Chapter 25: Moon-Viewing
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The quiet summer night, like the inky sky, is dotted with a few stars. The full moon slowly rose up the treetops, inadvertently startling the birds perched on the branches. The gentle breeze brings bursts of lotus fragrance, and the frogs and cicadas in the distance appear and disappear, making the night more and more deep and quiet.
At this time, the entire Jimo City had fallen asleep.
Qingyin sat alone on the roof of the elegant room, drinking to the moon. Dressed in white with black hair, holding a white jade bottle, the bottle contains a concubine-colored liquid, which is the peach blossom wine that Ye Qian personally brewed by picking peach blossoms last spring and buried under the peach blossom tree for more than a year. When the Wang couple were still alive, because Wang Yu was good at wine, Wang Meng would make wine according to the season, and Ye Qian began to learn how to make various wines from Wang Meng from then on. Now that the Wang couple have passed away for more than three years, Ye Qian will still make wine according to the season as in previous years, and after the wine is put into the altar, he will silently bury them under the peach blossom tree in front of the kitchen in turn, and then sit under the tree in a daze, and sit for half a day. Although Ye Qian never mentioned the Wang couple in front of him, Qingyin knew that she had always been a child of affection.
Gently shook the jade bottle, approached and sniffed, the aroma of wine accompanied by a slight peach blossom aroma wafted out, Qingyin's slightly cold thin lips pursed slightly, he has never been very good at wine, so he has never tasted it, but it looks a little bit like it. After taking a small sip, the teeth and cheeks are fragrant, and the color and fragrance are indeed good. He has tasted a lot of Qiong Jelly Jade Brew, but it is not as warm and simple as this simple peach blossom brew, Qingyin was slightly surprised, but he also understood why Chenghuang would run to steal wine every three or five days, and he could get drunk every time.
The moonlight sprinkled a silver glow through the window, Ye Qian rarely had insomnia and couldn't fall asleep on the couch, and she didn't take the yellow to talk to her, so she simply got dressed and went out. The cold moon is clear and bright, the apricot tree is in the ancient well swing, the scenery in the courtyard is clearly visible, Ye Qian closed his eyes and took a deep breath, there was a faint sweet fragrance of flowers and fruits in the air, which made people feel comfortable, she stretched her waist comfortably, and when she raised her eyes, she found that there was a figure on the roof of the second floor of Yaqu. Although it was only the back, at this moment, the dark fragrance floated like water, and the moon was overshadowed by that person.
"Master?" Ye Qian was about to shout, and hurriedly covered his mouth, and tiptoed to the side to get the ladder. The ladder was set up where the two floors of the second attic mettic, far from the roof, and she lifted the hem of her skirt and climbed cautiously upward, holding her breath and trying not to make a sound.
The ladder was not high enough, Ye Qian stepped on the top section and only showed half of his head, looked at Qingyin's back, covered his mouth and smiled secretly, and suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Master!" When Qingyin turned her head, she hurriedly lowered her head to hide her figure.
I only heard his voice and didn't see anyone, but as soon as Qingyin raised his eyes, he saw Ye Qian's hand on the edge of the eaves that had already been exposed, and he couldn't help laughing.
"Hey, Master!" After a while, Ye Qian poked his head out suddenly, his hand pulled the thatch hanging down from the roof, his bright eyes looked at Shang Qingyin's gaze, he didn't succeed in his plan, but he had a feeling of being caught, and he stuck out his tongue and made a grimace.
Qingyin looked at Ye Qian's exaggerated little face with a smile, shook his head helplessly, and instructed, "Be careful, don't fall." ”
"Aren't you really scared?" Seeing that Qingyin was still elegant and calm, and she didn't look scared by herself at all, Ye Qian looked disappointed, and rubbed her face in frustration because she was a little sour because of her grimace.
Because of Ye Qian's movements, the ladder trembled slightly, her body fell backwards, and the thatch on the roof was immediately torn off by her strength to stabilize her balance, and there was some grass foam on her hair, and she looked down at it, Ye Qian exhaled a long sigh of surprise. Qingyin was afraid that she would really fall down if she rubbed on the ladder for a while, so she simply pointed her fingers, and her body slowly left the ladder and flew towards the roof.
