Chapter 138: Flowing Water is Ruthless
The New Year is approaching, and the Xianwang Mansion is full of guests.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Luoyang City are waiting with great interest to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. In the past few days, it seems that everyone is immersed in a joyful and festive atmosphere, and even the General's Mansion has become extremely calm.
There was no word for days until Chinese New Year's Eve.
Snow falls from the sky, and blessings are all over the city. The goose feathers and heavy snow are like catkins drifting in the wind. Luoyang City is covered in silver, every household is lit up, and the white snow and the fiery red Spring Festival couplets echo each other, adding a touch of festivity to the New Year.
When night falls, the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet in King Xian's Mansion is lively and sumptuous. In addition to the relatives and friends who came to visit, the mansion from the lord of the mansion, the seven heroes, to the ordinary disciples, all gathered together. Before and after, there are hundreds of large tables, stretching for three halls and two courtyards, thousands of disciples of the Xianwang Mansion, and heroes and heroes from all walks of life, all of whom are not drunk and have no home tonight.
The momentum is huge, the scale is magnificent, and the rivers and lakes are rare.
Tonight, the palace in the palace of King Xian, like a jade cup, mountains and seas, and a fine wine. The inexhaustible elixir and jade liquid, the inexhaustible gluttonous delicacies, how can the word "happy" be described?
Luo Tianjin, who was full of interest, had fun with the disciples to drink and spend a lot of money to reward everyone. The generosity of the shot is not only surprising, but also grateful.
It's a pity that such a feast still can't keep Luo Ningyu's heart.
Not long after the banquet began, Luo Ningyu, who casually took a few sips of wine and food, hurriedly ran to Luo Tianjin and Ling Xiaoxiao's side and whispered. After hearing this, Luo Tianjin and Ling Xiaoxiao turned their eyes to Liu Xunyi, who was pushing glasses and changing glasses with Lin Fangda and others, and talking about wine.
Under Luo Ningyu's pleading, Luo Tianjin pondered for a moment, and then nodded with a wry smile, looking very helpless.
Seeing this, Luo Ningyu hurriedly came to Liu Xunyi's side, and before Lin Fangda could get up to greet her, she couldn't help but pull Liu Xunyi up and left the table in a hurry. Liu Xunyi looked stunned, and wanted to refuse, but she couldn't stand Luo Ningyu's insistence and the "instigation" of Lin Fangda and others, so she had to leave the Xianwang Mansion with her all the way and go straight to the bustling downtown in the north of Luoyang City.
Under the twilight of the sky, snowflakes flutter in the wind. Liu Xunyi and Luo Ningyu strolled through the brightly lit downtown of Luoyang.
At this time, the people on the street were bustling, all of them were full of spring breeze and smiling. Walking through the streets lined with lanterns, people rub shoulders and walk one step at a time. Looking from afar, I saw crowds of people, crowds of people, extremely lively.
"Woohoo!"
"Bang bang bang!"
One after another, people raised their eyes to look up, but they saw dozens of brilliant fireworks blooming in an instant in the vast night sky.
Fireworks burst down at the end of the sky, like a rainstorm of pear blossoms, scattered around the world. This scene was so beautiful that the people suddenly let out an exclamation. After the fireworks burst, they quickly turned into dazzling arcs, intertwined and compared with each other, and finally dissipated into the endless night.
The fireworks feast on Chinese New Year's Eve, it is you singing and I appear, a piece of fireworks in the eastern sky has just ended, but dozens of streams of light suddenly rose in the west, and in the blink of an eye, they bloomed one after another, illuminating the sky again.
Rising in the east and falling in the west, falling in the east and rising in the west, one after another, dazzling and dizzying.
Hearing this, the innocent children all danced and clapped their hands. The elders were smiling and beaming. It is a good faction of the river and the sea, and the peace and prosperity of the heavens and the earth.
Seeing such a scene, Liu Xunyi couldn't help but recall the past when he was in Lin'an and enjoyed the fireworks with Zhao Xin, and a touch of indescribable lovesickness suddenly welled up in his heart. For a while, he stood in the crowd, looking at the fireworks in the sky, stunned.
The prosperity of Luoyang is not much better than that of Lin'an. It's a pity that today's peace is just an illusion, thinking about the danger of the Song Dynasty and the difficulty of the country, the world will become a place of war at any time...... Thinking of this, Liu Xunyi couldn't help but let out a bitter sigh.
"Xunyi, have you ever seen such amazing fireworks?"
