Chapter 34: The New Year is Approaching

Under normal circumstances, Shi Qingyi's idea is right, but the reason why life is full of variables is because accidents are everywhere, if the Da Ming Zun Sect really does something to Li Yuan's father and son...... Shi Qingyi lowered his head and laughed, they are far away in Shanxi, Hedong, so far away from Luoyang, they can't control it! That's it, who pollutes, who cleans up, has their own business to be busy, and who has the time to meddle in things.

Later facts proved that Shi Qingyi expected the beginning, but did not anticipate the end. Therefore, the so-called unexpected events completely disrupted the pace of her actions.

Even if more than 100 heads of believers in the Daming Zun Sect who came to Shanxi to preach, Li Yuan and his son have not been assassinated, at the end of the year, they got a holiday, to go back to Luoyang for the New Year, speaking of which, they have been gone for more than half a year, the Li family is very much missed, and now when they hear the news that the head of the family Li Yuan and the second son are coming back, they also happily began to arrange, saying that they want a good family to get together. Happy money, new clothes, festive window flowers, tributes for the elders, and things that need to be replaced, both the master and the servants are very happy and busy, even the cold weather has not blown away the happiness brought by this New Year, looking at their joyful appearance, Shi Qingyi suddenly woke up, it turned out that unconsciously, time has passed quickly, and the twelve years of the great cause have been approaching rapidly, and it is coming soon. "Twelve years of great cause!" Shi Qingyi muttered, soon, she will be seventeen years old, and in this ancient martial arts world, she has spent the seventeenth New Year. In fact, until now, she can't tell whether this world is real or not, perhaps, on the contrary, the gradually blurred modern memory is false, just an unrealistic dream...... Shaking his head, Shi Qingyi expelled these thoughts from his mind, now is not the time to think about these things, whether it is true or not, it is the right choice for him to maintain a serious attitude and live.

Li Yuan's father and son returned home two days before the New Year, because they were busy with official business, they had to leave after 15 years, and more than 20 years, whether it was long or short, both father and son were very satisfied. In any case, going home for the New Year is a very beautiful thing.

The day before Chinese New Year's Eve, there was heavy snow in the sky, and it fell all over the ground, covering the entire eastern capital Luoyang, and the children were happily playing various games about snow outside the house, although the adults were worried, they did not stop it, because it was a children's game. Shi Qingyi wore a thick warm cloak, standing outside the room and watching the children play games, with a happy smile on her face, looking at these children, she remembered her former self and had done such interesting things. Li Shimin stood beside her and saw her expression, "Why, I remembered my former self." Shi Qingyi nodded slightly: "Yes, but once a person grows up, he can't go back." There was no lack of melancholy in his tone, and Li Shimin was very unhappy when he heard it, "If you can't go back, you can't go back, what's there to miss," he said, "When you grow up, you naturally have to do adult things, children's things, in addition to games, what else can you have." Shi Qingyi turned his head to look at Li Shimin, now the young man has faded away from his original immaturity, after many things, as well as the tempering on the battlefield, he has grown up and become a lot more mature, but his bright and divine eyes still unabashedly reveal the yearning and persistence for the future, Shi Qingyi shook his head slightly, too much, Li Shimin is too persistent and future, in fact, the most important thing in life is the present. The future is unpredictable, and the past has become a reminiscence, which can neither be changed nor predicted.

However, Shi Qingyi smiled bitterly, whether it was the old lady Dugu, or the empty one, or even Gao Shuyun, they all persuaded themselves to give up their attachment to the past and pay attention to the present.

"What did the adults do!" Shi Qingyi smiled, "Murder and arsonist?" Li Shimin's face suddenly turned very ugly. Fortunately, after a long time with Shi Qingyi, Li Shimin has an immune effect on Shi Qingyi's poisonous tongue, although his face is not good-looking, but he is not like thunder, he looked at Shi Qingyi, and then smiled: "You are so great, I really wronged you if you don't go home to be a nun." "It's very vicious, it seems that people have been getting along with people for a long time, and the problem of poisonous tongue can also be contagious, but for Li Shimin's counterattack, Shi Qingyi is very calm, "In fact, Buddhism and I really have a deep relationship." Shi Qingyi said to Li Shimin, her tone was as usual, as if Li Shimin's words were just a trivial matter for her. Then she turned her head to the other side, and continued to watch the children there playing happily in the snow. Li Shimin was naturally very depressed, so he simply hid to the side to look at the sky, the ground, and the scenery. I have to say that the weather on New Year's Eve was very cold, Li Shimin stayed far away from the crowd, and naturally felt even colder, and the so-called scenery naturally had nothing to see, so his eyes were actually unconsciously looking at Shi Qingyi, thinking that Shi Qingyi would suddenly do something embarrassing and ugly. In fact, he had been staring at Shi Qingyi for a long time, but unfortunately, such an opportunity would never appear in front of him. Although Shi Qingyi is indifferent and deliberately keeps a distance from others, there is absolutely no lack of daily behavior, etiquette is thoughtful, and perfection is not like a person, which is also Li Shimin's most doubtful place, it stands to reason that a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, no matter what, will not be like a puppet, and she can hardly feel a person's anger. Li Shimin has seen many people, but no one has ever been like Shi Qingyi.

