Chapter 29: Retrospective (II)
I helped him to the bedroom on the second floor, in the dark, in front of the tea table.
Two small water snakes came out of the small pond on the tea table, and looking at Ao Long's appearance, tears flowed out of their eyes, leaving a shallow trace.
"Hehe, I'll be like you in a while." Ao Long touched their heads and sat down peacefully in his chair.
Two cups of steaming Longjing tea were soaked by the two little water snakes in a blink of an eye, but they never wanted to return to the water, but kept floating on the water, staring at Ao Long. They are all spiritual creatures who can feel the change in the atmosphere.
"Brother, in fact, I still have one more thing to solve." Otaki looked at me with regret.
"It's rainfall, right?" I lifted the teacup feebly, and what was supposed to be a light object now weighed a thousand pounds.
Ao Long nodded, his eyebrows furrowed. "As I said before, you and Yuluo are the fate of your previous life, and if you don't want to in this life, you don't have to force it." He was silent for a moment, then said. "Now I retract this sentence, I hope that you can take care of her in the future, as a request from a dying man to you."
I didn't think about the question, I didn't know how to answer him, so I could only drink my tea silently. Tea is even more difficult to swallow than liquor at the moment.
"Yuluo, this kid has a bad temperament, and he doesn't have any other friends in the Dragon Palace. After I leave, you are her only relative, she will definitely listen to what you say, don't let her do stupid things again. ”
I bowed my head and said nothing, the jade buds in the cup were steaming, and the tea smoke wet my eyes.
"Haha, don't dwell on it, it's just my request, if you're really embarrassed, just refuse me." Ao Long looked at me with a thousand words in his eyes.
"I promise you that this life will be the same as the previous life." I drank the tea in one gulp. "Do what I can to take good care of her."
Ao Long laughed heartily and stood up. "I don't have any more concerns, and my merits are complete. When I cultivate again, I will definitely go to your life to find you."
I reached out to help him, but he stopped me.
"Leave me alone, go and fetch the rain and let me stay here by myself for a while." Ao Long turned around and leaned against the wall and walked towards the third floor little by little. "I've been here for so many years, and I'm really reluctant to leave at this moment."
Sitting at the tea table, my thoughts are like a mess, how can I cut them off?
The snow is still flying outside the window, and the wind blows the snow like a cry.
I walked to the first floor of the Dragon Pavilion, trying to find Yuluo, who had just run back from Heaven ahead of us, and faintly heard a sobbing sound in the stairs, and found her standing stupidly in the corner of the first floor of the stairs, it turned out that she had been in the Dragon Pavilion all along, listening to all the conversations between me and Ao Long.
In the shadows, she was like an orphan who had lost everything, she stood there straight, motionless, her face was no longer as beautiful as before, only the haggard after the storm, which was very pitiful.
I couldn't help but hug her.
But she remained as motionless as if weathered, like a stone statue, except for a shallow breath left.
After a long time, she began to pound my chest with her hands.
I thought to myself, let her vent well, Ao Long was relieved, but she was the one who had to bear all this.
But her hands became weaker and weaker, and she slowly stopped and hung down. Tears are moist and fragrant.
"He's going to turn into a little green snake." She choked up. "When we cultivate to human form again, we will all be gone, and the bricks and tiles of the Dragon Palace may have already turned to ashes."
I didn't know how to answer, so I held her tighter.
"What's the difference between that and being dead?" She leaned on top of me and sobbed. "Why does he have to turn himself in, why does he have to get involved in the affairs of Heavenly Court."
With my hands gently clasped around her shoulders, I watched her choking eyes. "It's his own choice and we should all respect him and be happy for him. In my heart, he is a hero, a rare hero of this era. ”
"Big hero? You men's pursuit is to be a big hero, right? "The tears of the rain are still majestic." He made his own choice, but I didn't. I'm going to take over the Dragon Palace, do what I don't want to do the most, and force a smile on my face in the heavenly court in the future. ”
She's right, and maybe that's the only regret. A person's liberation must always be exchanged for a person's shackles.
"Yuluo, listen to me, your brother is not doing this for himself, but for everyone in the mortal world, the Dragon Palace, and the Heavenly Court, this is his belief from beginning to end. The Dragon Palace is his only legacy, so you must make the Dragon Palace good and strong. ”
She nodded slightly, as if she had figured out something. "I will, I must impress Heavenly Court."
I tentatively stroked her hair and plucked up the courage to say. "Ao Long is gone, you still have me."
She finally stopped being frozen like a rock, and she began to put her hands around my waist, and her body finally got warm.
