Yun Meng sat on the bed, looking at Xue Yan with a pair of jade eyes, and was not sure how she was going to start, but saw Xue Yan pull out a long and wide white ribbon, shook it, and said, "Do you know what this is?" Little Dream Dream. ”

Yun Meng shook his head blankly, and Xue Yan said, "This is called a chest wrap." There is no big man walking on the street with his chest still shaking. He blushed slightly, then coughed and said, "So, if you want to dress as a man, you have to wrap your breasts tightly." ”

"Hmm." Yun Meng had already blushed and folded his hands on his chest.

Xue Yan looked Yun Meng up and down, touched her waist, and said, "The waist is too thin, so you have to wrap it twice here, otherwise you don't look like a man." As he spoke, he took out a white scarf, held it in one hand, and stroked Yun Meng's long silky hair with the other, and said, "Tie up your hair with this, take off all the jewelry or something, why do men still wear so much jewelry?" ”

Then, Xue Yan picked out a white shirt, compared it in front of Yun Meng, and said, "This one looks looser, I'll wear it tomorrow." After speaking, he put the things aside, stared at Yun Meng and asked, "Say 'first meeting, please advise me'." ”

Yun Meng saw Xue Yan's serious expression, and said softly astringently: "For the first time, the first time we met, please give me more advice." ”

"Whoa! No way! It's not natural at all! Xue Yan frowned and said: "A man's voice is either low or rough, not as weak as you, and he must be heavy and low when he speaks!" ”

Yun Meng nodded and remembered, Xue Yan said again: "Laugh at one and show me." ”

Yun Meng hesitated for a moment, raised his sleeves to hide his face and smiled, a flush appeared on his fair face, Xue Yan hurriedly handed her the fan, and said, "In the future, when you laugh, open the fan, use it to cover your face, don't let others see it." ”

Seeing Yun Meng nodded, Xue Yan stared at her again and said, "Please advise me again." ”

Yun Meng took a long breath, tilted his head to the side, and shook his fan: "Ahem, please advise." ”

"Can you be honest when you ask someone?" Xue Yan raised her forehead and sighed: "How can you greet others like this?" If I had those goblins, I'd have slashed you to death! ”

Yun Meng frowned aggrievedly and said, "Didn't I learn from you?" ”

Xue Yan crossed his hands on his hips and said, "If you want to learn, study hard!" It's a good attitude! ”

Situ Yunmeng choked his breath in his chest, put the fan away, and said abruptly: "Why is my attitude not right?" It's not like you don't know, I'm uncomfortable being stared at! How can you pretend to be a man! You told me to do these things all night, and I wasn't ready for them! ”

"Ah!!h Xue Yan hugged her head and screamed, shook her hand and said, "I don't want to teach you!" ”

"If you don't want to teach, don't force yourself!" Situ Yunmeng said angrily: "I said no earlier, you have to be like this, why don't you want to do something else?" Why don't you pretend to be a piano fairy and I be an attendant, isn't that the same? ”

Xue Yan stroked her chest, forced herself to calm down, and pointed at Yun Meng and said, "No, one, one!" This trip to the Huoyun Palace, I want to show things to others, you can play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, I can only cook and sing! But Ah Miao already knows how to do it, why would Burning Sky be interested in me! ”

Yun Meng breathed a little away and said, "Then let's talk to him about the outside world." ”

Xue Yan shook her head helplessly and said, "It's useless, it's useless!" Burning Sky has a lot of friends, just talking about the outside world, at most two sentences will send the guest away! I just see you play the piano so well, even if he doesn't appreciate the piano skills, he always loves dancing and writing and writing or something, right? Playing chess or something, right? These are all things I won't! If I could, why would I pull you up! ”

Yun Meng's previous grievances were not gone, and his new anger was born again, so he only said: "Then don't drag me away!" ”

Xue Yan stomped her feet, walked around the room unhappily, and said as she turned: "I don't know who it is, I came here and cried several times and said that I wanted to see the stupid melon, and now what the hell is retreating!" It's like it's my business to save the dumb melon! ”

The more Situ Yunmeng listened, the more uncomfortable he became, he covered his ears and said, "Don't say it, I don't want to quarrel with you!" ”

Xue Yan angrily pointed at Yun Meng and said, "Then I'll save him alone, and you can sleep here alone!" Si, apprentice, little sister! ”

"I said I didn't want to quarrel with you!!" Situ Yunmeng was furious, his long hair flew up, and the things in the entire room were flying around because of the flow of wind spiritual power.

At this moment, there was a knock at the door, and several goblins shouting outside the door.

"What a noise!"

"Why are you making such a big move!"

"Be angry and make money, don't make a fuss about my fortune these days."

