It's getting dark.

Feng Yi and Qiu Yuyan quickened their pace, looking for a place to stay overnight.

In this deep mountain and old forest, there are many demon beasts infested, because their requirements for a resting place are not high, if they can find a cuckoo like the one that passed by just now

The pool is such an empty, flat wonderful place is satisfied.

Of course, it would be better if Heaven had mercy on a cave.

The two walked another mile, and the autumn rain stopped again.

Her bright eyes roamed around the dark green bamboo forest that was not yet completely dark, and then she turned to look at the road again, and her pretty face showed an unnaturally confused look.

Feng Yi was surprised: "What's wrong?"

After Qiu Yuyan was silent for a long time, he muttered: "I'm lost." ”

Feng Yi was shocked, stared at her, and shouted, "How could you get lost?"

Qiu Yuyan frowned, a little dissatisfied with Feng Yi's slightly blaming tone in his tone, and said bluntly: "I'm not the one you invited me to."

Guide, don't ask me. ”

Feng Yi smiled dumbly, his right hand pretended to be very careless on her shoulder, and said with a smile on his left and right: "God thinks that our chat is too monotonous and boring, so use its privileges to take special care of it, and create some troubles or dangers for us to solve, so that this trip can be full and exciting." Rain smoke, you know? My favorite thing to do is to take risks and accomplish things that are not possible. ”

Qiu Yuyan said coldly: "Take away your stinky hands, don't bother me." ”

She didn't seem to be in the mood to appreciate his emotion.

Feng Yi retracted his right hand embarrassedly, looking at the autumn rain smoke in deep thought, his pretty face flashed with holy brilliance, like a red-clothed goddess who had fallen into the mortal world, and did not dare to disturb or blaspheme.

Qiu Yuyan was silent for a moment, and sorted out the fragments in his memory.

I already understood that it was the road to seal the collar not long ago, and I didn't know what I was thinking at the time, so I forgot to correct and remind me all the way, and when I came back to my senses, I couldn't help but say: "It's all your fault." Along the way, I asked questions and asked people who took the wrong path, and they all went astray. ”

It was indeed Feng Yi who led the wrong way just now, and he didn't dare to speak because of his weak heart.

Qiu Yuyan looked at Feng Yi, who looked like a child who had done something wrong and was out of words, and asked curiously, "What are you thinking?"

Feng Yi stared deeply at Qiu Yuyan's bright beautiful eyes, and blurted out: "I miss you." ”

The autumn rain and smoke are frozen.

Just as her angry face appeared, Feng Yi then changed the conversation and said, "Why don't you try to go back the same way?"

Qiu Yuyan avoided his eyes that were so hot that they could burn through her heart, lowered her long eyelashes, sighed, and said, "Okay, that's the only way." ”

It was getting darker, and what was a hundred paces away was blurry.

After walking half a pillar of incense in the dark, a bright moon rose away from the high mountains and mountains, lighting the sky lantern for the world, and shining on the earth with her incomparable color light.

Moonlight can make everything feminine and graceful, but it is elusive in itself.

The bright moon, the bamboo sea, the moonlit night people.

When the moon goes, so do people.

Sometimes, in order to keep up with the figures of the two people, the moonlight even can't help but walk through the sparse or dense branches and leaves of the bamboo.

The graceful figure of the autumn rain and smoke under the night sky, the red robe, like a ghost who only comes out at night, seems to lead Feng Yi to the country of ghosts.

The sound of the wind, the swaying of the bamboo, the footsteps, the gasp, the sigh...... Resounding throughout the bamboo forest.

A look of helplessness flashed in the eyes of the two, and they finally understood the meaning of the labyrinth.

They are already trapped in the bamboo forest, with no way out, no direction.

Walking in the moonlight for a while, there was a little hazy glimmer in the dense bamboo forest ahead.

But it was not moonlight, but like the light of a firefly, flickering and flickering.

The two of them were overjoyed, forgetting their hunger and weariness, and quickened their pace towards the faint light.

Where there is light and fire, there is hope, and it is also a breakthrough to break free from the fog of night.

When they got closer, the two were disappointed.

This is just a pile of bones left behind after the death of the demon beast, and something in the bones emits a slight fire after deterioration, like a starlight, which the world calls ghost fire, also called phosphorescence.

Feng Yi shook his head in distress and said, "It seems that we won't be able to get out for a while, why don't we find a place to rest nearby?"

Qiu Yuyan nodded in agreement, and suddenly heard a strange bird call, following the sound, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Feng Yi followed the line of sight of Qiu Yuyan.

In the bright moonlight, I saw a fiery red mountain bird perched on one of the dark green black bamboos, which was screaming bleakly and hoarsely towards the bright moon in the sky.

All of a sudden, there was a wail of infinite sorrow everywhere.

The cry was only two simple syllables, as if it were two indistinct words.

The former voice rises slowly, and the latter one is short and low, which sounds clearly a mournful call, which seems to be more sad than Zigui crying blood, a little sad, and it is unbearable to listen to it anymore.

Feng Yi looked at the fiery red mountain bird, showed an unfathomable smile, and said, "Yuyan, do you know if the big mountain bird is male or female?"

Qiu Yuyan was stunned, shook his head, and said, "I don't know." ”

Feng Yi said: "I know, that's a young man!"