Luo Ningyu didn't know what Liu Xunyi was thinking, she was carefully dressed up tonight, dressed in red, Tingting charming, with light makeup on her handsome face, without losing her charm. But she found that Liu Xunyi didn't seem to be too surprised by her makeup tonight, but always looked absent-minded.
"I've seen ......," Liu Xunyi replied subconsciously.
"Where have you seen it?"
Liu Xunyi suddenly came back to his senses, turned to look at Luo Ningyu, who was smiling and full of expectation, and said with a light smile: "Have you forgotten that I have been to Lin'an?"
Luo Ningyu nodded undeniably, and said, "I saw that you were sullen tonight, but the wound on your body hurt again?"
Seeing that Luo Ningyu cared about him so much, Liu Xunyi couldn't help but be grateful, and shook his head: "It's just a skin injury, and it's already fine." The reason why I can get better so quickly is because you gave me the medicine. ”
In fact, Liu Xunyi had vaguely noticed that Luo Ningyu seemed to have a good impression of him, but he couldn't accept it, and he didn't even dare to think about it.
First, because there is only one woman in Liu Xunyi's heart, and that is Zhao Xin. The second is because Liu Xunyi knows that Lin Fangda has been in love with Luo Ningyu for a long time, and he and Lin Fangda are brothers in life and death, how can they win people's love?
Therefore, the more Luo Ningyu cared about him, the more Liu Xunyi would deliberately distance himself, trying to draw a distance between them.
"Between you and me, you don't have to ......be so polite," Luo Ningyu muttered angrily.
The two stepped on the snow and walked slowly through the crowd of people coming and going, and neither of them spoke for a long time.
"Looking for clothes. Walking to the bottom of the archway, Luo Ningyu suddenly stopped, turned to look at Liu Xunyi affectionately, and said softly, "Where did you come from?"
was suddenly asked by Luo Ningyu, Liu Xunyi couldn't help but be shocked. secretly speculated on the deep meaning of Luo Ning's words, for fear that he would accidentally reveal the clues. He hesitated for a long time, but he never spoke.
In the face of Liu Xunyi's silence, Luo Ningyu had no different face, still silently staring at Liu Xunyi, and continued: "Where did you come from? Why did you come to me......
Hearing this, Liu Xunyi's hanging heart suddenly put down, and said secretly: It turned out that it was not that he was exposing his feet, but that Luo Ning had something else to say.
"Ningyu, I ......"
"Maybe this is fate!" Luo Ning interrupted Liu Xunyi and said, "I heard Lin Fangda say...... Said that you have a sweetheart, and you also went to the Mandarin Duck Pavilion in Quanzhou for her, and carefully selected a golden hairpin, right?"
At this moment, Luo Ningyu was both curious and worried. What she is curious about is whether Liu Xunyi really has a sweetheart? What she is worried about is what if Liu Xunyi's sweetheart is not herself?
Liu Xunyi stared at Luo Ningyu, whose cheeks were crimson, and hesitated for a long time before slowly nodding and saying, "Yes." ”
Luo Ningyu's expression froze, and her eyes became a little erratic, as if she didn't dare to look at Liu Xunyi anymore, and asked in a low voice, "Then your sweetheart...... But the hoarfrost of the Water Pavilion?"
"Huh?" Liu Xunyi was stunned for a moment, pondering for a long time without a head, and couldn't figure out why Luo Ningyu said this.
"It was Lin Fangda who told me, you don't have to hide it from me......" Luo Ningyu's face turned red, but she was still stubborn, "But I want to tell you that Baishuang is not an ordinary woman." She is Lu Tingxiang's favorite concubine, even if you like her, it won't help......"
"Misunderstanding!" Liu Xunyi hurriedly shook his head and said, "I never said that I liked Miss White Frost, this ...... This is eighty percent because the eldest brother misunderstood what I meant. Miss White Frost and I are just ordinary friends. ”
"Really?" Luo Ningyu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he raised his head suddenly, his eyes were shy but he refused to back down, and asked wryly, "That'...... Who's your sweetheart?"
"My sweetheart is ......" As for this, Liu Xunyi's appearance appeared in his mind again, and he couldn't help but feel warm in his heart, but he didn't say any more.
It is impossible for Liu Xunyi to tell Luo Ningyu that his sweetheart is the lord of the Great Song Dynasty. It's his secret, how dare Liu Xunyi take a risk?
Seeing that Liu Xunyi wanted to speak and stopped, a touch of curiosity and eagerness suddenly appeared in Luo Ningyu's eyes. At the same time, she was secretly imagining in her heart: "Does Xunyi like me, but he is embarrassed to say it to his face?"