Xue Yan opened the door and sent away the goblin outside, closed the door, walked to the bedside, spread his limbs and fell on the bed, closed his eyes and sighed: "I'm tired, Xiao Mengmeng, let's get here today, sleep first, and find a way to ...... tomorrow."

Maybe she was really tired along the way, Xue Yan fell asleep like this, Situ Yunmeng was not happy at first, tugged at the hem of her clothes, and saw her snoring gently, so he sighed and thought, "I lost my temper at Yan'er again." ”

She walked to the window and looked out of the window, it was already dark, the dark red sky seemed very low, and gradually the lights were lit in every house.

Situ Yunmeng lowered his head and said in his heart: "The outside world is really different...... Unlike my little garden, where there are no such troubles, there are only occasional people who annoy me, but outside, there are a bunch of troublesome things, alas, it is better at home. Situ Yunmeng sighed, sat back next to Xue Yan, put her hand on her lap and looked at it, obviously so slender but full of scars, and her palm was also calloused, seeing this, Yunmeng was full of sentimentality, and thought: "Yan'er brought us all the way over, I always thought that with Ah Ye, with her, they are all so smart, I don't have to think about anything, in fact, I may rely on them too much...... What's the point of being alone in Mingjian Hall, being with them is happier than I have been in the past few years, because I know that there are many people who care about me and help me, and it is not in vain to come to this world. ”

"Thank you, Yan'er."

Yun Meng took Xue Yan's hand and couldn't help but kiss the back of his hand, but he heard Xue Yan whispering there in a soft voice: "Little Mengmeng...... Sorry I didn't take good care of you...... Don't be angry, let's reconcile, okay? I won't leave you behind...... It's like the fool never left me. ”

Situ Yunmeng gently stroked Xue Yan's face, and said with tears in her eyes: "Silly Yan'er, I won't leave you, it's hard for you, take care of me so much along the way." ”

Xue Yan said in a daze: "I really ...... No way...... I want you to dress up as a man...... If only you could......"

Yunmeng helped Xue Yan remove her clothes, shoes and socks, covered the quilt for her, and took a deep look, and then rang the red line bell......

The next day, at the fifth watch.

Xue Yan slept soundly, and only woke up at this time.

"Oops! What time has it been! Xue Yan sat up and found that the entire room was already bright.

"It's probably about the hour." A calm and delicate voice.

"It's all the time! Why didn't you wake me up sooner! And, this voice! Hey! Xue Yan turned her head and looked at it, so shocked that she couldn't speak. But I saw a person sitting in front of the dressing table, wearing a long plain shirt, a yellow ribbon around his waist, a jasper pendant on his head, a white scarf on his head, and a pen painting with his back to her, and white blue earrings and plain yarn shawls were put aside.

"You are?" Xue Yan was shocked, got out of bed, her white little feet fell on the soft carpet, she walked behind the man gently, but saw that the man was still looking down and painting, in the center of the painting stood a little girl in white with both hands praying, surrounded by flower petals, painted vividly, lifelike!

"Under the blue sky, among the flowers. May I accompany you and reunite with you. Situ Yunmeng wrote an inscription on the painting as he spoke, picked up the painting and looked at it again, nodded and said, "Then, it's okay to call you "Waiting". ”

"Not bad, not bad!" Xue Yan said with a smile.

"Get out of bed so soon?" Situ Yunmeng turned around, Xue Yan was taken aback again, it turned out that Yunmeng had drawn the willow eyebrows roughly, and the jade face was also smeared with yellow fat powder, which was indeed very different from before at first glance.

"Hmm." Xue Yan put her hands behind her back, feeling extremely comfortable, and asked, "Then I still call you Xiaomengmeng?" ”

Yun Meng unfolded the fan and fanned it, muttering, "Yun Meng...... Mengyun ...... Call me Meng Yun, Mencius's Meng, the cloud of the clouds. ”

"Meng Yun?" Xue Yan laughed, hugged Yun Meng from behind, and called out delicately: "Meng Gongzi~!" ”

"Hey! Monkey business! It's nonsense! Why are you so rude to your son-in-law? Yun Meng took the fan, pointed at Xue Yan, shook his head and sighed: "I want to dedicate this painting to the burning sky, you can put it away for me, Xiaocao, if there is any damage, only you ask." ”

"Grass?" Xue Yan covered her mouth and smiled, pointed at herself and said, "Me? ”

Situ Yunmeng nodded solemnly and said, "It's not you, who else?" The ink is dry, ready to be put away, ready to go. ”

"Yes, Childe!" Xue Yan snickered, put away the painting, put it on the table, and said, "Please don't be impatient, Xiaocao will go and change her clothes, and meet this demon lord with Gongzi, then you have to dress decently." ”

Situ Yunmeng used a folding fan to push the scarf on his shoulder behind his back, glanced at Xue Yan, and said, "What you said is very true, then you can go." ”

