Chapter Twenty-Seven: Halloween Day
As the two passed through the street, they saw an old woman leaning against the side of the road and burning paper money into a basin, looking attentive and religious.
Shen Lingjun looked at it, his black eyes flashed under the firelight, his mouth moved, and he said as if he sighed: "Do you believe that people become ghosts when they die?" ”
Su Musha shook his head: "Dead is dead." ”
Shen Lingjun looked at the light of the fire in the basin and said faintly: "Actually, it's good to have this kind of thought, at least it's a way to express sorrow." ”
The two didn't know who the old woman burned paper money to, but judging from the tears in the corners of her eyes, she must be the most important person to her.
Walking further, there are many river lamps in the river swaying and undulating with the wind, the river lamps are all in the shape of lotus flowers, look carefully, there is a note hanging on it, full of dense words.
Shen Lingjun stood at the head of the bridge and looked up, and the river lanterns were lined up in a long line, which disappeared into the darkness farther away.
"In Guishan, at this time of year, everyone will also put river lanterns." Shen Lingjun held the knife in both hands, leaned against the bridge, and said in a casual manner: "You also know that they killed too much when they were young. My father said that sooner or later the sins of people will have to be repaid, so on the day of the Midyear Festival, they write the names of the people they have killed on a slip of paper and pray for the blessings of the dead, which can be regarded as atonement for their sins. ”
Su Musha looked at Shen Lingjun, and suddenly, he was curious: "Why did your father suddenly retire from the rivers and lakes back then." ”
"I don't know," Shen Lingjun shrugged: "Probably tired of fighting and killing, now he and my mother are planting flowers and raising birds in the mountains all day long." ”
Su Musha turned his head to face the moat and said, "That's not bad." ”
"It's so wrong." Shen Lingjun frowned and said, "It's terrible to stay in the mountains every day. ”
Su Musha looked at her sideways: "How about traveling all over the world and all over the mountains and rivers?" ”
Shen Lingjun squinted his eyes and smiled: "This proposal seems to be not bad." ”
Su Musha looked at her with a smile in his eyes, under the bright moonlight, the whole person was radiant, and then smiled faintly: "Hmm." ”
Shen Lingjun didn't ask him anything, and Su Musha didn't say anything, there were some things that didn't need to be said, they both knew each other, and some things didn't come to say.
The two fell silent and looked at the moat together.
The starry sky is reflected in the river with the full moon, and the water waves sparkle and make the moat appear bright and shining together with the fluorescent fire in the river lamp.
Ye Qingzhi was asleep, but was woken up by a gust of wind in the middle of the night, and remembered in a daze that she didn't close the window at the head of the bed before falling asleep.
After rubbing his sleepy eyes, he got up and closed the window, and then he held the edge of the window with his hand, and when he saw a familiar back outside, he paused in his hand.
Under the sycamore tree, Zhao Qi drank alone to the moon, revealing a cold and lonely cold that he had never seen before.
At this time, Luo Cheng poked his head out from the roof: "Miss Ye hasn't slept yet?" ”
Ye Qingzhi nodded, looked at the people in the courtyard with her eyes, and asked, "What's wrong with him?" ”
"General......" Luo Cheng sighed, "The general is like this at this time of year. ”
During the play, he also barbed his head and nodded: "Well, the Midyear Festival is here to pay tribute to the dead, so every year the Midyear Festival General is alone at midnight to accompany those soldiers who died on the battlefield to drink." ”
As a doctor, Ye Qingzhi doesn't believe in such a thing as the reincarnation of life and death, so he was quite surprised: "He also believes that people will become ghosts when they die." ”
"Actually, it's more about nostalgia." Luo Cheng's face was covered with cold moon and clear light, and his voice was lighter than usual: "No one knows who will fall next, so every time before leaving, we say that the one who is alive remembers to toast a few glasses of water and wine every year, and has the opportunity to be brothers again in the next life." ”
Ye Qingzhi saw Zhao Qi drink a cup by himself, and then sprinkled a cup on the ground, his movements were slow and solemn.
During the play, he jumped onto a loquat tree in front of Ye Qingzhi's window, propped his head and said, "Actually, the general is quite lonely." ”
Luo Cheng took the opportunity to agitate: "That's it, the general hides it deep in his heart, and he usually doesn't like to talk about it, Miss Ye, you are a doctor, you have time to enlighten and enlighten our general, don't suffocate it." ”
Ye Qingzhi held the hand on the edge of the window and slid down, paused, then pushed out and closed the window, lowered her eyes and said, "Let's talk about it, I'll sleep first." ”
During the play, he tilted his head and looked at the closed window: "Ah Gua, I think Miss Ye still cares a lot about our general." ”
"Don't call me Agua anymore." Luo Cheng flicked a chestnut at his head: "Also, where do you see that you care?" ”
During the play, he rubbed his head, with a stupid expression on his face, and said: "Do you think that according to Miss Ye's character, she is the kind of person who has nothing to do, stands in the middle of the night for half a day to watch the general drink, and asks us to inquire blindly?" ”
Luo Cheng pinched his chin and thought, "yes." ”
was quite proud during the play: "You have a smart face in vain." ”
Over there, Zhao Qi poured another glass of wine on the ground, and then poured himself a glass and continued to drink, or he was stuck in his own thoughts and did not notice the conversation between the three.
The wind blew through the courtyard, and it was as if nothing had happened.
And Ye Qingzhi, who lay down on the bed again, couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and when she closed her eyes, her head was full of that black lonely back.
After Shen Lingjun and Su Musha returned to the inn, they remembered that they didn't expect to spend the night before, so they only needed a guest room.