"Your sweetheart ......" Luo Ningyu plucked up her courage again and again, staring at Liu Xunyi without squinting, her eyes trembled slightly, and even her breathing became a little short, "Did you meet in Lin'an?"
Liu Xunyi thought of Zhao Xin in his heart, and was defenseless for a while, and subconsciously blurted out: "How do you know?"
Liu Xunyi's answer was tantamount to acquiescence to her.
Luo Ningyu couldn't help but feel excited, feeling that she was extremely light, her heart was infinitely happy, and the whole person was fluttering, and she couldn't wait to fly into the nine heavens.
"Ningyu?" Liu Xunyi called out in surprise, "You...... What's wrong?"
"Then do you know ......" Luo Ningyu didn't answer the rhetorical question, and was infinitely shy, "Actually, the person you like is also ...... Like you too?"
Liu Xunyi was stunned again, looking at Luo Ningyu stupidly, and didn't know how to respond for a while.
"Looking for clothes!"
Luo Ningyu suddenly opened her arms, grabbed Liu Xunyi's waist, and took the initiative to throw her delicate body into his arms. Before Liu Xunyi could react, she closed her eyes tightly, turned her heart sideways, and said quickly, "Actually, I like you too, I have a good impression of you since I first saw you, and then we have experienced so many things together." Now I can't extricate myself from you, you ......"
"Ningyu!"
Faced with Luo Ningyu's sudden confession, Liu Xunyi was shocked and hurriedly pushed it away, while he quickly took a few steps back in a panic, waved his hand again and again, and said, "Ning...... Miss, you...... How can you like me? No, no, no, no!"
"Why?" Luo Ningyu did not relent, took the initiative to take a step closer to Liu Xunyi, and asked, "Are you afraid that your father and mother will not agree?"
"It's not for this reason, it's just ......" Liu Xunyi desperately thought of the appropriate wording in his mind, and quickly explained, "Miss, you may have misunderstood me, what I said about my sweetheart...... It's not that you ......" Liu Xunyi's last sentence was extremely difficult. Although he didn't want to hurt Luo Ningyu's heart, he also knew that cutting and untidying was messy, and that long pain was better than short pain.
"Boom!"
As soon as these words came out, Luo Ningyu felt like he had suffered a thunderous blow, and he was hit on the head. The whole person was stunned, his mind was blank, his heart was full of tastes, all kinds of pain, and he was lost, regretful, frustrated, and sad for a while...... A thousand things came to her, and she was overwhelmed.
But her face was expressionless, only two lines of light tears, and I don't know when they had rolled down without a fight.
"Original...... It turns out that I was just wishful thinking......"
"Miss, I'm ......"
"Don't pay attention to me!" Without waiting for Liu Xunyi to speak to comfort, Luo Ningyu suddenly took a few steps back, and waved her hand to interrupt Liu Xunyi's words, she looked at Liu Xunyi with teary eyes, and couldn't help choking up, "I don't want to listen to you now...... I don't want to see you again...... Let me be alone for a while......"
"But ......"
"Liu Xunyi, I beg you. Luo Ningyu desperately suppressed the grief in her heart, and said calmly, "You let me think about it alone, you go back first, I want to stay alone for a while...... When I figure it out, I'll go back myself......"
"How can I leave you alone on the street......"
"Liu Xunyi, I have already lost face in front of you, my expectations, my pride, and my self-confidence have all become worthless in front of you, do you still want to take away my last bit of self-esteem?" Luo Ning couldn't cry and begged bitterly, "I don't want to ...... I don't want you to see me weak again...... Please, you go......"
Liu Xunyi looked at the grief and anger Luo Ningyu, and was very anxious, but helpless. In a momentary dilemma, he could only stand aside with bitter eyes and remain motionless.
Luo Ningyu waved her hand to stop all Liu Xunyi's words and deeds, and instead walked quickly towards the crowd, looking at her panicked appearance, it was like she was running for her life.
"Since you don't like me, don't be so nice to me anymore...... I don't like that......"
Liu Xunyi wanted to catch up, but Luo Ningyu's sudden words made him unable to take a step no matter what, so he could only look at Luo Ningyu's back with melancholy eyes, and gradually disappeared into the crowd.
At this time, the night sky, the fireworks are still brilliant and bright, and they are blooming indulgently. The crowd was still beaming with joy and laughter.
The world has always been like this, no matter what kind of suffering you are going through, what kind of torture you are suffering, the fireworks in the sky are still blooming, and the passers-by around you are still laughing and talking.
Joys and sorrows, self-knowledge.
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