Half an hour later, Ah Miao prepared the tribute materials, seeing that the time to enter the palace was approaching, he hurriedly came to the door to find the two girls, just arrived at the door, the door was opened, the handsome Situ Yunmeng stepped out from inside, saw Ah Miao, and said to him elegantly: "Cat, are you ready?" ”

Ah Miao didn't seem surprised, and only said, "Fairy, oh no, Lord Qin Xian, everything is ready." ”

Yun Meng was still about to speak, but a childlike voice came from inside the door, "Childe, have you brought all the things?" ”

At this time, Ah Miao saw a person dressed as a piano boy stepping out of the door, she was wearing a simple fur hat, wearing a light blue shirt, her figure was slightly slimmer than Yun Meng, and she was carrying a basket behind her back, which contained a lyre, a Qingluan umbrella and a scroll of calligraphy and paintings, at first glance, it was indeed no different from ordinary masters and servants.

When Xue Yan saw Ah Miao, she suddenly realized, pointed at him and said, "I'll just say how Xiao Mengmeng changed overnight, it seems that you helped her a lot!" ”

Ah Miao said: "It was the fairy who took the initiative to find me, I didn't do anything except ask the kitten to help her dress up and make some suggestions, but she didn't sleep all night for this." ”

Xue Yan realized that Situ Yunmeng had worked hard all night and cast an admiring look at her, so she said to Ah Miao: "Then let's make an introduction first." This is the qin fairy who travels around the world - Meng Yun Gongzi, what about me, it is his piano boy, we came to Shushan this time to visit the lost best friend of the son, and happened to meet you in the fish restaurant, you think that our son's piano and painting are unique, so he took the opportunity to pay tribute, and brought us into the palace to introduce to the burning sky, understand? ”

Ah Miao thought for a moment, suddenly realized the subtlety of this plan, and said: "Oh, it turns out that you have such a plan, it is indeed much more convenient than my plan." ”

"And." Xue Yan said to Ah Miao: "The two women who entered your store yesterday have already left, if someone comes to the store to ask about yesterday's situation, do you know what to do?" ”

"I know all this, I'll take care of it." Ah Miao squinted and smiled: "You are dressed like this, even those officers and soldiers yesterday are afraid that they will not be recognized, and my men are all their own people, and they will never reveal your whereabouts." ”

"Hmm." Yun Meng put the fan in his palm and said, "I'm worried that Burning Sky will send someone to probe the details of me and Xiaocao, then it will be troublesome." ”

"Fairies can rest assured~" Ah Miao patted her chest and said: "With my Ah Miao here, you have no worries." ”

So, Ah Miao called the bull monsters and bear spirits and other coolies who were already waiting in the hall, asked them to pull the cart at the door and carry the tribute, and led the second daughter to the front of the tribute queue, stood at the front, and said to everyone: "Go!" ”

The team transporting the tributes also has a certain size, in addition to the three leaders A Miao, Yun Meng, and Xue Yan, followed by eight burly bear demons, the plates and pots they hold in their hands are relatively large, and the dishes contained in them are full of portions; In the middle, the three tiger spirits work together to pull a car, and the car is full of fine wine that has been brewed for decades; The four bull monsters in the back also pulled a cart, which was filled with the special fruit of Lishu Mountain-Biyan Fruit; The last six kittens held up a fiery red dragon-patterned brocade robe, and they walked happily while meowing and chatting.

"Don't keep talking to each other, be serious for me!" Ah Miao said to the end of the team with a displeased face: "The clothes were ordered by the Lord to find someone to order, and if it gets dirty, be careful that the cat's head is not protected!" ”

"Meow~" The six kittens responded, drooping their ears and lowering their heads.

The team transporting the tributes marched towards the Huoyun Palace, attracting the attention of many demons on the street, Yun Meng was quite nervous at first to cover his face with a fan, and then gradually got used to putting away the fan, just wanted to ask Xue Yan behind him, but saw Xue Yan holding a blue flame fruit in one hand, and the one on his right hand had been bitten, and a cool fruit pulp flowed out. Seeing Yun Meng looking at herself, Xue Yan smiled and handed her the fruit in her other hand, and said, "Childe, taste it." ”

Yun Meng took the blue flame fruit, held it in his hand, and saw that the fruit was green all over, the lower end was smooth, and its tip was just like a ball of blue fire, so he couldn't help but smile and said, "Yan ...... Xiaocao, this is the tribute fruit, what do you do with the tribute fruit to me? ”

"I'll give you food, so much anyway." Xue Yan wiped the juice from her lips with her hand with a big grin, and said: "Ah Miao said that this is a special fruit of Lishu Mountain, and specially took two from the car for us to try, this fruit is really good, there is a lot of water, a bite is refreshing and sweet, and it can also clear heat and dispel fire, no wonder the goblins here like to eat it." ”