Su Musha brought Xiao Er over and asked him to open another one.
Xiao Er yawned with one hand and held a lantern in the other, and his sleepy eyes couldn't be fully opened: "Guest officer, I'm really sorry, the small shop is full today, and there are no more spare rooms." ”
Shen Lingjun said: "It's okay, let's change it." ”
Xiao Er shook his head and said: "I guess I can't find an inn with vacant rooms in Danfeng Mansion tonight, I don't know what's going on, the group of people from the rivers and lakes who gathered in Guangfulou opposite in the afternoon turned back in the evening, no, all the inns are full." Saying that, he sighed again: "I don't know what they are here for, but don't make a fuss in Danfeng Mansion." ”
Shen Lingjun and Su Musha glanced at each other - it turned out that the group of people who had left from the Famous Sword Villa had all gone to Danfeng Mansion to stay.
There was no other way at the moment, Su Musha asked Xiao Er to send hot water for washing, and then rewarded him with some silver to let him go down.
Xiao Er was dug up in the middle of the night, it was not easy to say anything on the surface, and he was a little unhappy in his heart, and as soon as the reward money came to his hand, he felt that he was really worth it today, and he went back to sleep happily.
The two washed up a little, and Su Musha sat down at the window table with his sword in his hand, and said, "It's not early, you can sleep first." ”
Shen Lingjun sat on the bed and patted the quilt, feeling that this inn was very exquisite, the quilts were all just dried today, and there was a fragrance of the sun, and when he heard the words, he asked, "Are you going to sit for a night?" ”
Su Musha said calmly: "It's time to practice." ”
Shen Lingjun was not polite to him, took off his coat and clothes and slept on.
However, I turned over in bed a few times, and some couldn't sleep.
Su Musha closed his eyes and sat still.
Shen Lingjun lay sideways and looked at the person sitting at the window, feeling embarrassed to sleep on the big bed alone, and hooked his fingers: "Mumu, otherwise you should come and sleep together." ”
Su Musha opened his eyes and said speechlessly: "Have you never been born as a woman, or have you not treated me as a man?" ”
Shen Lingjun lay on the pillow and wailed: "But I can't sleep when you sit like this." ”
Su Musha stood up and said, "Why don't I go outside......"
"No, you don't." Shen Lingjun simply lifted the quilt and sat up, supporting his head on his knees with both hands: "Let's chat." ”
Su Mu sat down heavily: "What are you talking about?" ”
Shen Lingjun thought about it and said with a smile: "I heard that you are the dream lover of all unmarried girls in Hangzhou City. ”
Su Mushu said quietly: "There is no such thing." ”
"Then Luoyang's No. 1 singer seems to be your confidante?"
"It's not."
"I heard that the daughter of the head of the Liancheng faction is not going to marry you?"
"Nope."
“……”
The moonlight was cool, and the city of Danfeng Mansion was silent, and there was only one room in the inn, and there was an uninterrupted sound of whispering.
The next day, Shen Lingjun stretched his body and got up from the bed, and found that the sun had risen very high, and kneaded his neck with his hand, feeling a little stiff. She couldn't even remember when she fell asleep later, and now her whole body was sore, and she obviously didn't sleep well.
Then I looked around the room and wondered where Su Musha had gone?
As soon as he thought of this, the door of the room was opened, and Su Musha came in with a food box.
Shen Lingjun sniffed: "It's so fragrant, what is it?" ”
Su Musha put the food box on the table, and took out the small bowl of wontons and two plates of breakfast inside: "Wang Ji Shop's breakfast is very famous in Danfeng Mansion, you can eat and see." ”
Shen Lingjun washed his hands in the basin prepared next to him, and then sat down at the table and picked up the small wontons to eat: "How do you know?" ”
Su Musha sat down and poured a cup of tea for each of them: "What the innkeeper said, I asked him to buy some over." ”
Shen Lingjun took a spoonful into his mouth and squinted his eyes: "The skin is thin, the meat is crispy, the soup is fresh, delicious!" ”
Su Musha found that he had an extra interest recently, that is, watching Shen Lingjun eat, as long as she ate delicious food, she was satisfied, which made him feel very satisfied.
Shen Lingjun forked a xiaolongbao with chopsticks and stuffed it into Su Mu's mouth, turned around and put another one in his mouth.
When Su Mu was chewing on the xiaolongbao, he thought again, it seemed that Shen Lingjun also had an extra interest - he couldn't forget to stuff him with two mouthfuls while eating it himself.
Moreover, Su Musha always felt that Shen Lingjun's handy movements were very familiar.
After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that when she was in Luoyang City, she fed the cats like this, and her face was suddenly covered with black lines.
When the two of them checked out after breakfast, they found that those Jianghu people had left one after another in the morning, and it was estimated that they would not be able to get up any moths in the near future, so they breathed a sigh of relief.
It was a good time to ride a horse, and when I returned to the first village from Danfeng Mansion, it was already less than two hours.
When the two of them stepped into the courtyard, they saw that it was very lively.
Tang Tang held a plate of unknown objects in his hand, jumping up and down while chasing the play: "I have improved it this time, it must be no problem." ”
I didn't believe it during the play: "The last time I ate your things, I vomited and diarrhea / for three days and three nights." ”
Since Tang Tang has become more interested in the kitchen, he likes to find someone to taste the taste from time to time. But what she does is different from others, and she likes to add some condiments. For her dark cuisine, everyone has endured all the hardships, and they are secretly determined not to be bewitched by her again, but she still enjoys it.
Tang Tang stopped, raised the plate with one hand, and crossed his waist with one hand: "If you don't stop, I'm going to let Xiaoqing go." ”