Chapter 3: The Mysterious Boy

The moment he stepped out of the door, Cen Kexuan gently closed the door behind him, took a deep breath, raised his head and looked at the white clouds in the sky, slightly stunned. Pen Γ— fun Γ— Pavilion www. biquge。 Pieces of fine pear blossoms fell in the air, and a cheerful voice crossed with it: "Is Xiao Xuanxuan going to get married?" She was suddenly happy in her heart, but her face was silent, she frowned and sighed softly: "It's you, Shulan." ”

A few steps away, the black-haired young man in a long coat sat on the railing of the corridor, his back against the vermilion column, one leg hanging down casually, and after speaking, he smiled evilly, his eyebrows were lazy, his eyes were peachy, and his words were full of jokes that could not be hidden: "Listening to your tone, I am disappointed to see me." ”

There are four people who can walk freely in Ziyun Palace, Cen Kexuan, Lu Sang, Chu Li are three, and there is one person, who is the young man called Shulan. But he is very different from the previous three, just because although he has lived in the Purple Cloud Palace for a long time, he is not a subordinate of the palace master, and it may be explained by calling him a nomad for the time being. Cen Kexuan walked up to him and stopped, looked at him carefully, and then said, "When did you come back?" Shulan yawned lazily: "I can't remember exactly." ”

Cen Ke glanced at him, if she was perfunctory like him on weekdays, she would definitely turn around and leave, but now she hasn't seen her in March, she misses it very much, so she said: "You just eavesdropped on my words with the palace master?" Shulan laughed, "I'm too lazy to eavesdrop on you." Cen Kexuan said again: "Then how do you know about the marriage?" Shulan smiled mysteriously with her eyes, not explaining, pretending to be clever.

It is undeniable that this person is indeed very wonderful, eight years ago when Cen Kexuan met him for the first time in the purple bamboo forest in the back mountain, he walked slowly from the smoky purple bamboo to break through the fog, his clothes were fluttering, the green silk was flying, and he was seventeen or eighteen years old, with picturesque eyebrows, smiling and groaning, if he said the word amazing, it is not an exaggeration.

But what is even more surprising is that eight years later, this guy still looks like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy. We might as well think about it, the elusive boy in Ziyun Palace, who doesn't do his job all year round, has nothing to do, but has a delicate appearance, a dusty bearing, and has not seen aging for more than ten years, who wouldn't think this person is a little weird?

Cen Kexuan felt in his heart that he might be a monster, a big monster hundreds of thousands of years old with a young face. Therefore, youkai cannot be offended at will. She suppressed the urge to give him a slap, squinted her eyes and asked, "Since you are so powerful, then tell me, when will the people from Yujing Villa come to pick me up?" But in my heart I had to talk to him, and I didn't care about his answer.

Shulan smiled and stretched out a finger and shook it in front of Cen Kexuan, seeing that she didn't react, she continued to dangle the white finger in front of her. Cen Kexuan slapped his hand away depressedly, and hummed a little unhappily: "Stop playing, I'll be serious with you." Shulan rolled her eyes and laughed sullenly: "Whoever is playing with you, I am also serious." ”

She froze. Shulan stretched out that finger again: "One month." Within a month, the people of Yujing Villa will definitely arrive at the Purple Cloud Palace. Andβ€”" At this, Shulan suddenly looked at her mysteriously, and smiled without saying a word. Cen Kexuan immediately asked, "And what?" Shulan smiled meaningfully and slowly added: "Moreover, there will be an unexpected surprise for Xiao Xuanxuan at that time." ”

The young man smiled very proudly, and Cen Kexuan saw it in his eyes, and he really felt extremely unpleasant. Maybe there will be such a special person in everyone's life, even if you have a thousand skills and all kinds of means, you will eventually have no way to take him, such as the former Cen Kexuan to Cen Zifei, and the later Shulan to Cen Kexuan. It makes sense for one thing to descend from another. In her memory, Shulan is the evil star sent by God to tease her, Cen Kexuan, who has been held in the palm of everyone's hands since she was a child, but she was fooled countless times by the young man in front of her in her youth. She often wonders, she is also such a handsome and good-looking teenager, why is there such a big gap between Shulan and her brother's personality?

"Don't you know how to be humble?" Cen Kexuan asked him angrily countless times, "If it were my brother, he wouldn't bully me like this." Shulan snorted disdainfully, "I'm not your brother." Cen Kexuan was furious, stretched out his hand, and said even more disdainfully, "You ungraceful guy, you can't even compare to a single hair of my brother." "Oh, but your best brother in the world doesn't want you anymore." Such a casual joke made Cen Kexuan, who was arrogant just now, suddenly shed tears. Crystal tears slid down the thin cheeks, and the soft whimper turned into a gradually amplified cry, and it couldn't be stopped, and the loneliness and longing in my heart could no longer be hidden.