Suddenly, his feet left the ladder and his body flew upwards instead of falling, Ye Qian exclaimed in surprise and opened his mouth wide, but he was more surprised than afraid, and after sitting down beside Qingyin, he was immediately attracted by the scenery in front of him. There are few two-story buildings in Jimo City, and at this time, the field of vision is naturally wide, the street market is scattered, and the river in front of the Yaqu Gate is sprinkled with clear light at this time, and she seems to be able to touch the white jade plate above her head as soon as she stretches out her hand.
With his elbows on his legs, Ye Qian held his face with both hands, his fingers bent slightly and tapped his face briskly, shaking his head and sighing: "Sure enough, it's best to see the scenery from a high place!" ”
Qingyin smiled silently, because she was worried that Ye Qian would be too excited and would accidentally fall backwards, so she kept her arm behind her. The breeze gusted, and the sweet fragrance of apricots floated in the air, as if he had discovered something, Qingyin frowned slightly, he didn't notice the breath of Chenghuang, and Chenghuang seemed to have already left Jimo City, and asked unhurriedly: "Shallow, Chenghuang went out?" ”
"Rhubarb...... Ye Qian pondered for a moment before he remembered, "It was said that the gate of the Demon and Demon Realms was opened tonight, and he went to join in the fun." Looking at Qingyin's slightly frowning brows, she couldn't help but worry, "Master, will there be any danger to rhubarb?" Under the influence of Wang Meng, Ye Qian has always felt that demons are very terrifying existences deep down, so when Cheng Huang said that she wanted to join in the fun, she was strongly opposed. But according to the temperament of Chenghuang, where Ye Qian is opposed, it is useful.
Qingyin's face was still light and light, she reached out and touched her head, and by the way, she cleaned up the grass foam on her head, and Wen Yan comforted: "It's okay, Master just asked." ”
"But Rhubarb is afraid of the ...... of the water system spell" Ye Qian became more and more worried, and he was not even in the mood to enjoy the scenery.
"Water spells also have limitations, and where there is no water, they cannot be used to their fullest." With a calm face, he continued: "Chenghuang is a divine beast, and his arrogant and domineering temperament will cause an accident to someone else. ”
"That's right." Ye Qian was relieved after thinking about it, holding his face, he couldn't help laughing, "Arrogant? Master's description is really too appropriate! ”
The two worlds of demons are self-contained, and there will be a meeting every five hundred years, and demons have always been the weakest and the strongest, although the gathering is lively, it is also the most dangerous time. Although Chenghuang is a divine beast, he has lost his original body, bullying Shang Ke who is weaker than him, if he encounters a demon with advanced cultivation, there is no possibility of escape, it is simply nonsense. Qingyin sighed helplessly, because his curiosity was swallowed by gluttony, and his true body did not have a long memory, his slender fingers secretly pinched himself, and when Ye Qian was counting the stars in the sky, a white crane condensed by divine power and surrounded by a silver shimmer flew away from behind them, flying towards the two worlds of demons and demons to find Chenghuang.
On the night of the full moon, the starlight was almost covered by the moonlight, counting but only a few stars, Ye Qian was no longer excited but a little sleepy, just when she was drowsy, suddenly a red shadow broke into the field of vision from east to west, Ye Qian was startled, and suddenly most of his sleepiness disappeared, and he stared at the sky with wide eyes. Although the distance was far away, it was still clear that the red shadow was actually a delicate woman in red, and for a moment they seemed to meet their eyes. After a slight hesitation, the woman in red frowned slightly, and then quickly left west.
See the fairy? Ye Qian blinked, turned his head to look at Qingyin, his eyes flashed with light, pointed to the sky of the moon and stars, and asked in surprise: "Master, someone flew by in the sky just now, did you see it?" ”
Bow slightly.
"Is it a god?"
Qingyin raised his neck and drank all the peach blossom wine in the jade bottle, flicked his sleeves, and replied, "It's a fox demon." ”
"Demon?" Ye Qian was a little disappointed, but aren't all monsters very hideous? How can a fox demon be so beautiful? Although Ye Qian's aura is heavy and easy to provoke demons, there is no demon in Qingyin who dares to take half a step closer to Yaqu, so she has never seen any monsters except for the black snake in the past ten years. Turning his head and supporting his chin with one hand, he looked at Qingyin's side face, blinked his eyes and asked curiously, "Master, where do the monsters usually live?" ”
"Living in the two worlds of demons and demons that coexist with the human world, but because the demon king and the demon king are negligent in management, most of the demons linger in the world."