Qiu Yuyan smiled dumbly and said, "Nonsense." I don't believe it. ”

Feng Yi said seriously: "No, I'm not talking nonsense, I not only know its gender, but also know that it is calling its lover." ”

Qiu Yuyan couldn't help but take two steps forward, came to his left side, looked closely at the lines of his masculine side profile, and said with interest: "How do you know?"

Feng Yi said: "When I was a child, I lived alone, only the birds on the mountain and the insects on the ground were my companions. ”

After he finished speaking, the big mountain bird suddenly flew into the sky and rushed towards the bright moon, shouting loudly—

The autumn rain smoke ghost walked over in a hurry, looking at the thick bamboo where the big mountain bird stayed just now, the stem and branches were round and slightly square, and he gently stroked it with his hand, with obvious square sexiness, and said in disbelief: "There really is a 'square bamboo' in the world!"

Feng Yi was stunned, followed up, and found that the dark green and black bamboo in this piece was actually all "square bamboo".

For a long time, he only knew about round bamboo, but he had never heard of or seen square bamboo, so he couldn't help but be curious, and said: "Is there any myth or legend about this 'square bamboo'?"

Qiu Yuyan's eyes showed a thoughtful look, and said quietly: "When I was a child, I heard my mother talk about it, this is a poignant legend. ”

Feng Yi quieted down and listened intently.

Qiu Yuyan walked slowly, and narrated: "In ancient times, there was a pair of young men and women who sang and fell in love with each other and made a private decision for life. When the man went to the woman's house to propose, the girl's mother thought that the boy's family was poor, and stopped outside the door and sang, "It's not flower boots don't go shopping, it's not sharp axes don't chop wood, unless the world changes in the mountains, and the pillars send the girl in a square." The boy was an infatuated man, and he was determined to knead the round bamboo into a square shape. He pinched and pinched, a year passed, two years passed...... The hard work paid off, and one day the bamboo was really pinched into a square shape by him. When he came to the girl's house with the bamboo in ecstasy, he learned that his lover had already jumped off the cliff and died in love. Grief-stricken, the boy planted his own bamboo in front of the girl's grave, and then went to the temple behind the mountain to become a monk. Since then, there has been a custom in the mountains, when a man goes to the woman's house to ask for marriage, he must plant a square bamboo at the door of the woman's house to show the steadfastness of love. ”

Feng Yi looked at her concentration, affection, and calmness and tranquility that came out of her heart, pure and beautiful, as if she was listening to the trickle in the silence, and her soul was deeply infected, and the aftertaste was endless.

Listening to her moving voice along the way, I don't know if I was influenced by her, my heart was peaceful, and under the blowing of the soft wind, I would not have the slightest dull feeling even if I walked aimlessly to the end of the world.

When the beautiful and poignant love story is finished, the two are still walking around the bamboo forest, although they did not go out, but unconsciously walked under the two ancient towering trees.

The Kapok tree, also known as kapok, gets its name from the red color of its flowering.

Feng Yi grew up in the mountains since he was a child, and learned the wooden talisman, so he naturally recognized this tree.

These two ancient Kapok trees are straight upward, tall, majestic and burly, with stretched branches and new green leaves.

Although the current has passed the full flowering period, there are still a lot of gorgeous and huge red flowers still standing on the branches, in full swing, dazzling and eye-catching, extremely magnificent, under the reflection of the moonlight, like a cluster of flames burning on the branches, jumping happily, very imposing, so it has always been regarded as a symbol of heroes by people, and is called "hero tree" by the world.

These two ancient red cotton trees, the petals are bright red and gorgeous, but they are very abrupt in this dark green and black bamboo forest, one of the best, extremely eye-catching, although it is a little incompatible with the overall bamboo scene, but a little red in the green bushes, it is very unique, and it makes people give birth to the beautiful feeling of "the scenery here is unique".

What's even more wonderful is that these two ancient Kapok trees are surrounded by one body, with branches and branches, leaves and leaves, and even the roots are also connected.

For many years, the two ancient Kapok trees have warmed each other and comforted each other in the wind and rain, always like a couple snuggling together, heart to heart, hand in hand.

Feng Yi looked at these two ancient trees, and said, "Yuyan, do you think these two ancient red trees were planted by the couple back then?"

Qiu Yuyan smiled knowingly and said, "Very likely." ”

Feng Yi smiled and said: "It's getting late, why don't we spend the night under this Lianli tree tonight, spend a warm evening together, tomorrow's affairs, what do you think about tomorrow?"

Qiu Yuyan frowned at a pair of eyebrows, and he really didn't dare to compliment him for this trick of begging for money in words, and even a little disgusted, but he was helpless.

The two of them inspected the surrounding environment, and unexpectedly found a natural spring pool about one zhang square not far from the ancient tree.

Qiu Yuyan looked at the reflection in the spring pool by the moonlight, and suddenly his face changed slightly, and then he was stunned for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking.

It took her a moment to come to her senses.

This wonderful emotion was fully perceived by Feng Yi, and the unfathomable feeling on Qiu Yuyan's body continued unabated, and the most fascinating thing was that he faintly felt that there was a kind of peace and peace in her heart that transcended all worldliness, like a bottomless deep pool, independent of the chaos of the world.

The two drank a sip of spring water one after another, only to feel that the taste was sweet and comfortable.