie squinted his eyes and said, "Let's name Xuanniao."
Are you a little girl?Also named.Lou Qingchen couldn't help complaining in his heart, but he still asked: "What's your name?"
"Chinese New Year this year." Jiang Bie looked at the red lanterns in the yard: "Let's call it New Year's Eve."
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In an unknown town.
Cui Jingyan climbed out of the latrine with the help of the wall, his eyes were darkened, and his legs were shaking.
This is already the hundredth latrine he has squatted on the road.When did he eat something bad?
Shenxingyan at this time.
Jiang Yan rummaged through the medicine cabinet and asked, "Hey, where is the croton here?"
Jiang Bie replied casually: "Ah, yesterday I watched Senior Brother Yan grind all the croton into powder and pour it into a jar of sweet-scented osmanthus wine."
The author says:
Xuanniao: My mother is not called Da Nian!New Year's Eve is too earthy!
The first copy is finished.There are still many problems, some plot bugs, the emotions of the characters are still a little bit jumpy, and the characters sometimes can't hold back.The writing is so bad that I really cried, I will try my best to write better and better!I plan to rebuild it sometime. It should be repaired for a while, and it may disturb everyone.By the way, I would like to share with you the pipa song "Sunset Xiaogu" on Teacher Liu Dehai's website. I love it so much, it sounds so good that I want to cry.