(a)

The silver light of the kitchen knife danced on the board, and after a few ups and downs, the raw chicken was cut into neat pieces. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Emperor, are the green onions chopped?" Shuoyue put down the kitchen knife and turned back to ask Emperor Inhata who had helped her.

"Alright Boss!"

The emperor carried a plate full of green accessories and ran to Shuoyue's side. Shuoyue took the plate in her hand and began her performance.

Heat the pot, paste the ginger slices, stir-fry until fragrant, put the oil, use the chopped peppercorns, star anise and red pepper to boil the pot, put the chicken in the pot, with soy sauce and cooking wine, stir-fry until eight ripe, then spread the chopped green onions, add water to cover the pot and simmer until the soup is completely steamed dry.

Bo Li Shuoyue, thirty-five years old, the sword is not old.

At least, in the kitchen, her strength is not inferior to that year.

Every step is carried out in an orderly manner, how much condiment to add, how much heat is controlled, and so on, she has long been familiar with such skills. When the enticing aroma wafted out from under the eaves of the pot, Shuoyue straightened her waist, wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead with her sleeve, and let out a long breath.

"Whew-"

"Alright, Emperor, you can turn off the heat! it's almost done, and the rest depends on the residual heat in the pot," she said, looking back.

"Okay!"

The emperor shouted, squatted down and began to tinker with the stove.

This is the last course of dinner, and when it comes out of the pot, it's time for everyone at the dinner table to arrive.

Through the small window on the kitchen wall, you can see a corner of the front yard of the shrine, where 10-year-old Kodoyu is sweeping the fallen leaves that can never be cleaned. When a gust of autumn wind passed, the courtyard was withered and yellow again, and her work was in vain.

Still, it seems, she's not far from getting bored.

"The flowers are gorgeous~ will eventually wither~ if they wander like this~ how can they be forgiven~"

She hummed a song and waved her broom, and the joy in her heart naturally came to her face.

She wore a white and red witch costume, cut her long princess-like hair and bangs, and looked very much like her adoptive mother, Hakuri Shuoyue, when she was young.

Although, there is not the slightest blood relationship between the two.

"What's so fun, Xiaoyu?"

At this moment, a very familiar voice sounded behind the rain. When she turned around, she saw Nalan Twilight, who had returned triumphantly after retreating from the monster, carrying the sunset on her back and walking slowly from the other end of the gate with a smile on her face.

"Nalan Dad!"

Xiao Zhengyu shouted, dropped the broom in his hand and rushed over, and got into Nalan Yu's arms.

"Light rain, ......"

Nalan Yu touched the head of the rain, but pushed her away again, pressed her shoulders with both hands, condescendingly, and said with a dark face:

"What did you call me just now?"

"Nalan Daddy BA ......"

"What are you talking about? The wind is so loud that I can't hear clearly. ”

"Brother...... Brother ......"

"Good boy!"

The dark clouds that gathered on Nalan Twilight's face suddenly dispersed, and the smile bloomed again. Nalan Yu squatted down, helped Ji Yu straighten her clothes, and gently pinched her little face.

"You're bullying Xiaoyu again?"

Looking forward along the stone path under his feet, Nalan saw that Shuoyue was standing on the porch of the shrine with a smile, so he also smiled:

"What's going on there, it's just teaching her some principles of being a human being. ”

"New Moon Mom!"

As soon as the rain saw that the moon was coming, she broke free from Nalan Twilight's clutches, rushed into her adoptive mother's arms, and complained as soon as she passed:

"Shuoyue's mother, Nalan's father, he won't let me call him dad anyway, he has to call him brother. ”

"Hehe......"

Shuoyue looked down at the face of the rain, stroked the back of the rain's head, and smiled without saying a word. Seeing this, Nalan Yu stood up and walked towards the two, saying as he walked:

"What's your name daddy, I'm only eighteen years old, how can I be your father!"

"Aren't you over nine hundred years old?" said Shuoyue.

"Oops, you don't understand that. Nalan stood still in front of her and said, "The moment I became a vampire, my age was fixed and I won't grow any longer. So I was eighteen last year, eighteen this year, eighteen next year, forever so young!"

"Hehe, it's just one year older than Zi!"

"Ahaha......"

Nalan twilight scratched the back of her head and smiled a little awkwardly.

"By the way, speaking of which......" said Shuoyue again, "Do you know what the women in the nearby village have been talking about us lately?"

"How?"

"'Look at that shrine maiden in the shrine, her sons are so old, and they are so young, they look like they are in their thirties!'"

"Huh?"

Nalan Yu stared at a pair of big ignorant eyes, raised his eyebrows, and looked at Shuoyue with a question mark on his face, but saw that Shuoyue smiled, and continued:

"That's right, don't you want to be Xiaoyu's brother! Xiaoyu is my daughter, her brother, that is, my son!"

"This ......"

Nalan Yu thought about it and was speechless for a while. At this time, even Xiao Zhengyu began to make fun of him with "Brother Nalan" and "Brother Nalan", and he was so embarrassed that he died.

"Forget it, the son is the son," Nalan Yu was angry and said, "Eighteen-year-old and thirty-five-year-old call mother, it's not ashamed!"

"Haha, Brother Nalan!" said Yu Yu clapping his palms and laughing.

Another beautiful twilight, another burst of laughter, if only such days could last forever...... That would be great.

(b)

"What's the matter, so rich?"

Nalan Yu washed his hands, walked to the dining table, and looked surprised at the steaming dishes. There were only four people in the shrine, but the meal was enough to feed ten people.

It seems that only by using psychic techniques to summon Yuyuko of Xixing Temple can the problem be solved.

