It's the height of summer, and the weather at night is not cold, but it is very cool, but the only thing that bothers us is that there are many mosquitoes.

When Bai Ming came back, what he saw was that Cao Xinye was still stubbornly looking at the moon while driving away mosquitoes, but he didn't have the calm feeling he had a few days ago, but faintly revealed a little cuteness, and his mood was much better for no reason.

Cao Xinye heard the movement, suddenly turned his head and stood up, his clear amber eyes revealed a little sharp, staring straight at the void above the courtyard wall, Bai Ming chuckled, turned over and jumped down.

Cao Xinye saw that it was him, and unconsciously showed a bright smile, and said to him in a cheerful voice: "You are here~"

For some reason, he suddenly felt that this scene was familiar, as if a long, long time ago, there was also a girl waiting for him to come back, and when he thought about it, his head was torn and painful, and his face couldn't help but twist.

In a trance, Bai Ming felt a hand grab his arm, and a voice asked anxiously, "What's wrong with you?"

The bright smiling face flashed in front of him, the elegant snow lotus fragrance was in his nose, he subconsciously grabbed the soft hand, the touch was slippery, slightly cold, and the palm was slightly wet, presumably sweating.

Thinking of this, Wen Ren Bai Ming woke up suddenly, and his consciousness returned, and in front of him was the pretty face of the girl who was slightly wrinkled together because of worry, her thin eyebrows frowned, her small mouth pouted, and she was playful in her beauty.

Suddenly reacting that this posture was too ambiguous, Bai Ming let go of Cao Xinye's hand in a panic, and he was also handsome at this time, his face was slightly red.

He wore a pure white robe today, embroidered with dark silver flowers, delicate and gorgeous, and his face was as white as jade, and now his handsome face was red, just like the plum blossom in the early snow, noble and gorgeous.

But she didn't go out for a long time, she didn't realize that there was anything wrong, at this time she covered her mouth slightly and snickered, and the smiling Bai Ming's face turned even redder, seeing this scene, Cao Xinye was even more happy, and even laughed out loud.

Hearing this, Bai Ming turned his face away in annoyance, and his tone was not good: "What are you laughing at!"

Hearing that Cao Xinye was still laughing, he felt embarrassed after all, and subconsciously turned around and left, but Cao Xinye pulled his sleeve, he turned his head to look, Cao Xinye had faded his smiling face and looked at him calmly.

The moonlight was hazy, softly enveloping Cao Xinye's somewhat pale face, like a veil, separating her from mundane things, holy and ethereal, and his clear eyes reflected his shadow.

He suddenly felt that this was very good, it was very good, what fairies and monsters, joys and sorrows, don't care, it is also good to go on like this forever.

The moon hangs in the sky, giving off a soft light, the clouds gently drift in the dark sky, the unknown flowers and plants on the wall slowly sway, and the breeze mixed with the faint fragrance of lotus, the atmosphere is calm and peaceful.

I don't know how long it took, Cao Xinye suddenly smiled at him, and almost stabbed him in the eye, and then turned around and ran into the house, Bai Ming didn't react at once, and asked at once, "Why are you going?"

followed a few hurried steps forward, and suddenly reacted that this was inappropriate, and stood still.

Cao Xinye turned around and shouted happily at him: "It's easy to come here, let's play chess!" The lively tone was full of endless desolation.

After a while, Cao Xinye ran over with a chessboard and placed it in front of the futon in the courtyard, the chessboard and chess pieces were made of marble, and they were cool and comfortable in their hands.

Cao Xinye took the lead in kneeling on the futon, Bai Ming had regained his composure, slowly paced, elegantly lifted his long robe, slowly knelt down and sat down, calmly bowed, picked up the white child, and said politely: "Girl, please first." ”

Cao Xinye heard him return to a polite and indifferent tone, a faint sense of loss suddenly swelled in his heart, his brows frowned slightly, he subconsciously lowered his eyelids, and shook his head irritably, Bai Ming asked in surprise when he saw this: "Are you uncomfortable?"