Shulan showed a panicked look for the first time, he hurriedly reached out to wipe away her tears, muttered countless apologies in his mouth, until the girl in front of him couldn't help but burst into laughter before stopping, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Xiao Xuanxuan, this time I was wrong." He stretched out three fingers with one hand and looked solemn, "I swear, this is the last time." "There is no lack of sincerity in the eyes. Cen Kexuan snorted lightly, there were tears in the corners of his eyes, and there was already a smile in his eyes.

After that time, Shulan really never quarreled with her about Cen Zifei again. In everyone's heart, there is a taboo, he almost forgot that even a young girl still has scars that he doesn't want others to mention.

Since she stayed in the Ziyun Palace, Shulan once told her that Zizhu was originally a thing of the fairy family, and there lived a fairy in the purple bamboo forest in the back mountain, who practiced incognito on weekdays and never appeared, but everything in the world was under the control of the gods, as long as she sincerely kowtowed and made a wish, the fairy could realize one of her wishes. Shulan has an advantage, that is, she can always talk to others without blushing or beating her heart, and tell others something untrustworthy in a serious way, obviously, Cen Kexuan at that time had not seen through him. Although her face was silent at that time, her heart had already flown to the purple mist back mountain bamboo forest.

She has always had a wish, or rather, since the heavy snow at the age of eight, Cen Zifei has become an eternal knot in her heart. She prayed to the heavens countless times to bring the vanished boy back to her, never to be separated, but things never went his way.

That night, she avoided Shulan and all the palace maids, lit a faint candle flame and collected all her favorite things, carefully wrapped them in her skirt, and trotted all the way to the back mountain. The faint crescent moon above his head was hidden in the clouds, the cold wind was cold in his ears, the soft embroidered shoes were stepping on the ground, and the lights in the Purple Cloud Palace were getting farther and farther away. On the way, she accidentally fell several times, the burden fell to the ground and scattered, she fell down in a panic, groped one by one by the moonlight, and touched the chaotic stones with her delicate little hands, which hurt so much, and finally reached the purple bamboo forest with an embarrassed face.

Shulan said that the immortals in the purple bamboo forest can fulfill one of her wishes. In that dark and starless winter wax moon, this is the biggest expectation in her heart. If Cen Zifei had come back that year, she would have felt that this was the greatest thing she had ever done in her life, and she would have no regrets.

Unfortunately, it backfired, and when she finally had to spend the winter of the following year looking at the waning moon alone, she did not hesitate to transfer all her anger to Shulan, and she said viciously: "If you make up such a boring, childish and irresponsible lie, you will be thundered by the sky." Shulan also showed no weakness: "I just said casually, some people stupidly believe it to be true, do they really have no brains." The two had a war of words, and the contest spread from then on. It's a pity that Jiang is still old and spicy, and Shulan has the heart to fix her, which is really impossible to prevent. After that, Cen Kexuan was deceived by Shulan in various ways no less than ten times, and there was no victory at all, which made her annoyed.

Finally, on Cen Kexuan's fourteenth birthday, she secretly swore that she would never believe any of this kid's nonsense again, not a word.

That was really the wisest decision in Cen Kexuan's life, because after the age of fourteen, due to Cen Kexuan's various vigilance and distrust, Shulan never deceived her in the slightest. In other words, after the age of fourteen, Shulan is a complete loser in front of her. Thinking of this, Cen Kexuan snorted at Shulan defiantly, and walked away with his head held high - if he didn't listen or believe it, it was the magic method to prevent Shulan.

The days in the Purple Cloud Palace were actually very boring. Even though there is purple mist, bamboo shadows, peerless beauty, like a fairyland, everyone in the rivers and lakes is envious, Cen Kexuan is still bored. I was really bored, so I changed my way to play with myself. Pull a rope or cloth strip between two pear trees, and you can jump around for half a day. The snow-white pear blossoms fell like that, like ice and snow floes, extremely beautiful and extremely pitiful. It's a pity that Cen Kexuan is a layman, he doesn't understand the amorous feelings, and he won't pity the flowers. Rubbing and trampling under his feet, the broken flowers were crushed into dust and mud in an instant, whining and mourning.

Ziyun Palace is located on the top of the mountain, close to the sun, although it is cold on weekdays, in the afternoon, there is actually some sun, and soon, there is a slight sweat on her forehead. Stepping to sit on the recliner, take a nap with the delicate white Luo fan, close your eyes slightly, listen to the softness of the wind, listen to the crispness of the water dripping, and listen to the joy of insects and birds.

If there is no damn marriage.

It has been a month since Cen Kexuan learned about the marriage, although she was very reluctant in her heart, but she must also admit that Shulan still has some ability, at least on this day just one month, the people of Yujing Villa really arrived. Of course, this matter is still what the little girl Doulan told her.

At that time, she was already drowsy, only to feel that the sun made her a little dizzy, Zizhu was blown by the wind, and vaguely saw a green shadow floating in, and she didn't have to guess who it was. Dou Lan held a bowl of lotus seed soup and walked gently to this side, with excitement on her face, and after a while, she squatted in front of her, stretched out her hand and gently pushed her, and called twice: "Miss? Miss? Cen Kexuan pretended to be dead and scared her with a corpse.