"Do the immortals all live in the heavens?"
Ye Qian was interested, and quickly turned into a curious baby, and Qingyin also took the trouble to answer her question, "Yes, but not all, some will live in the fairy mountain spiritual land outside the square." ”
"Rhubarb said that God has transcended the Six Realms, so what are the Six Realms?" Ye Qian counted silently in his heart, it seems that it is the Five Realms, where did the Six Realms come from?
"Humans, ghosts, demons, and fairies, as well as the elven realm, it's just that the elves are not connected to the other five realms and are not seen."
His mind was not entirely focused on the answer, looking at Qingyin's jade-like face under the reflection of the moonlight, Ye Qian was slightly stunned. She really didn't seem to know anything about Master, his past, the people and things he had encountered, she really didn't know anything at all, and Master was omnipotent, omniscient, really like a god in the world. Ye Qian's heart sank, and she suddenly felt so scared, although they sat side by side like this, she felt that there was a long and endless river of time between them, and she would never be able to enter his world. He pursed his lips, pulled the hair that the wind blew in front of him behind his ears, and asked weakly tentatively, "Master, will God appear in the world?" ”
Qingyin was a little stunned, hesitated slightly, and then said, "No." Turning his head to look at Ye Qian, his clear eyes frowned slightly, he understood that Cheng Huang must have said something to her, if Ye Qian wanted to ask about his past next, how would he answer, not to deliberately hide something, but that distant and long story he didn't want to recall.
Looking at Shang Qingyin's gaze, Ye Qian nodded, but did not continue to ask. She said with Cheng Huang that the past is not important, she only believes what she sees with her eyes, although she is curious, she believes in Qingyin, unless Qingyin is willing to say, otherwise she will not ask.
A moment of silence.
Ye Qian looked up at the sky, and suddenly realized that she was really small, as far as heaven and earth were concerned, and it was also true for Qingyin, two thousand years was a long time that she couldn't imagine. Wrapping his hair around his fingers and playing in circles, he looked at Qingyin with clear eyes and asked, "Why did Master give me a name for the word 'shallow'?" She didn't understand it when she was a child, but now she seems to understand the deep meaning of the word Qingyinxuan. The fate of their encounter, whether it is ten years or a hundred years, is so shallow and insignificant for Qingyin's long life. In the next ten years and a hundred years, there will be no more children named 'Ye Qian' in this world, and he will gradually blur until he forgets her!
Ye Qian didn't continue to ask, Qingyin understood when he thought about it, and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, recalled slightly, and said with a slight smile: "At that time, when I went down the mountain, I walked in Shanyin, and the color of the leaves was much lighter than in the south of the mountain, and you happened to be Ye's family." ”
"What, what?" Ye Qian's fingers paused, the hair wrapped around her fingertips slowly loosened, and she looked at Qingyin in surprise, and it took a long time to recover from the shock, "I thought it was ......."
"Why?"
"No, it's nothing...... Ye Qianhe laughed dryly, "Master, your name is too casual!" ”
Looking at Ye Qian's bright smiling face in front of her, Qingyin couldn't help but think of her respect and fear of herself when she was a child, and she was always cautious in front of him, for fear of being abandoned. Qingyin smiled helplessly, frowned slightly, and sighed: "Obviously he was an obedient and sensible child when he was a child, how could he be spoiled by me like this." ”
Ye Qian reacted quickly, smiled playfully, and replied to him: "Master also said, I was spoiled by you." So Master, don't think about marrying me off, just keep spoiling me! "Being willful and angry in front of Qingyin is actually a manifestation of dependence, because in Ye Qian's subconscious, she thinks that no matter what wrong thing she does, in this world, there will definitely be someone who will forgive her unconditionally." Master, Rhubarb said, I have two thousand years to live, so I can stay with you forever, isn't it? Without waiting for Qingyin's answer, she turned her head to look at the mountains drowning in the night in the distance, and asked casually, "Actually, the medicinal soup that Master wanted to give me that day can be immortal, right?" She was overwhelmed by joy at the time and didn't understand it, but only later did she realize how Qingyin could suddenly ask her such strange and childish words.
