Chapter Twenty-Three: Scorching Spring
Time passes like palm water, and it is a good time for spring.
In the depths of the smoke and red dust, the city is full of soft catkins, the spring is graceful, and the style is charming.
The curtain is windy, and the smoke and rain are misty. Bluestone streets and alleys, under the vermilion tile eaves, there are pleasant poems and songs from the school.
"Jasper is made into a tree high, and ten thousand green silk ribbons hang down ......"
"The light rain in the sky street is as moist as a crisp, and the grass is quiet but there is no ......"
In the voice of the young man, a discordant chant suddenly sounded.
"Butterflies dance in the snow in the pear orchard, and the warblers cry in the willows with smoke. The small pond is sunny, and the ramie mountain is mountainous. The blue bird does not come to be sad, and endures to see the mandarin duck double knot. The spring breeze is a young man's heart, and he can't help but hate it. ”
"Sir, the Lantern Festival is coming, his kid is unbearable!"
The noise suddenly rose, and the room was full of laughter, and it was recited from afar.
The sky is clean and clear twilight clouds and light smoke, I sit quietly in front of the high-rise Zhu Pavilion of Yihong Courtyard, listening to the anecdotes of the red dust, and knocking black jade chess pieces in my hands.
"Lan Yue, are you distracted, it's time for you to fall down. Chun Sanniang urged me softly.
I raised my eyes to look at Chun Sanniang who taught me to play the game, and in that Death Gu, I became Sanniang's life-saving benefactor.
Although, her white neck fell with tearing and scabbing scars. But now, she wears a blue and white porcelain-colored scarf around her neck to cover it, which is also chic and beautiful.
I smiled wistfully, and on the checkered board, I casually dropped the sunspots.
Chun Sanniang shook her head at me and regretted: "Lan Yue, look at you, you were originally sure to win." This distraction, a careless move, and in the end all lost. ”
"It's just a game of chess, I'm happy to lose, you're happy to win, just be comfortable. "I argue for my laziness and don't like to bother.
Chun Sanniang taught meaningfully: "Chess is like life, you can't be willful, you need to be cautious at all times." ”
I nodded perfunctorily and looked out the window at the crowd, worrying a lot.
Since the explosion of the evil corpses, the warlocks who have been injured by me do not know whether they are dead or alive.
Every day, I would hold a copper coin and go to the Yuelao Temple to look for him, but unfortunately I returned in vain.
I'm still worried about Caidie and Nian'er, and I don't know if I've eloped.
Since the Gu of the Grim Reaper subsided and learned that Luo Sheng had been safely sent back to Xuantianmen, I hurried there, but I didn't see Nian'er.
Even the colorful butterflies disappeared completely, as if the world had evaporated, and there was no more news.
Seeing my sad face, Chun Sanniang was kind to the east.
"Lan Yue, I'm going to buy some rouge gouache on the street, accompany me to it, and you can choose one by the way. ”
"Okay. Anyway, being idle is idle, I'll go with you. ”
I responded quickly, immediately packed up the chess pieces and plates, and went out with Chun Sanniang neatly.
On both sides of the dazzling streets, Chun Sanniang carefully selected a light peach-colored gouache and a jasper hairpin, and generously handed it to me.
"Apricot face and peach cheeks, black hair and hairpin. It's really for you. ”
How can there be a woman in the world who doesn't love rouge gouache and jade jewelry.
I happily took the object given by Chun Sanniang, and my lips opened slightly: "Thank you Sanniang." ”
"You're welcome. ”
After Chun Sanniang took out a lot of silver, she turned sideways to me with a slightly flattering face.
"Lan Yue, Sanniang has always been kind to you. As you know, some time ago there was a disturbance, and many of my girls were disfigured. The business of Yihong Courtyard is becoming more and more difficult, I promised you that I will not let you sell yourself in my Yihong Courtyard, but you can always sell your art, right?"
The rouge gouache and jasper hairpin I just held in the palm of my hand suddenly became like a fire, and the other became like ice, burning my hands and cooling my heart.
Chun Sanniang continued to chatter with tears, knowing it with affection, and moving with reason: "Lanyue, as long as you are willing to show up on stage, revitalizing my Yihong Courtyard is just around the corner." You can't bear to see me and my sisters drinking the northwest wind. ”
I still understand the truth of eating people with soft mouths and short hands.
Fortunately, the artist does not sell his body.
I looked up sadly and complied, but there was only one request: "When I go on stage, can I wear a veil?"
It's a hundred years old, and you have to save face.
If it is known by the Ten Thousand Demons of the Desolate Halberd, if it is known by the Shunjing Divine Monarch, if it is known by the Black Dragon brothers and sisters......
Don't dare to think, don't dare to think!
Chun Sanniang slapped her head excitedly, as if she had been empowered, and was pleasantly surprised-
"Lan Yue, you have such a good idea! Why didn't I think of it before! The more I called for the stage, the more I still hugged the pipa and half covered my face. It's eye-catching, it's provocative, it's very good!"
I had a black line on my face, and I was self-defeating, so I made myself a pit.
On the way back to Yihong Courtyard, passing by the Yuelao Temple, I subconsciously glanced back.
Burning incense in front of the old temple, wisps of white smoke, floating around.
The breeze blows the willows, the sun sets, and the soft spring sunlight falls under the eaves of Biwa Zhu, and falls in a pair of clear and vicissitudes of life.
The setting sun sank behind him, and the fortune-telling banner stood silently beside him.
He always sits alone in peace, like jade and water, lonely like an old pine and cypress tree.
Warlock.
He's not dead, he's fine, he's still alive.
It's like spring scorching.
I was pleasantly surprised, and I couldn't help but clench the copper coin in my palm tightly.