"If she's really a carved puppet, then at least her face should be prettier! It's as ordinary as it is now. Li Shimin muttered quietly. looked at Shi Qingyi's face, but his mouth was not clean and counted the shortcomings on Shi Qingyi's face, "In addition to the eyes are pure and bright, I really can't see any advantages!" Li Shimin whispered to himself, seeing that Shi Qingyi was still smiling and watching the group of children playing, but his eyes showed a very rare gentle expression, as if he had been hit the head, and in an instant, Li Shimin's voice was dumb. Would she have those eyes? Shocked by Shi Qingyi's very rare gentle eyes, Li Shimin actually hoped that this look could last for a long time in an instant. If she can always face herself like this, then it should be okay to get along like this! Li Shimin thought unconsciously.

Shi Qingyi watched the children play and fell into a trance, and after coming back to her senses, she remembered many things. After being reborn, she has never had any games with snow, Shuzhong is located in a hot area, it is rare to snow in winter, even if it snows a little, it will melt quickly, there is no opportunity to play, and after Shu, Shi Qingyi has been busy, so she ignored the scenery of this winter, until now, she suddenly woke up, it turned out that many things, she had long forgotten about jì.

Perhaps because the scene in front of her was too addictive, Shi Qingyi uncharacteristically let go of her vigilance, focused on what she was thinking, and revealed it in her eyes, and this qiē was watched by the young man who had been watching her, not far away.

Li Shimin didn't notice it, not far from him, Li Xiuning was looking at him, and seeing that he had been staring at Shi Qingyi's figure, Li Xiuning was very annoyed.

In a remote place, Li Xiuning dragged her second brother here, "Second brother, tell me the truth, do you have a crush on your second sister-in-law?" She looked at Li Shimin and asked with a solemn face. Li Shimin was wondering why the little sister brought her over, and after listening to Li Xiuning's words, he not only smiled dumbly: "How is it possible, I am still thinking about Cousin Ji'er, and the little sister is thinking too much." Seeing that his expression didn't look like a fake, Li Xiuning relaxed slightly, but still couldn't stop the question in his heart: "Then why, you keep staring at her, she is so ordinary, can there be any place that attracts you so much?" "Is that so? Li Shimin really didn't think about it carefully, he thought about it for a long time before answering Xiaomei's question, "Probably, it's because you have to live together for a lifetime, so you unconsciously want to observe her!" As soon as this sentence was spoken, Li Xiuning immediately became angry, "Second brother, you also said that you didn't take a fancy to her, you have to live with her for the rest of your life, didn't you say that you only love Yang Jier alone in this life, is it possible that you actually see one and love another, and if you have a new person and forget the old one, in that case, I really look down on you!" Li Xiuning said hatefully, the eldest lady of the Li family is extremely longing for love, in Li Xiuning's heart, love cannot be said to be earth-shattering, at least it must be said to be unswerving. So for the second brother's persistent love, she is absolutely strong support, and now seeing the second brother's betrayal of love, it is a huge loss in Li Xiuning's heart, which makes her difficult to accept for a while, "Are you still my original second brother?" ”

After listening to Li Xiuning's words, Li Shimin was surprised at first, and then, he carefully sorted out his thoughts, and then looked at Li Xiuning's resentful face and said his typed draft: "Because love and marriage are not the same thing." Li Shimin said, his voice with a hint of melancholy, as if he was remembering the untouchable past, "For Yang Jier, my love for her is still the same, but I also know that this love can only stay in the bottom of my heart, we can't be together, she was born in the royal family, and I will never choose me who already has a family, and I, as a descendant of the Li family, naturally have to obey the wishes of my mother and grandmother, at least, I have to try, maybe, I can live like this for a lifetime!" "I still look forward to it, but I will no longer pursue ethereal and unattainable dreams, this is probably a sign of maturity, Li Shimin, after many things, has become mature.

But Li Xiuning is not him, without Li Shimin's experience, he can't understand the meaning of the words that the second brother said, she looked at the second brother, and only felt that her second brother had become very strange, "You have changed, you are no longer my familiar second brother!" Li Xiuning's face was full of disappointment. Now that you have chosen to compromise, then I have nothing to say to you. Li Xiuning stomped his feet hatefully and turned to leave. Looking at the figure of his little sister leaving, Li Shimin smiled bitterly, he who can accept the reality, perhaps, is really no longer himself as before.

Chinese New Year's Eve, it is said that because there is a fierce beast called Xi, after being surrendered by the gods, it is only released at the end of each year to harm people, because it comes out to do evil every New Year, so after a long time, everyone calls the Xi beast the New Year beast, the New Year beast is afraid of fire, light, afraid of loud noise, therefore, every New Year, every household lights up the lamp, set off firecrackers, in order to drive away the New Year beast, and later passed down from generation to generation, it has become a variety of customs for the New Year.

The legend is not true, but the rules still have to be followed, in addition to putting on the lights all night, in addition to setting off firecrackers, people also have to sit all night, but the requirements will not be so rigid, if someone is sleepy, you can also go back to the room to sleep, but because of the conscious compliance of the elders, most people will still insist.

Shi Qingyi felt that she couldn't disrupt the biological clock for the so-called rules, so she left the main hall early, and wanted to go back to her room, when she walked through the courtyard, she saw the outside of the courtyard wall, and it was also like the Li family, full of lights and shadows, too, the Li family's neighborhood was full of dignitaries, and naturally like the Li family, the lights were everywhere, and because it was an official eunuch's house, he was not afraid of spending money, so the place where the lights could be put up would never let it darken, so in this area of the nobles' residence, It turned out to be with daylight. "Really, extravagantly!" Shi Qingyi didn't bother to calculate how many candles would be used this night, but he also knew that it was absolutely indispensable. However, on such an auspicious day, it is too much to care about the cost, and it is really a bit picky.