Cao Xinye raised his eyes in a panic, like a frightened rabbit, but quickly calmed down and chuckled back: "No, it's just that I'm suddenly a little irritable, let's play chess." ”

After speaking, he picked up a sunspot between his two fingers and said, "Then I'll go down first." Bai Ming stared at Cao Xinye's face carefully, and found that her face was as usual, so he breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

Cao Xinye slowly put the chess pieces in the center, this is not an ordinary way of playing, Bai Ming raised his eyebrows in surprise, but he didn't ask.

After thinking about it for a while, he put Bai Zi in one of the four corners with a slight smile, and stared up at Cao Xinye, his smile was very harmless, but his eyes were deep and waveless, there was no smile, only the helplessness and desolation of seeing through the world.

As soon as Cao Xinye raised his head, he bumped straight into Bai Ming's narrow Danfeng eyes, and for a moment he felt like a black hole, as if he was going to suck people in.

Originally, she was inattentive just now, but she was stunned for a while, and it took a long time to come back to her senses, secretly scolding herself for being so embarrassed, and holding a chess piece in her hand to divert her attention.

The atmosphere gradually became a little awkward.

Until Bai Ming asked playfully, "Aren't you going to fall behind?"

She hurriedly slapped the chess pieces in her hand on the chessboard with a bang, and the original two chess pieces on it shook with the chessboard a few times.

With the lesson just now, Cao Xinye no longer looked up at Bai Ming, but concentrated on thinking about the chess game.

As time slowly passed, there were more and more chess pieces on the chessboard, and the brows of the two became deeper and deeper, as if there was an invisible aura spreading directly across the two.

I don't know how long it took, when the 19 vertical and horizontal paths on the chessboard were almost full, Bai Ming said: "I win you a son, it's a narrow victory." ”

In fact, Bai Ming did not do his best, and he looked at the gentle and indisputable chess method, but in fact, he did not leak anything, and grasped the overall situation quietly.

Cao Xinye saw this and tried his best to break through, but he didn't succeed.

If you lose, you lose, Cao Xinye put down the chess pieces in his hand, not happy or sad: "It's been a long time since anyone played chess with me, and it seems that the chess games I've watched over the years have not been seen in vain, but this time I played a happy game." ”

Bai Ming laughed, his eyes swept over Cao Xinye, his brows were unconsciously locked, Cao Xinye's face, in the moonlight, was sickly pale, faintly tinged with a kind of cyan, as if the oil had run out, Bai Ming thought of this, and stood up suddenly, with a panic on his face that he didn't notice:

"Seriously, are you unwell?"

The arm stretched out as if he wanted to touch the temperature of Cao Xinye's forehead, and when he stretched it halfway, he found that it was inappropriate, and stiffly withdrew it and put it behind his back.

Cao Xinye also stood up. With a doubtful look on his face, seeing Bai Ming so nervous about himself, his heart was sweet, and before he could answer, a feeling of dizziness hit him suddenly, and he was about to stand unsteadily.

Bai Mingyan quickly helped her, Cao Xinye felt the touch on his arm, and smiled apologetically: "Thank you, I suddenly felt a little dizzy, but now it's fine." ”

Seeing this, Bai Ming's eyebrows tightened, and he looked at Cao Xinye from top to bottom, and when he swept it to Cao Xinye's arm, he paused slightly, and said in surprise: "What is this?"

Cao Xinye followed his gaze and was also shocked. On the right arm, there is a mark that looks like a snow lotus, which glows with a faint cyan fluorescence in the dark night, and through the lake-blue gauze dress, it is beautiful, very elegant, not like a mortal, and I don't feel strange.

Cao Xinye touched it cautiously, but there was no reaction at all, just like ordinary skin.

So I just said suspiciously: "I don't know, it hasn't appeared before, and there is no reaction to touching it, it should... Harmless, right?" said the last sentence, and she herself was out of confidence.

Suddenly, he saw that Bai Ming's right arm was also faintly glowing with white light, grabbed his hand, and lifted his wide sleeve up, and sure enough, he saw a delicate and ancient red lotus imprint tattooed on it, emitting a dazzling red light, much brighter than hers.

Bai Ming was startled, frowned and touched it, and sure enough, he didn't feel anything, "Is this again?"

