The lantern courtyard is late for a long time, and the swing is styled. Thinking about the autumn moon, thinking when, the people in the moon, when will the wind return?

The moonlight is bright, the residual chrysanthemums in the courtyard are in full bloom, after the autumn rain, the weather is slightly cool, I don't know why it rained yesterday, and there is moonlight today.

"Childe, there is a lantern festival tomorrow, do you want to go and see it? It's very lively. ”

Qi Niang came out of the house, took a coat in her hand, and wanted to put it on Ning Chaolai's body, but was blocked.

Ning Chaolai asked, "Qi Niang, is everything okay in Zizhu Building?" ”

"Okay, okay, it's all about doing their own thing, but the court is very well governed, the son is not there, and someone wants to leave."

Qi Niang sighed again and again, thinking that when Ning Chaolai was in Zizhu Tower, the whole building was not afraid of life and death, but now that Ning Chaolai is not here, all of them are in chaos, and there are more and more people who are greedy for life and afraid of death day by day, and Zizhu Tower is no longer what it used to be.

Ning Chaolai looked up at Qi Niang's white hair, and couldn't help but sigh, Qi Niang is also old, less than a year old, worried, and tortures people to old age.

"Disperse, the life on the knife is not what ordinary people should live, after all, it is not the right way, and the court is eyeing them, don't embarrass them, let them go if they want to go."

Ning Chaolai's voice was soft, without a trace of ups and downs, if it was the past, she would definitely say that it was okay to leave, and she would leave her life behind.

Instead of being overly merciful, as is the case now.

In fact, it's not that Ning Chaolai is willing to be merciful, it's just that the wounds she suffered are too great, and she can't heal in a day or two, she is plagued by the blood every night, and she always feels that if she leaves a way for others to live, she can have fewer sins.

To be merciful to others is not to be merciful to oneself.

Now that more than half a year has passed, she is still sad, her heart is difficult to solve, and she always has nightmares when she dreams back at midnight.

She always said that she wanted to see them, but she was afraid to see them, and the blood was dripping one by one, and every time she saw them, the guilt in her heart would increase by a point.

It's a debt, and she has to pay it back, but what will she pay back except for one life?

"I've been watching the moon for two hours, so I'm not bored."

Uncle Tai approached, took the robe in Qi Niang's hand, and draped it on Ning Chaolai's body.

Qi Niang smiled and left the yard with interest.

"Chaolai, do you think of them again? I know, know that they are very important in your heart, but in the future, you have to leave a place for me, and you have been lukewarm to me for half a year. ”

Under the moonlight, Uncle Tai was dressed in white, looking condescendingly at the people in the wheelchair, like a fairy who had been left behind.

Ning Chaolai stared at the remnants of the golden chrysanthemum that had been blown away by the wind in the courtyard, and was silent.

Over the years, she has failed so many people, how can she accept another relationship with peace of mind after she has been disappointed?

She can't, can't do that.

Uncle Tai squatted down, held Ning Chaolai's hand, and said,

"In the morning, I feel uncomfortable in your heart, you said that you want to sit in a wheelchair, as long as you are comfortable, even if you sit for the rest of your life, I am willing to follow you, but you don't want me, now I have nothing, you still don't want me."

Uncle Tai was just waiting for fear, waiting and waiting in the past, waiting for despair, and he was afraid that the current waiting would also become another kind of despair.

"It's getting late, so you should rest early."

Ning Chaolai wanted to leave, but Uncle Tai refused to let him.

Holding Ning Chaolai's hand tightly and refusing to let go, Uncle Tai said sullenly,

"Come on, you accompany me, just talk to me."

"I'm tired, let's talk about it tomorrow."

Ning Chaolai insisted on going back to the room, his eyebrows were unchanged and cold, and every bit of emotion was covered by the coldness on his face.

Uncle Tai let go of his hand, stepped back, and watched Ning Chaolai paddle away in a wheelchair.

He didn't know when Ning Chaolai would open the door of his heart.

Qi Niang said that Ning Chaolai couldn't let go, saying that Ning Chaolai had suffered so many variables and suffered too many blows, and he couldn't return to his senses for a while.

What about Ning Chaolai? always thought that so many people couldn't have happiness because she died.

What about Uncle Tai? If Ning Chaolai can't have happiness, he can't give Ning Chaolai happiness.

On the night of the second day, the Shangyuan Lantern Festival.

Ning Chaolai didn't want to join in such a lively scene, but Qi Niang kept talking in her ear, and Ning Chaolai had no choice but to go.

The night lights are like day, and the stalls of various colors are full of lanterns of different styles, large and small, and colorful and green.

The customs here are not as open as Chang'an, the men who come to the lamp market are dressed in gorgeous clothes, all of them are tied with jade crowns, and they are tied around their waists, while the women are curled up with long hair, covered with veils, and do not apply powder.

