Chapter 12: Short and Long

She held her chin and squinted at him, she was eighteen and he was sixteen.

Her name is Qin Qin, and she is very beautiful. His name is Meng Baiyu, and he is very deep.

She is the daughter of the city lord of Zhongzhou City, and she said that she likes him, but will not marry him, and she wants him to be her younger brother. He said that he was a prodigal son, and he would not change his surname or change his name, and he would pity her and be willing to protect her.

He saved her when he was at his worst, and he was her savior. Her father, the lord of Middle-earth City, was a very dignified man and asked him to marry her, but she disagreed, saying that she didn't want to drag down such a down-and-out but kind person because of her illness.

He was eventually allowed to stay in the City Lord's Mansion and accompany her. He said he would pay her for the last ride.

She said she liked roses, and he said they were in the back garden, and he took her to see them.

She said she didn't, because there were not only flowers but also trees in the back garden. He asked why he didn't look at the trees, and she said that the rose tree was ugly, and she liked beauty and didn't like ugliness.

He no longer said to take her to the back garden, he went to pick roses every day to give her them.

She likes to eat cucumbers, but she doesn't like to eat melon flesh and skin, so he scrapes the skin of melons every time, separates the flesh and hearts, and only gives her melon hearts.

She likes to read, so he accompanies her to read. He was born in the countryside and often couldn't read, so she would teach him by hand.

She would also inquire about him, and he said that he also liked someone, and liked him deeply, but that person didn't like him, and married someone in front of him.

She said that people live for a lifetime, they must learn to be happy and learn to let go. He nodded, but he couldn't put it down.

Every morning, he would push her out into the courtyard to bask in the sun, and she said that every boy likes spirituality, so why never saw him practice or play spiritual arts?

He said that they only cultivated the fields there, and there were no spiritual teachers, no one to teach. She said she was looking for someone to teach him, and he said, no, it's overage.

She said that people don't have to be spiritual to have a future, and 360 lines are the best in the world.

He nodded, but his eyes were looking into the distance.

She knew he was acting poorly, but she never broke it. She said that if people like something, they must fight for it, and don't wait for old age to be sad.

He said that giving up is also a kind of wisdom, don't embarrass yourself. She agreed with him, just as she gave up on him, and although she gave up, she never really lost him.

Sometimes they don't say anything, sometimes they are silent, just sit quietly and feel each other's heartbeats.

She also wanted to go out, but her family wouldn't allow her to pass out again. He wanted to say that he was not afraid. But he didn't say it in the end, because he knew that he wasn't a healer, and he couldn't know when her illness would strike.

She said that she also wanted to see the famous mountains and rivers in this world, and he said, you get better quickly, I will take you there.

She nodded, tears streaming down her eyes.

He accompanied her for a whole year, her illness did not improve, but became worse day by day, and the city lord invited a lot of Lang Zhong to help her heal, both near and far, but her illness did not improve at all. And he has become her best medicine, as long as he is there, her face will be warm.

It is said that the Holy Spirit can heal the sick, and he gave her the pendant that You Yang had given him, but she couldn't stand it, so he had to take it back.

The outside world is very chaotic, because the news of the theft of the Holy Spirit Spirit of Mengdu has spread, some say that it was stolen by someone from Zhongzhou, some say that it was stolen by the Soul Sect, and some say that it was stolen by him. In short, they slander each other, you rob me.

She said that the Soul Sect is a new sect, very mysterious, but very powerful, let him not go out easily, he nodded and agreed. Although he lived in the palace, he also knew a few things, including the trouble that Mondu sent people to find him. In fact, he was no longer afraid of them, and he had no hatred, he trespassed into the Menggu Tower, and they still took in his clansmen, and he was very grateful in his heart.

She said, will you go back? He said he couldn't go back, so he didn't think about it. He actually didn't want to go back, and it should be much better for him to escape than to face it.

He said that if he were the Creator, he would have made her perfect and would not have left her sick. She said that she did not want him to be the Creator, and the Creator could not create love.

She said that her beauty was not created by the Creator, but where her heart was; He felt that she was right, only inner beauty is true beauty.

She was talking in her sleep again, and she called his name, over and over again. He took her hand and said, "I'm here, I'm here." She woke up and smiled when she saw him.

She said, "Am I still pretty?" and he said, pretty, like a fairy.

She wept, and he wept with him; Then, they laughed together again.

She said, I really don't want to leave, I haven't seen enough, I haven't lived enough; He said that he would not leave for a moment, that he would let her see enough, that he would let her live forever in his memory.

He knew that when she said this, she was saying goodbye to him.

She said, you can help me comb my hair, I love beauty. So he found a comb to comb her hair, gently, over and over again.

After combing her hair, she said that she was a little sleepy and wanted to lie down, so he helped her to lie down and kissed her.

She died, and she left peacefully.

He didn't cry, he felt relieved and relieved when he remembered the bowl of potion that he could never drink, and when he remembered how she couldn't sleep all night because of her illness.

