Chapter Twenty-Three: Contentment and Knowing
"Please write, 'I am both flattering and pleasing to me.'" Sima Cheng said.
Yi Xue didn't think much about it, and mechanically followed what he said, writing and reading at the same time, thinking about such explicit verses, but the more she looked at it, the more familiar it became.
When Yi Xue wrote the last word "Yan", the pen suddenly stopped on the last right point, and the ink slowly soaked in.
It's the sentence she wrote to Sima Cheng!
No, it was her love note to Sima Cheng written for Yin Baoshan.
Yi Xue was stunned, and the pen was not lifted for a long time, and the ink directly passed through the thin paper of the sky lantern, smearing on it, until Rong Tian reminded her, she suddenly raised the pen.
According to common sense, Yi Xue should hurry up with the guest to make compensation, and even took the initiative to ask for a new one for the other party, but Yi Xue lowered her head and couldn't say anything.
Sima Cheng picked up the sky lantern with satisfaction, the corners of his mouth rose, and his cold face showed a smile that he had never seen tonight, but the smile was ghostly and evil, and he couldn't help but feel a little scared.
But then, Sima Cheng didn't do anything else, put down the usual copper coins, and was about to leave with Yin Baoshan with the sky lantern written by Yi Xue, it was definitely not enough to mention so much money, and the vendors next to him sighed when they saw this son's wealth, and when Xi Xue came back to his senses, Sima Cheng and the two had already walked away, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief,
When Yi Xue saw the copper coin, she thought that if Sima Cheng wanted to give it, it would be useless to force it back to him, so she planned to let Rong Tian distribute the copper money to the lamp seller who took care of her business, and then sat on the stone steps on the side of the road, thinking about the question that she hadn't figured out for a long time-
What did Sima Cheng know?
Knowing that she helped Yin Baoshan ghostwrite love notes? Knowing that she is pretending to be her? ……
Don't...... Got to know she's a woman?!
Yes! She just felt that she was going to be driven crazy by Sima Cheng!
Yi Xue couldn't see through him, and didn't know if he was friend or foe. Don't look at his calm look, as if he doesn't know anything, but he will always remind you between the lines, with subtle eyes, expressions, and mannerisms, making you feel that he knows everything and is a bottomless pit.
Just like Wei Shuo may also know about Wei Xue, he didn't say it explicitly, but he won't talk about these things all the time, and he won't reveal anything in his daily life, even if Wei Xue knows that Wei Shuo knows, she will feel relieved, not uneasy.
But Sima Cheng is not, Yi Xue doesn't know what his purpose is, and he can't guess what he is going to do next, every time she meets suddenly, the unguardable sneak attack makes her have no intelligence to parry, and Yi Xue tries every possible way to come up with a blow to try to resist, in exchange for the next defeat, and when Yi Xue is dying, at this time Sima Cheng Mingjin withdrew his troops, as if it seemed to be calm, and the battle was stopped, but the next time he may give you a fatal blow coldly.
She felt so tired
Yi Xue was distressed, saw the last sugar gourd, and planned to eat it, in order to release his gloomy depression, just licked it, but Xiao Nan Nan hugged Sima Cheng who was about to leave with both hands, and did not let him leave, Sima Cheng looked back at Xiao Nannan, Xiao Nan Nan let go of a hand, turned his head and pointed to the sugar gourd in Yi Xue's hand, as if to give the sugar gourd to Sima Cheng.
Sima Cheng raised his eyes and glanced at Yi Xue, who was like a frightened kitten, with fried hair all over her body, and her hands tightly guarded her sugar gourd.
Seeing that the sugar gourd was eaten by Yi Xue, Xiao Nan cried loudly with a "wow", Yi Xue and Sima Cheng looked at each other, and the aunt in the shop next door smiled embarrassedly, and hurriedly came over and took Xiao Nan away, and apologized to Yi Xue and Sima Cheng from time to time.
Yi Xue didn't expect Xiao Nannan to be so persistent in this sugar gourd, so ...... That...... If he had known that this would have been given to Sima Cheng, it would not be a big deal.
Sima Cheng couldn't help but feel funny when he saw Yi Xue's bulging cheeks because of the sugar gourd, but his face was still light and light, and he squinted.
The four of them broke up unhappily.
After the two left, Rong Tian's gaze also softened, just now the "pretty boy" looked like he had never seen the two of them at all, and Sister Xi should be happy. Seeing that Xue Xue was sitting on the stone steps with a stunned look, it was not as usual, so she squatted down and asked with concern:
"Sister Xi, that person is the person we met in the jewelry shop who grabbed the hosta with you."
Yi Xue woke up from her thoughts, looked at Rong Tian with a worried face, her heart warmed, her nose couldn't help but sour, she realized that her every move would also affect the hearts of others, Rong Tian cared about her, she didn't want this younger "brother" than her to worry, so she took the initiative to hug Rong Tian, and said:
"Well, it seems like it's him, he doesn't seem to recognize us, that's good."
Rong was stunned, and after a while, he hugged Xue hard.
Yi Xue smiled relievedly and stroked Rong Tian's back, as if she was comforting Rong Tian, but in fact, she was also comforting herself.
No matter how much of it was plausible, how much of it was intractable, she wasn't going to think about it anymore.
I just never want to see these two again.
Especially Sima Cheng.
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And this hug, the half-squatting Rong Leaning felt a strange anger in the low place, lurking in the lamplight, his eagle eyes were like torches, and he looked angrily at the dark sky and ink in the distance.
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The Qixi Night Market is also gradually coming to an end, and the crowd of people who have had enough of shopping and playing gradually gathers by the river, lights up the lamps, or puts them in the sky, let them fly, or flow in the river, and pass along the river.
Rong Tian and Yi Xue also closed their stalls, and the two stood on the bridge, looking at the river lantern that rose into the sky at one time.
The night sky is bright and the moon and stars are scarce, the firelight of the sky lantern is dotted, and the lights and candles of the street market are scorching, only to see more and more banished sky lanterns, Yi Xue suddenly thought, if every sky lantern from the earth to the heavens made a wish, then the gods in the sky will not be busy suddenly?
She felt that her thoughts were ridiculous, and she couldn't help laughing, and she looked at her with a listening voice, and her eyes softened unconsciously.
At this time, a gust of wind rose, and the sky lantern swayed with the wind, flew farther away, and gradually disappeared.
Yi Xue didn't make a wish, she felt that now she no longer needed a river lantern or a sky lantern such a god-seeking thing, her little happiness seemed to have been held in her hands, she looked at the people around her, all of them looked up, looking at the Lang Lang night sky with a pious look, she made a wish for these people - may these sky lanterns fly to the palace of the gods, and realize people's wishes.
Yi Xue and the others were still immersed in a moment of peace, Rong Tian smelled a trace of restlessness in it, he looked sideways, only to feel that there was a black shadow surging in the dark, gradually approaching him.