Ning Chaolai sat in a wheelchair and calmly looked at the towering building, the building is called Qiuyue Tower, the legend is that it was built for the old moon to pull the red line, the building is wrapped with red threads, and the line is full of red cloth strips, that is the marriage belt.

The moonlight sprinkled in the Qiuyue Tower, and the red ribbons fluttering all over the building, which made Ning Chaolai's heart treme.

"Hey, whose little lady is this, born with such red lips and white teeth."

The familiar drama was sung, and Ning Chaolai was shocked, and his eyes widened to find the old man in the crowd.

She looked around, calling Liu Lan's name loudly, nervous, eager, hopeful, and couldn't wait for a moment.

"Childe, there is no Young Master Liu here, you calm down."

Before Qi Niang finished speaking, Ning Chaolai had already gotten up and turned on the lantern in her hand, and staggered forward, but in the blink of an eye, she disappeared.

Ning Chaolai heard Liu Lan's voice, in the middle of the crowd, she found them, they were all dressed in red, and they smiled at her, so she hurriedly chased after them, but no matter how she chased them, even if they were in front of her, she reached out to grab them, but she still couldn't catch them.

When I finally caught up, I was in the Qiuyue Building, there was a stone table in the building, and there were three people around the table, who were holding a pen to write inscriptions on the red belt.

Liu Lan was the first to put down the brush and read softly, "The sea is dry and the rocks are rotten, and the hatred is not buried in the loess." ”

Chu Li and Xu Shaoqiao nodded in approval and said yes in succession.

Liu Lan smiled and asked the other two to read out what they had written.

Chu Li smiled lightly and pointed to the mountain opposite Qiuyue Tower, which was nothing more than a vague outline, and he said,

"One thought is pure, one thought is flashy, the lotus falls into the red dust, how many people can cross?"

Liu Lan clapped her hands and applauded, and looked at Xu Shaoqiao with Chu Li, Xu Shaoqiao had no choice but to stand up, but walked in front of her step by step, looked into her eyes, and said,

"The ruthless bright moon, the love returns to the dream, and returns to the boudoir."

Even if the catastrophe is gone, even if he is lovesick, he treats her eyebrows and eyes as before, and the years are the same.

Ning Chaolai stretched out a hand, wanting to touch the face that had been obsessed with her mind for a long time, but the man had already turned around and left in front of her.

The three of them sat around the stone table again, looking up to the sky and laughing from time to time, so that they were not wanton and arrogant, and their red clothes flew up, like Buddhas and demons.

Ning Chaolai hurriedly stepped forward to touch it, but she couldn't reach it, her fingertips went straight through their bodies, cold, just a gust of wind.

She picked up the red belt on the table and looked at it again and again, but there was still not a word on the red belt.

She clenched the red ribbon tightly and called their names in a loud voice, but none of them would pay attention, they just laughed with each other, talked about the prosperous rivers and mountains, and talked about the past and the present, but no matter what she did, they didn't seem to see her.

"Are you all right?" She asked cautiously, full of sadness.

A lantern approached, and the candlelight lit up, illuminating the three people at the table more and more transparently. They walked nervously to the edge of the building, whispered a few words to each other, and then rode away.

"Shaoqiao, cousin, Chu Li!"

Ning Chaolai exclaimed and ran to the place where the three of them disappeared, holding the cold railing with both hands, looking at the empty blue sky, and couldn't help crying bitterly.

Suddenly, one person grabbed her elbow, and when she turned around, it was Uncle Huan, who was dressed in white, and put a lantern at his feet, and it was this light that scared the three away.

Ning Chaolai waved Uncle Tai's hand away vigorously, just wanting to burn the lantern with one fire.

"In the future, they will not come back, and they will not come back forever. You can see them because I lit incense in your room last night, and it will make you delirious. Everything you see is just your obsession, you always think that they are not gone, but they are really gone. ”

"Shut up!" Ning Chaolai roared angrily, tears blurred her vision, she pointed at Uncle Tai's forehead angrily, and said, "If you hadn't appeared, how could they have left in a panic, it's all your fault!" ”

"Yes. It's all my fault. Uncle Tai looked at Ning Chaolai's face, and his voice became choked, "They all died for you, and I am the only one left alive, which is indeed my fault." In the morning, seeing you riddled with nightmares, not at peace, ashamed every day, repenting every day, living in self-blame all the time, but I can't do anything, I only hate that the person who died at the beginning was not me. It's my mistake, even God wants to punish me, and want me to watch you suffer, but I can't do anything about it. But in the past, you hurt and you are tired, and so am I, I can't hold on. Rather than being ignored and rejected by you, I would rather be like them and let you remember with a death. ”

Uncle Tai lifted the lantern on the ground and held it up in front of Ning Chaolai, and the bright light illuminated the appearance of the two.

This lantern is not special, it is made of yellowish rice paper, with a peach blossom on one side and a plum blossom on the other, all of which are full of flowers and petals.