"I shouldn't reveal too much about your fate, and then you will know that this seal is harmless, and may even help you, so don't worry about it. ”

The voice of the ancient vicissitudes suddenly echoed in the heaven and earth, and the unquestionable tone made people unconsciously convinced and stable, no matter how profound Bai Ming's internal force was, he could never feel the direction of the old man.

Cao Xinye couldn't help but shout: "Then who are you?" The echo spread around and around, but the old man never replied, as if he had disappeared.

When he came back to his senses, Bai Ming found that Cao Xinye was still holding his hand, and his sleeves were not put down, and he coughed slightly uncomfortably and put down his sleeves.

After struggling with his hand, Cao Xinye let go very naturally, turned around and fiddled with the chess pieces, his nerves were so big that he was speechless, but he was a big man and squirmed there.

Bai Ming probed the temperature of his face with his hand, and when he felt normal, he asked, "What do you think of this?"

Cao Xinye played with the black chess pieces in one hand, the pure black chess pieces rotated on the green and white fingertips, and the green silk hanging on his chest with one hand was casually wisps, the black and white contrast was extraordinarily obvious, and he said lazily without hurry: "This matter, whatever." ”

She suddenly didn't want to care so much, she was lazy and didn't want to move, and the excitement of seeing the visitor before had almost been consumed, and she was lazy again.

Over the years, she has been lying lazily every day, occasionally playing the flute, practicing chess, and reading a book.

Bai Ming is a person who strives for excellence, so he was not satisfied with Cao Xinye's ambiguous answer, so he raised his nasal voice, and the tail note was a little majestic and a little chilly.

Cao Xinye didn't know what was wrong, but when she heard it, she actually trembled, and immediately smiled at Bai Ming with a little flattery:

"I mean, it's useless to think so much now, didn't that old man say it's fate, don't worry about it. ”

He nodded with satisfaction, looked up and saw the moon in the sky, turned his head to Cao Xinye and said, "I'll go first, this matter is too weird, don't tell others, I'll come to see you in a few days." ”

Cao Xinye said slightly self-deprecatingly: "Who will I tell to go?" ”

Seeing the silence on her face, Bai Ming felt a slight pain in his heart, and pretended to say, "You...... Do you want to be my sister?"

Cao Xinye raised his head, and suddenly there was a black line: "Ah, if you want to be my sister, let's be my sister!"

Bai Ming obviously also noticed this, coughed a few times in embarrassment, and changed the subject: "Ah, look how good this flower blooms!" Cao Xinye looked at his hand, it was a pile of grass......

Bai Ming looked at Cao Xinye's face, and also saw the pile of grass, and then pointed in a panic, "I remember wrong, it should be this, oh, no, it's this." ”

In the end, his own face turned red and found that there were no flowers, and the fragrance of flowers was the fragrance of lotus flowers outside the wall, and he immediately stood there with a red face, and finally he himself felt very ashamed, so he simply turned over the wall neatly, and the snow-white clothes floated up, and the whole person disappeared into the darkness.

However, his purpose was achieved, because after he left, Cao Xinye couldn't breathe with laughter, and the silver bell-like laughter was extremely pleasant in the dark night.

Bai Ming returned to the house and was secretly annoyed, why were he so stupid for a pair of girls?

Thinking of what happened just now, his face turned red again, and the secret guard beside him quietly snickered: "Young master, do you have a crush on a young lady who is so red?"

He forced himself to be calm: "What are you talking about, is your skin itchy!"

Bai Ji bowed repeatedly, but his tone was smiling: "Yes, yes, our wise and martial little master is hot, that's why his face is so red, it's not lovesick." ”

He thought about the strange events tonight, and he was not in the mood to laugh, Bai Ji saw that his face was gradually solemn, and knew that he wanted to get down to business, so he quietly withdrew.

He lifted the sleeve of his left arm, but unexpectedly found that it was just an ancient multi-petaled red lotus, and it no longer shone, and the dark red lines seemed to be embedded in the skin.

Thinking of today's voice of unknown origin and indistinct direction, I faintly felt very familiar, and when I thought about it carefully, my head was in sharp pain, and I couldn't remember whether I was dead or alive, and I didn't know whether that person was friend or foe, and whether this matter was a blessing or a curse......