"Yes." Now that Ye Qian knows it, Qingyin no longer hides it, "Changsheng is born in the north of Jiuzhi Mountain, it is actually a highly poisonous flower, and it can be boiled into medicine to keep young forever and immortal, but there is no antidote." ”
"Poisonous?" Ye Qian was a little puzzled, "Isn't immortality what the world wants?" How can it be highly toxic? ”
"If the immortality of all people is nothing, the immortality of one person is a catastrophe." Surrounded by sorrow, Qingyin seemed to smile: "If you don't die, you don't know how to live." ”
"Master......" I have never seen Qingyin like this, Ye Qian couldn't help but feel distressed, she thought, in fact, the master is lonely, otherwise she wouldn't always be in a daze for a long time, so that her clothes are stained with the fragrance of the paulownia wood, but it doesn't matter, she has two thousand years of life, and she can always be by his side. Slowly, cautiously leaning towards Qingyin's side, Ye Qian raised a smile and began to comfort him, "Master, because of loneliness, I feel that living is a torment, but Master will not be lonely in the future, Qianqian will always be by your side, and I will not feel lonely because of Master and Rhubarb." When life is extended, we will meet many people, see many landscapes, and experience many things, but just thinking about it will make us feel full of longing for the future, how can we feel that immortality is meaningless? ”
Looking at Ye Qian's smiling and flower-like appearance, Qingyin couldn't help but be infected by her optimism, but she didn't know that it was precisely because of her immortality that she needed to give up more, and she would see more life and death partings, which was especially difficult for her who was full of love and love. "Shallow, will you blame Master?"
Ye Qian was a little stunned, and after thinking about it, he realized that Qingyin was asking that day that he wanted her to drink the elixir of life without asking her, and shook his head, "How can I blame Master?" Immortality is what the world wants all their lives, and I got it so easily, shouldn't I be happy? His bright eyes were as clear as water, which were full of stars and silver light, he held his face in both hands, looked at Qingyin with a smile and said, "Master, this is my decision, and you didn't force me to do this, if I still complain about Master, wouldn't it seem that I am very unreasonable?" ”
"Chenghuang's spell is no better than the immortal flower, his spell can be solved. If you regret your choice today in the future, you must remember to tell Master that He will find a way to fulfill you. Qingyin frowned slightly, sighed lightly, but the words were not complete, everything has a time limit, if the third fragment is fused, even if Ye Qian wants to regret it at that time, he does not have the ability to reverse the situation.
Will she regret it, it was a long, long time later, Ye Qian didn't know, and he didn't want to think about it now, so he asked instead: "Master said that he needed my help that day, what was it?" ”
"Looking for a fragment of a deceased friend's soul."
"Master's old friend is very important to Master, isn't he?" Although Qingyin's tone was indifferent, Ye Qian knew that that person must be very important to him, and there was a sour feeling in her heart, she gathered her mind, waved away the strangeness in her heart, frowned lightly, and then asked: "Is the light of Tian Minyu Perry been?" But why do I feel like there's a sense of familiarity, a feeling like, as if we were once one? ”
"There are some things that can't be explained clearly now, and Master will definitely tell you slowly in the future." Qingyin didn't say much, his slender and beautiful fingers lifted the wine jar, held the jade bottle in his right hand, and filled it with a glass, and then drank it all with a frown.
"Oh." Ye Qian pursed her lips, although there were many doubts in her heart, Qingyin didn't want to say it, so she could only hold back. took a deep breath, turned his head and continued to admire the moon, no matter what, no matter what it was, for whom, as long as he thought of being able to help Qingyin, Ye Qian would feel very happy! The bright moon and stars, like the ink sky, the figures of the two people look so small, and the breeze lifts the hair hanging behind them, occasionally intertwined together. After a long time, tiredness hit, and Ye Qian didn't know when he fell asleep leaning on Qingyin's shoulder.
Ye Qian could sense the existence of the fragments, Qingyin should have been happy, but it was not a taste in his heart. He inadvertently rescued her and took her in to save her from suffering, not to pull her into a situation from which she could never recover. Looking at Ye Qian, who was still frowning after falling asleep, Qingyin sighed softly, and said lightly with thin lips: "Qianqian, as long as you are by Master's side for a day, Master will take care of you wholeheartedly and give everything I have to compensate you." ”