Uncle Tai chuckled and said, "This lantern has a riddle, let's talk about it." ”

Flowers bloom on both sides, one spring and one winter, and the mystery is that winter ends in spring, which is an auspicious saying.

Ning Chaolai said, "Flowers bloom in two lives, and life is between Buddha and demons." ”

She is half a Buddha, half a demon, life and death, and the road ahead is confused.

Uncle Tai was noncommittal, put the lantern in Ning Chaolai's hand, wiped the tears on Ning Chaolai's face with his hand, and said with a smile,

"I bought it for fifty taels of silver, just because I didn't guess the riddle correctly, what I'm saying is that I didn't hear back to each other back then, and I sighed like flowing water."

Ning Chaolai turned his head abruptly and fell into Uncle Tai's smile, and Uncle Tai said this to express his shame again.

After so many years, why should he still remember the rejection at the Hundred Flowers Banquet?

Uncle Tai used his fingers to trace Ning Chaolai's eyebrows and eyes, and his voice was like water,

"You can't forget, you don't dare to forget, I know, then we'll take a gamble. If I die, there will be one more person you miss, and if I live, you will hide them in your heart and let me take care of you, okay? ”

Looking down from above, I only saw a sea of lights, such a high building, even if you perform light work, you may not be able to be safe and sound, let alone use light work.

Uncle Tai is forced to die, Ning Chaolai lowered his eyes, if she didn't nod, would he really jump down?

Thinking about it, the man was already standing on the edge of the platform, and as long as he fell back, he would no longer be there.

Downstairs is like daylight, like a sea of five-colored flowers, indescribably beautiful, upstairs the moonlight is bright, sprinkled everywhere, the red belt in the building is blowing, the red rope is entangled, like a fairyland on earth.

The people by the railing disappeared, the lantern in Ning Chaolai's hand fell to the ground and burned, and the strips of cloth that were ignited flew out of the tall building, brilliant in the night, hovering and falling.

Ning Chaolai ran to the edge of the platform, holding on to the railing and looking down, did he jump down? Jumped?

"It's on fire, Qiuyue Tower is on fire!"

The originally lively bazaar suddenly became chaotic, and the fire spread, burning other people's marriages.

In her previous life, she was buried in the fire, and her bones were gone, but if it was the same in this life, it would be fine.

"Come, run, if people find out that you burned the Moon Tower, they will definitely not let you go."

When I opened my eyes, I saw who Uncle Tai was.

Ning Chaolai was happy and angry, and he felt indescribable in his heart, like a sudden enlightenment in the end of the place, and like a hundred flowers blooming in a snowy place.

She jumped on Uncle Tai's back, put her arms around the man's neck, gritted her teeth and said,

"You lied to me, you lied to me! I want to tell others that you burned the Moon Tower! ”

Uncle Tai couldn't help but laugh, what's so difficult about this, as long as she is happy, what if he burned the Moon Tower?

Besides, Qiuyue Tower was originally built by him, in order to achieve a good marriage between her and him.

After a long time, Uncle Tai said sourly in front of Ning Chaolai,

"When they left, you were in pain, I went, but you didn't have a single tear, if it wasn't for Qi Niang to say a word to me, I was really afraid that I would really jump down."

Ning Chaolai heard this, put down the book in his hand, and asked, "What did Qi Niang say to you?" ”

Uncle Tai only smiled silently.

Qi Niang said that the deeper the love, the more heartbroken she is, the more she wants to cry without tears.

Seeing Uncle Tai show a mouthful of white teeth, Ning Chaolai couldn't help laughing, when she was a child, she said that he was black, but it was just a joke, but this person took it seriously, and he didn't say anything about it until now, even the sun had to block it.

"Don't laugh at me, do you know how scared you were when you stood on the Qiuyue Tower that day, I was afraid that you really didn't care about me, and as a result, I really fell down accidentally, I wanted to be wrong, but I didn't know that you actually burned the Qiuyue Tower, so that I was chased and beaten by so many people."

This is true, Uncle Tai was indeed chased by someone at that time, but this person was too thick-skinned, he carried Ning Chaolai behind his back, shouting in the streets and alleys,

"I'm just to make my lady happy, she loves to do this kind of thing the most, isn't there an allusion to the laughter of the princes of Zhou Youwang's Fenghuo Opera? There are ancients who lead by example, and I can't blame me. ”

The thought of being chased all over the street, Ning Chaolai felt angry.

"I've seen it for half a lifetime, and it's time to see enough and go."

Uncle Tai smiled and took Ning Chaolai's hand and walked towards the cloth shop in front of him, he knew that someone was watching them.

Sure enough, as they passed by, the people in the carriage smiled.

I thought I wouldn't see each other again in this life, but I didn't expect to see each other again, she was good, he was good.

She once said, I just want the peach blossoms to bloom, and I also want you to be lush enough to take responsibility.

Now, the emperor is seriously ill, and perhaps, they will soon see each other again, but when the time comes, it will be in vain whether they are friends or foes.

He was one step away from her, but he was at the end of the world.