Chapter 30: Tomorrow Across the Mountains and Rivers
Ember recalled that on the first day he came to Heavenly Court, he also forgot what time it was, and only felt that Heavenly Court was so beautiful, and he followed behind Xingjun timidly, but his eyes kept looking at the things around him, and he was walking on a road paved with cloud brocade, and he felt warm in his heart when he stepped on it.
Xingjun led her to the Tianmu Courtyard to take notes, because she was illiterate at that time, and she didn't know what to write. After remembering the name file, he went to Tianyi Pavilion to write down the size of his body, and in the future, there will be Xian'e to deliver clothes, and finally, he went to the Huoyun Palace.
The palace ladies of the Huoyun Hall cleaned and tidied up the courtyard and palace before the end of the day, prepared the day's refreshments and stored water and left.
Although the side hall arranged for her was not as good as Xingjun's bedroom, she was sleeping in bed for the first time, and she kept rolling around excitedly. And Xingjun just stood like that, without speaking, and smiled faintly, but she remembered that there was a sign of water in his eyes at that time, and she didn't know until later that it was tears.
Why did he cry at that moment, she still didn't understand.
Ember looked at the road beneath his feet, dark, hard, and as cold as the cloak on his body.
"Ash. ”
In a trance, it was as if he heard someone calling him, was it Xingjun?
He walked slowly towards her, and the two Heavenly Guards saluted him and stepped back, not hindering the Star Monarch.
"Xingjun, why are you here?" Ember still couldn't help but move with a bundle of immortal ropes tied to his hands, he closed her hand in his palm, she felt his temperature, and gradually stopped feeling the biting cold of the night wind.
"Do you blame me?" his timid and sad tone, his face so broken that he was vulnerable.
Ember felt an unbearable pain in his heart, "Why do you want to complain?"
"Xingjun, don't worry about me, I'm just exiled, His Majesty the Emperor of Heaven will not put me to death. ”
He held Ember in his arms, "Wait for me, okay?"
"Xingjun, I said that as long as you don't leave me, I will always be by your side. She stood on tiptoe, kissed him on the lips, and gently pushed him away, "Go back, I'll wait for you." ”
Xingjun, I can already cry, the fire on my forehead has been extinguished, I am indeed no longer the stupid little fire demon I used to be, I don't understand anything.
I don't want to show my nostalgia for you, and worry about the unknown future, because I am afraid of implicating you, afraid that you will not be able to sit firmly in the position of Huode Xingjun, thinking about the past hundreds of years, I know that there is a gap between you and me, I am a demon, and you are an immortal.
There are so many stories that warn us not to be reckless, not to take all the plunge......
Since then, I have been getting farther and farther away from you, but I feel at ease, and what is more important than living in peace.
I will love you in my own way and protect you as long as you care about me.
Hundred Flower Palace.
"Yu Rong, when the god asked you, you knew that you were wrong, but you didn't admit it. Now that 400 years have passed, do you have any other answer?"
Si Shen knew it in his heart, so why bother asking again. Yu Rong handed over a cup of brewed flower tea.
She smiled and nodded her eyebrows, "After four hundred years, I will have some thoughts, but don't frown, these days, you don't have to be on an errand, rest first." ”
Yu Rong suddenly bowed down in front of Si Shen, and his tone was sincere, "Yu Rong wants to ask Si Shen about it." ”
"What?"
"Yu Rong's name is really narrow, and I hope that God will allow him to change his name. ”
"What's so difficult about this, don't plead, but you can think about it? After all, you are an immortal, and this name change can be said to avoid suspicion of being imprisoned, but if you want to change back to your old name in the future, it will not be easy. ”
"I've thought it through. She said, bowing deeply.
"Okay, in that case, tomorrow you can take my divine seal and go to the Heavenly Courtyard. Si Shen took pity on this child, and spent four hundred years in heaven alone, and although she begged the queen of heaven to reduce her punishment, she was not immune to punishment.
"Si Shen, please call in the next place from now on, and will leave. ”
"Leave your heart behind and leave here. ”
Such a wish shows your enlightenment. I lost 400 years in vain, and I will cherish it in the future. ”
Barren mountains outside the sky.
The ember was dazed and wanted to open his eyes, but because of a headache, he couldn't get up, so he lay down like that, remembering that it was Tianwei who used the immortal method to blindfold his eyes, untie the fairy rope, and slapped himself here with one palm.
She still closed her eyes, her fingers touching the objects around her, fortunately, there was soft grass, not a barren place. Some droplets of water dripped on her lips, cool and sweet. She imagined herself sleeping under a tree, and the droplets of water were flowing from the branches, and she drank the droplets slowly, and the throat was no longer dry.
There are trees and grass, there should be flowers, or whatever, in short, you can live, and that's good.
A rough, I don't know what it is, with a little warmth, touching her cheek, what could it be? It moves, is it a little demon? Thinking of this, she is really happy.
She endured the headache, tried her best, and opened her eyes.
"Ahh
She screamed and tried to escape, but couldn't do anything because her body was in too much pain.
The guy looked at her frightened, and actually lowered his face and became shy.
Its appearance was terrifying, more terrifying than any youkai Ember had ever seen before.
It is tall and strong, the skin of its whole body is blue-black like bark, its ten fingers are like the unicorn claws she saw in the album of Xingjun's study, it has no hair, its ears are like purple heptagonal shells, only its facial features are almost the same as its face, but the skin on its face is also rough, and it is very funny to wear human clothes.
"Who are you?" Seeing that it was a little pitiful, Ember couldn't help but talk to it, but suddenly it occurred to him that it was such a demon beast, how could it speak.
"I don't have a name......" it replied clearly, like a human being speaking.
It has learned to speak, and it speaks so well, it is a spirit animal.
There is no name, although she lived lonely in Luotang Mountain a long, long time ago, she has a name, but the only memory is the name.
Ember felt pity for it, her eyes were hot, and she untied her cloak and tried to get closer to it.
It looked her in the eye earnestly, and for a long time did not speak, just watched quietly. But she saw in its eyes infinite loss, fear, sorrow, and even despair, what really happened to it?
"A day ago, I was ready to kill myself...... But I met you......"
Ember didn't expect it to say something like that, puzzled, "Why?"
It shook its head slightly, as if to signal that there were things she didn't need to know, and that it was useless to say more.
"You are very kind, you saved me, I owe you a favor. ”
"No one ever said I was kind. ”
“...... To me, you are kind. Ember said with certainty.
"Are you a fairy in the sky?"
Ember replied with a smile, "I'm a little demon, I made a mistake, I was exiled, and I'm not a fairy." ”
"What about you?"
"I'm a youkai too. ”
"My name is Ember, you don't have a name, what should I call you......" Ember racked his brains, trying to figure out how to give it a domineering name.
"You don't have to give me a name, I have a name in my heart, I just don't think anyone cares, and no one calls me that. ”
Its hand was so big that Ember could only hold half of its palm, "There will be me in the future, you see, you saved me, and I will be exiled here in the future, so let's make friends." ”
Ember could feel its trembling the moment she touched its skin, and subconsciously said, "Don't be afraid. ”
Its body was still a little stiff, and Ember had to retract its hand, but it grabbed it, holding her hand in the palm of its hand.
As if it had been relied on in some way, its body, which had been sitting cross-legged, became natural and no longer defensive.