Seeing that she didn't react, Dou Lan hurriedly stretched out her head to take a closer look: her eyes were closed, her face was pale, and she was covered in sweat, she couldn't help but be horrified, and immediately reached out to probe her snort, which was so frightened that she almost fainted, and exclaimed, "Miss, what's wrong with you?" She put the lotus seed soup in her hand aside, panicked for a while, Miss Xindao was afraid that she was suffering from heat stroke and would fall into a coma, so she quickly searched for the chaotic books she had read in her mind, as if she remembered that the medical book said that the method of acupuncture and moxibustion should be taken from Baihui, Renzhong, and then Chengpul and Qihai...... As she thought back to the mess of memories in her head, she went into the room to fetch the silver needle, ready with a vigorous speed, the white tip of the needle between her slender fingers.

Take Baihui first, Baihui...... Dou Lan slowly raised her hand, and she was about to prick it down. Cen Kexuan jumped up with a carp, joking, if he really pricked down, with Doulan's ability to use half a pot of water, it would be okay to be fine. Dou Lan was stunned for a moment, and said happily: "Miss, are you okay?" Cen Kexuan smiled and waved his hand: "It's okay, it's all right." But he secretly said in his heart: I don't know if this girl is really stupid or pretending to be stupid. If she pretends, she can only say that her kung fu performance is first-class and poor, which is really a shame for her to be a young lady. If it's true, then it means that Doulan, a pretty girl, is a complete fool. The girl who has been with me for many years is actually a fool? She'd rather she'd be foolish, or at least saved.

Dou Lan took back the silver needle and put it away carefully, as if she was relieved, as if she remembered the bowl of lotus seed soup, and brought it to Cen Kexuan from the side, with a lovely smile: "Miss, this is the lotus seed soup I boiled for you, drink it while it's hot." Cen Kexuan glanced at her strangely, offering affection for nothing, either treacherous or thief. took the lotus seed soup and scooped two spoonfuls into his mouth, looked at Doulan with a smile and said, "It's delicious." "Respond to all changes with the same, and see what you little girl is paying attention to.

Sure enough, Dou Lan said again: "Miss, I'll rub your shoulder for a while." Before she could speak, she had gone around to Cen Kexuan's back and rubbed her shoulders for her, and her movements were very attentive. Cen Kexuan also enjoyed it peacefully, thinking that although this Doulan was a girl, she had no choice but to follow her for so many years, and the relationship was close, so she didn't regard her as a young lady more and more, and she lost her temper at every turn. Today's such an honor, it is really rare for her to be attentive and attentive.

Thinking beautifully, for some reason there was no sound behind her, Cen Kexuan looked back a little strangely, and saw Dou Lan casually rubbing her shoulders, her eyes were scattered, and her face was a little hesitant, as if she was thinking about something.

"Hey." Cen Kexuan patted her hands, "What do you want?" Speak up and listen. Dou Lan pursed her lips, and then said immediately: "Miss, can you take me with you when you go to Yujing Villa this time?" After saying that, a small face was full of nervousness and expectation.

It turned out to be this matter, Cen Kexuan was a little curious: "Why do you want to go?" Dou Lan said: "Dou Lan is naturally reluctant to miss you." Cen Kexuan looked at her suspiciously: "Really? Dou Lan seemed to have been greatly wronged, and blinked her eyes aggrievedly and said, "Miss, we are good sisters." If you leave, how can I survive in this Purple Cloud Palace. ”

Cen Kexuan couldn't help but be a little moved when he saw her appearance. Dou Lan said again: "Besides, Miss, you married someone who is not familiar with your life in the past, and you have a companion with me, don't you?" Cen Kexuan nodded: "That's right." But the people of Yujing Villa ......" Dou Lan hurriedly interrupted: "You marry to Yujing Villa, is it possible that you are not allowed to bring a dowry girl?" Cen Ke looked at her decisively, and suddenly laughed: "Yes, no one can say anything about you little girl." ”

Dou Lan curled her mouth and laughed with her: "Aren't you yourself a little girl like me." Then he asked with joy, "Then Miss, did you agree?" Cen Kexuan pretended to ponder for a moment before shaking his head and saying, "Is there any other way for me to refuse?" ”

Dou Lan exclaimed, a smile immediately flew on her face, her already pink cheeks were as moving as Caixia in an instant, she took the porcelain bowl in Cen Kexuan's hand, and said with a smile: "By the way, Miss, I just saw the people of Yujing Villa in the Caixuan Palace." Andβ€”"

"What did you say?" Now it was Cen Kexuan's turn to exclaim, almost jumped up, and interrupted Dou Lan's words. After being reminded by Doulan, she remembered that Shulan had said that the people from Yujing Villa would come to pick her up within a month. So, they've arrived? Thinking of this, Cen Kexuan jumped up from the recliner, and didn't care about Dou Lan, who was stunned on the side, and hurriedly ran towards Caixuan Palace.