"Who's birthday today?" asked Nalan Yu, who pulled a stool and sat down.

Then again, what is his birthday?

"No, stupid!"

Shuoyue walked over from the kitchen with a large plate of roast chicken with chives.

"Then why do you cook so many dishes?" asked Nalan Hui again.

"Today is a special day!"

Shuoyue said, put down the plate, and sat down in the middle of Xiao Zhengyu and Emperor Inaba, directly opposite Nalan Twilight. The couple seemed to have colluded in advance, and they were all laughing mysteriously, but Nalan Twilight was still in the dark, confused.

After a moment, Shuoyue took the initiative to puncture the mystery.

"Today," she said, "is the day that Xiaoyu officially becomes a Hakurei shrine maiden. ”

"Eh-"

Nalan widened his eyes and opened his mouth wide. He knew that the day was always coming, but ......

"It's too early!" he cried, "she's only ten years old!"

"Like you said before, 'Isn't there still you'?"

This sentence alone put all Nalan Dusk's doubts back into his stomach. Yes, and he's there, and as long as he's around, the shrine maiden of Hakurei is absolutely safe. After all these years, all the ups and downs have passed, and he is as reliable as a patron saint.

Sometimes, even he himself was a little disgusted by this kind of reliability.

"And," Shuoyue continued, "although Xiaoyu is only ten years old, I am thirty-five years old. As a shrine maiden, it's a bit incredible to think that she can fight until this age. ”

"What's the matter!" Nalan Xuan disagreed, "As long as the state is maintained well, it is not impossible to fight for another ten years." ”

"No, because of me...... Tired. ”

This sentence is ridiculously false - that invincible Hakurei witch would say that she was tired!

Twenty years have passed, no matter what setbacks have been encountered, New Moon has never been discouraged, and this is the first time...... At the same time, probably for the last time.

Heroes will eventually lose to time, Nalan Hao knows this, but he doesn't want to admit it.

Because he is a vampire, an immortal being, he wants all the good things in the world to be with him. However, at the end of the day, this is nothing more than wishful thinking on his part. Eternal life means that all that he loves will go before him.

Nalan looked at Shuoyue's face quietly, at the extra wrinkles on her face, and at the few silver strands between her hair—he realized that Bo Li Shuoyue was indeed old.

It's a truly amazing experience for a vampire, who was a clumsy little girl yesterday and has been mistaken for his mom today.

So...... What about tomorrow?

Thinking like this, Nalan suddenly felt a wisp of irrepressible sadness in his chest, winding around the major arteries and tugging at his heart one after another. Shuoyue's desireless smiling face made his heart ache uncontrollably, so he stopped looking at her and turned his head to look out at the open door, the courtyard full of dead leaves.

From the front of me, to the distant horizon, it was as red as fire. The sunset sprinkled its last brilliance on the increasingly yellow earth, and the red leaves were all over the ground for a while, like thousands of flowers blooming, and it was beautiful. However, when this splendor is gone, there is an eternal night.

Time will never be frozen at a certain moment, the sun sets and the moon is born, spring goes to autumn, and flowers bloom. The act of trying to keep the time that has passed is like using a bamboo basket to fetch water, which is quite ......

It's worth a try.

"I've been flying in the skies for over twenty years and I've almost forgotten what it's like to be a human. "Almost, it's time to get back to the ground and enjoy life." That's why I've decided to officially retire from today and not be involved in the retreat of youkai!"

When the words fell, applause rang out, and among the people who applauded, there was a rain and an emperor, but there was no Nalan Twilight.

"It's okay, it's okay......" Nalan Yu propped his chin, looked at the remnant sun in the distance, and said lightly, "Anyway, there will always be such a day, it's better to come early than late......."

"So...... Xiaoyu!" He turned his head sharply and shouted, "Don't laugh like a fool, just because Shuoyue recognizes you as the next witch doesn't mean that I will admit it." With your three-legged cat's kung fu, if you are not more than half a mile from the house, you will have to be beaten by monsters all over the ground looking for teeth. ”

"Starting tomorrow, you will get up at six o'clock in the morning every day for special training, all year round!

"Eh, what's going on!"

The face of the rain shrugged down suddenly, from the complacent to the current desire to cry without tears, heaven and hell are just a line apart.

"That's it!" said Nalan Twilight, "So, enjoy your last meal! for years to come, I'll make sure you're too tired every day to taste anything!"

"So strict?"

The voice of the voice came from his own ear, and Nalan turned his head, only to find that there were already people around him, and what Youyuzi, Youji, Yakumo Purple, and Yakumo Blue all came, and gathered around the table. The bowl of rice that was originally placed in front of him was now in Yuyuko's hands, and half of it had been wiped out.

This is what this meal should look like! Anyway, this is also the retirement dinner of the New Year, cold and deserted, what kind of system.

"Blue, turn the wine on!" Zi beckoned, "There's a little brother here who is in a bad mood, shall we get him drunk?"

"Okay, support, up, little Zizi!"

Yuyuko swallowed the contents of her mouth, and said with rice grains still stained on her face.

"Are you kidding, Zi? I'm afraid that the whole table won't be able to drink me...... Xiaoyu, what are you laughing at, drink your juice obediently! A little kid who hasn't grown hair should also learn from adults to drink?"

"Eh—how?"

"Oh, you're very angry, this sensen. We just have a bottle of spirits brought back from Russia, don't we blow a bottle?"

"Okay, watch me perform!"

Starting from this bottle of wine, everything from there, in Nalan Twilight's eyes, is like a dream, beautiful, and unreal. How nice it would be if you woke up from a hangover one day and found that it was nothing more than a drunken dream!

It's a pity that he is a man who can never get drunk.