"What's the need to say?" A smile finally appeared on her face.
"In the future, I will do my best in whatever you want me to do, and I will definitely be like in my previous life." I said with a slurr.
Yuluo sneered, and the smile she hadn't seen for a long time finally returned. "Fool."
She began to hug me tightly, and life was finally alive again.
"Actually, I can see that you haven't regained the memory of your and my feelings, so don't force yourself, you should have your own life." Her eyes were like waves, opposite me. "I'm not as fragile as he thought, and besides, you may not be able to help much, and there are some things that I have to take care of myself."
"Then I'm ......"
"Come and see me when you have time." She held the little pendant around my neck in her hand. "With it, you can come to the Dragon Palace at any time.
"You hold it, you can see me when you close your eyes, and I can hear what you want to say."
I closed my eyes and clenched the dragon's tooth tightly, silently reciting Yuluo's name in my heart, and sure enough, her smiling face appeared in front of my eyes.
In fact, she is right, my feelings for her all along may just be a kind of pandering, I think she is just a brutal and willful princess of the Dragon Palace, and the things in her previous life seem to have long become old talk. But at that moment, when she said those words open-mindedly, when she was determined to bear it herself, I realized that she was not what she imagined, and she was also doing what she thought was right like her brother, and everything she did was for others. She seemed to have suddenly become a familiar person around her, and an indescribable feeling suddenly flooded in my heart, and I actually had a nostalgia for her.
The feelings are really wonderful, they come and go, and they are confusing.
She took my hand and whispered. "Let's go see him."
We walked back to the lush garden on the third floor of the Dragon Pavilion, the pond was still there, the green trees were still there, and the pavilion was still the same, but Ao Long was no longer there.
"Brother him?" Yuluo anxiously searched everywhere, but could not find any trace of him.
Only the sound of chirping from the pond was heard, and the faint, gurgling sound of water almost drowned it out. I hurriedly ran over and saw a small silver snake staring at us by the pond, writhing its tail constantly.
"The rain is falling! Come on! ”
Yuluo watched this scene, instantly lost her strength, collapsed beside her, and I hurriedly supported her.
"Brother......" she cried over and over again, her voice getting hoarse.
The little water snake stared at her, its eyes motionless and its head shaking. I understand what it means, it doesn't want the rain to go on like this.
Yuluo leaned down and knelt down in front of the revetment, and a thousand lines of tears poured into the water.
"Don't be like this, the rain falls, the last thing he wants to see is you." I hugged him tightly in the back.
"Yes, you're right." She hurriedly wiped away her tears, but the red makeup melted. "We're going to see him off happily."
The white jade-like hands reached into the water, and a piece of floating algae grew on the palm, and the small water snake moved, gently swam to it, and rested comfortably between her fingers.
"Look at him, he's so cute, much cuter than when I was a kid." Yuluo choked back tears and smiled knowingly. "Childe, come over and touch him."
His body is slippery and cool, and he does not dodge when he touches it, but obediently bypasses your fingers and is intimate with you. After a few moments, he began to twist his body and wrap my palms tightly with Yuluo's palms.
"I understand what you mean, Brother Ao, I will definitely do what I have said."
The little water snake shook its head and stuck out its tongue rhythmically, looking like it had a deep meaning.
"What does it mean when the rain falls?"
Yuluo also shook his head and smiled helplessly, "My brother is still the same, this is the code he and I have been using since childhood." ”
As soon as she finished speaking, she pressed her red lips to me and gently sucked the tip of my tongue. With a strong warmth, it seems to push me into a clear spring that penetrates people's hearts. I gently wrapped my arms around her waist through her long hair, giving her the most gentle force.
Like spring red, like summer green, like autumn maple, like winter snow, like everything I can imagine is beautiful.
The little water snake let out a few low chirps happily, nodded in satisfaction, and jumped back into the water.
We waited for it to emerge again, but it didn't, the water was surprisingly calm, and he was nowhere to be seen.
"This place is directly connected to the West Lake, and he really swam away." Yuluo looked at the water stupidly, reluctant to give up.
"He will swim to the Qiantang River, swim to the Yangtze River, swim to the Yellow River, and swim all over the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, we bless him."
"Yes, I hope he can meet someone like you and treat him well, not like I did back then." The rain fell on top of me and placed her fingers lightly on my palm. "I'm sure it will."
In the Dragon Pavilion, there are only two figures left leaning on each other, and the prosperity of the past is no longer a matter of things.
Parting is always the most miserable, but a new life is always the most comforting.