On the day he went up the mountain, he went out of the city lord's mansion for the first time, because she was not married and had no children, and she was closest to him during her lifetime, so he was allowed to break the send-off irrigation and hold the spirit flag.

He stayed in the cemetery for a long time before returning to the City Lord's Mansion, and stayed in the City Lord's Mansion for another thirteen days, and only after the spirit was burned did he resign to the City Lord.

"Are you leaving?" The lord of the city is haggard and smart. A majestic person on weekdays, in the days after his daughter's illness and death, he also made a big comeback.

"I think it's time for me to leave." He said.

The lord of the city gave him some taels of silver and ordered him to be sent out of the palace.

He left the City Lord's Mansion, but he didn't leave Middle-earth City. He found a tavern in the middle of the city, and fell asleep, sleeping in the dark.

When he woke up, he asked the shopkeeper for tea, sat on the edge of the street, and quietly watched the endless flow of pedestrians on the street.

When he first entered the city, he didn't have time to enjoy the landscape of the city because of an emergency, and he didn't come out after entering the city lord's mansion.

At this moment, if you look closely at this city, you will find that this city is different from Mengdu, the buildings here are much higher, with green tiles and red walls, abrupt cornices, high fluttering shop flags, teahouses, taverns, pawnshops, and workshops on both sides of the street, all show that this is a prosperous capital.

Of course, none of these are as tall and majestic as the City Lord's Mansion.

But none of this has anything to do with him, what does it have to do with him, he's just a stranger in a foreign land.

Qin Qin is gone, his heart seems to be gone, his heart is empty, and he wants to cry.

It was dark, it was bright again, but he still sat quietly.

He looked at the day of Middle-earth City, and also looked at the night of Middle-earth City.

Because of Qin Qin's illness and Qin Qin's death, the city lord had no intention of managing it, the order of the market was unstable, some people had red eyes, fidgeted, and ran around, some of them fought when they didn't get along, some robbed them, and some blasphemed women.

Someone told the city lord about the situation, and the city lord knew that he had not left, so he took the spirit master all the way to find him. The reason why the city lord looked for him was because the city lord thought of him for the first time.

They've fallen for it, or Miss miss, he said.

"Come with me." The lord of the castle said, his eyes were red too.

He and the city lord went downstairs and came to the street, where the former was full of bustling and busy traffic, and the busy scene had disappeared, and around the corner, a man was smashing other people's shops.

The city lord arrested the man and asked, why did you smash people's shops?

The man said, it should be smashed, the black merchant has accumulated a lot of treasures, and he feels comfortable after smashing it.

The spirit master of the city lord was angry and slapped the man in the face. The man was in pain and fled in confusion.

He and the lord of the city continued to walk down the street, and when they came to a winery, they saw a beggar begging with his head bowed, and the lord put a broken silver in the man's bowl. The beggar did not lift his head, nor spoke.

Why don't you thank someone who gives you money? The city lord's spirit master asked.

This bit of broken silver, is it also worth opening? The beggar still doesn't look up.

The spirit of the city lord was angry and retrieved the broken silver from the beggar's bowl.

Along the way, I asked many people in a row, but I couldn't come up with a reason.

The city lord had no choice but to go back to the house, and when the city lord went back, he also invited him, but he refused, he didn't want to go back to that place, it was too lonely.

He went back to the restaurant. The waning moon came out, and although it wasn't winter, he felt cold.

The cold he felt at this moment was not the same as the cold he felt in Mengdu that night. That night, the sky was really cold, and the heart was cold. The moment is bleak.

He thought of his mother again, thought of You Lian, and wondered if they were okay, and if the clansmen were okay?

He also thought of You Yang, is she still happy?

He said that he would protect Qin Qin, but in the end he didn't protect her, she left, leaving him alone, is she still in pain over there? You won't drink that hard-to-swallow medicine in a big bowl anymore, will you?

He suddenly felt that he should be grateful to Yang Xiong, who was the one who protected You Yang for him.

The waning moon is gone, and he is still sitting in front of the Xuanlan, does the waning moon fall in the western sky, or is it depressed in the vast night sky? He thought about it for a long time, but still couldn't come up with a result. He stopped thinking about the waning moon, and since it was gone, something new must have appeared. What will happen? Then he had something to look forward to. What to expect? He didn't know, he just knew that he had been looking forward to it, what was it that he had been looking forward to, what he had been looking forward to for a long time - a day, a year, ten years? He didn't know, all he knew was that he had thought long and hard about what he was expecting, trying to figure out what he was expecting, but it turned out to be futile. This confused him. ­

At this moment, the candle lamp on the table was burning dimly, and a moth flew in, fluttering the dim yellow flame, and finally died under the fire. He tried to save the moth, but it was too late.

What one cannot afford to lose is faith. Moths put out the fire and died under the lamp. He praised the moth, and even though his goal was not achieved, it was a great act. Now that the waning moon is gone, there must be something else new, right? ­

He thought of Qin Qin again, she was like a flash in the pan in his life, but she was in his life and would accompany him for the rest of his life.