Yun Meng unfolded the fan, shook the fan and said, "But haven't you already eaten it?" ”

"I've eaten?" Xue Yan asked puzzledly, "When did you eat it?" How come I don't remember? ”

"Remember the tree you woke up against?" Yunmeng looked around the street, her jade eyes wandered away for a while, and then turned to Xue Yan's face, she said: "That tree is called Biyan Tree, there are many such trees in Lishu Mountain, they absorb the cold breath of the earth's veins, and they give birth to this kind of fruit that can reconcile yin and yang, at that time you were asleep for a long time, I was afraid that you would not be able to bear the heat of Lishu Mountain, so I fed it to you." ”

As soon as Xue Yan remembered that Yunmeng had done this for her, she couldn't help but take her hand and said, "Childe is the best for me, if it weren't for Childe's intimate rescue, Xiaocao would have died a long time ago, Xiaocao's life is Gongzi's, and I hope Gongzi won't dislike it!" ”

Yun Meng coughed and said in a deep voice: "Xiaocao, you have served me for many years, and you should save you, and I still hope that you will become an immortal as soon as possible, so that I will not have a lot of troubles." Hurry up and let go of your hands, hook up on the street, what kind of system will it become? ”

Xue Yan pretended to be cowardly and withdrew her hand, but thought in her heart: "This little dream, either you don't pretend to be better than me." ”

Only Ah Miao, the leader of the team, put his paws on his face, shook his head in distress and said, "Meow! I really can't stand them~! ”

It is said that this Red Flame City stretches for thousands of miles, but it is not false at all.

Ah Miao led the team to hurry up, passing countless streets and several urban districts, and arrived at the main gate of the Huoyun Palace in Tiankui City District at nearly dusk. Huoyun Palace leans on the blue lake of thirty miles in the west, occupies a circle of more than ten miles, there are thousands of palaces and pavilions, more than ten places in the flower garden, the palace is heavily guarded, there are enough to have two teams of elite guards guarding the door alone, the two white elephant captains who lead the left and right are holding a long-handled giant axe, wearing the giant spirit armor on their shoulders, and the body of three zhang stands tall.

The white elephant knew Ah Miao, and when he saw him leading the tribute convoy towards the main gate, they lowered their heads, rolled up their noses and greeted him: "Miao Ye, you can count it, it's not too early this day." ”

"Yes, you also know that my place is far away from the palace, and I also led the team to come non-stop." Ah Miao raised his head and said helplessly.

"Let's get inside." The white elephant spirit waved his hand to signal the team to go inside, and said, "If it's too late, the Lord won't be happy!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Ah Miao hurriedly led everyone inside.

At this time, the captain of the white elephant on the left suddenly sensed that something was wrong, pointed at Yun Meng and Xue Yan, and asked, "Slow!" What are they doing? ”

"Oh." Ah Miao smiled: "He is amazing, he is a wandering piano scattered immortal, quite good music, the one behind is of course his accompanying piano boy, has not yet cultivated into a fairy body, and his popularity has not been taken off, I saw that this qin fairy played the piano well, and I heard that the lord was lacking a boredom reliever, so he brought it in by the way and introduced it to the lord." ”

The white elephant spirit looked Yun Meng up and down, Yun Meng unfolded the fan, and moved the jade eyes away while fanning, making a look that he didn't put the white elephant spirit in his eyes.

The white elephant spirit went to see Xue Yan again, but saw Xue Yan with her head down, looking respectful, and she didn't see anything wrong, thought for a while, and said, "Let's go, hurry up, be sure to go to the Qianxin Hall before dark." ”

So, everyone continued to hurry, passed the west gate, and then passed the Chonghua gate, and finally arrived at the Qianxin Hall before it was completely dark.

Qianxin Hall can be regarded as the most magnificent palace in the whole Lishu Mountain, it bears the weight on the top of the palace (1), paved with red glazed tiles, sits down three layers of white jade pedestal, Dan Majesty (2) layer by layer, the four corners of the upper and lower three layers of eaves are carved a dragon head, a total of twelve dragons, magnificent. There is a square in front of the palace that can accommodate 10,000 people, and the whole hall is magnificent, worthy of being the main hall in the Huoyun Palace.

At this time, the sky was very dark, and the red light added a little worry to everyone's faces, Ah Miao arranged for everyone to stop paying tribute in front of His Majesty Dan, and said loudly to the palace: "Burning the sky, let you wait for a long time, see what I bring you!" ”

Exegesis:

(1) "Heavy eaves palace roof" - the highest level of building in the history of our country, the highest building in the Qing Dynasty in the Forbidden City is the top of the palace, but the text uses three layers of eaves, exaggerated.

(2) "Dan Majesty" - in ancient times, the steps in front of the palace were decorated with red, so it was called "Dan Majesty".