When the sky is twilight.

Then he saw the sunset in the west and the moon rising in the east, and the two gods appeared together in the sky, when the day and night meet.

On this day, the wonders of the sky in January, although there is a difference between light and dark, but it is also natural, all reflected in the clear and calm crescent moon spring, lapping up a circle of ripples, slowly surging into the green leaves of the water plants around the lake.

Looking up, the crescent spring, which had been filled with frolicking laughter and the shouting of the merchants, was now much quieter, except for the swaying of the branches and leaves when the evening breeze blew through the willows.

Come to think of it, it's time to go back to their respective homes to cook and cook, and no one will want to stay in this sandy desert for a long time, and sleep in the open all night.

In front of the ancient Guanquan Tower, Zhang Shan and Li Shi, who had been looking at the spring lake, stood up and placed the two empty brown wine jugs next to the vermilion rafters with the paint off. Then, Zhang Shan raised his hand and straightened the straight knife behind his waist, Li Shi looked sideways at the increasingly sparse crowd around him, and then glanced at each other in unison, and walked towards the two backs sitting side by side on the shore of the spring lake.

Zhang Shan and Li Shi didn't go fast, as if they were hesitating in their hearts, wanting to give the two white clothes some more time, and didn't want to disturb them.

But the reason why Guanquan Tower is called Guanquan Tower is naturally because it is not far from this crescent moon spring - that is, they did not walk thirty or fifty steps, and the two of them reluctantly came behind the white dress and white dress.

Zhang Shan looked at his not very generous back, took a breath, clenched his fists and said, "My lord, it's not early, we should go back." ”

Wang Manxiu, who had been staring at the ripples on the lake, was a little stunned, quite a little surprised by the smell of the person in the dream, raised his eyebrows to look at the sun and moon in the sky, looked at the fading red sunset, and replied in a daze: "Ah...... It's all about this time. ”

He lifted the Qinghe sword in his left hand that was flat in the grass, and with his right hand he picked up the crescent moon brew that was still half a pot, and slightly brushed the sleeve of his right body. Then, turning to the left, he smiled at her in the white dress and said, "Miss Yan, shall we go back?"

This was the first sentence he and she had said in half an hour, following the 'will it be'

Speech.

Zhong Liyan raised her eyebrows and let out a soft 'um-'.

Perhaps because the moonlight was brighter at night, the flush on her face had subsided a lot, and there was only a faint glimmer left in her originally crystal clear eyes, no longer as beautiful as before.

The two stood up one after another.

Zhong Liyan's delicate and fluttering long skirt was a little cumbersome, and when she got up, Li Shi stepped forward to support her slightly; Wang Manxiu was a person in the Qimen and a martial arts practitioner, so if he wanted to have a carp fight, it would naturally be no problem, that is, he would step on the ground with one foot and then support his legs, and then he could stand up neatly and easily.

It's just that I don't know if it's because of the wine to warm his stomach, Wang Manxiu's body shook slightly after getting up, staggered half a step, stepped on a splash, and then stood firmly.

He blinked, glanced at his reflection in the lake, and then at Zhang Shan, who looked away from him, and smiled faintly with a little embarrassment.

The aroma of wine is intoxicating, and the lake breeze is also intoxicating.

Unknowingly, it made him a little sleepy.

"Let's go back. ”

Wang Manxiu drank all the white wine in the pot, threw the wine pot made of clay tiles into the woven bamboo basket in the grass beside him, and stayed with the other bottles and jars. He wiped the wine stains from his mouth with his thumb, raised the corners of his lips slightly, and said, "Don't let the eldest son of the Zhou family wait for a long time at the south gate of the city." ”

Zhong Liyan nodded, and Zhang Shan and Li Shi hugged each other with a fist, and said like a military attaché in the army, "Yes!"

......

Sunset West Mountain.

This mountain is the heavenly mountain that is ten thousand feet high.

It is rumored that 'three thousand zhang into the sky, six thousand zhang to pick the stars, and nine thousand zhang to listen to the heavenly court', it only raised its hand slightly, and took the sun sinking in the west, hid its light, and ended the brief scene of the sun and the moon.

Only the hazy moonlight was left in the sky, slowly brightening the stars.

It's night.

On the desolate desert road, there are four figures, two by two, in a row, walking slowly.

It is two whites that are incompatible with the night in front, and the two dissolve in the night

The darkness is behind.

Slowly moving forward.

It's strange to say, obviously walking from Zhenhuang to Crescent Spring, and walking from Crescent Spring to Zhenhuang, are the same desert road...... But at this moment, facing the moonlight in the sky, they walked slowly and slowly, so slow that they seemed to stop at any time.

However, in fact, not all four of them are faltering, but among these four people, Zhang Shan and Li Shixing are in the second row, so they naturally have to match the pace of the first row, and Zhong Liyan, who is in the first row, follows Wang Manxiu's footsteps intentionally or unintentionally, and it is impossible to walk faster than Wang Manxiu.

So, actually, there is only one person, walking very slowly.

Wang Manxiu walked very slowly.

It's slow, and it's unstable.

I saw him holding the Qinghe sword, half-hanging his head, his eyes slightly closed, and moving forward step by step.

And as he walked more and more, his face became more and more pale, and his steps became more and more difficult—even on his forehead, there were some beads of sweat secreted.

Zhong Liyan, who had been silent and seemed to be thinking about something, noticed his appearance, raised her eyebrows in some surprise, and asked with concern, "Mr. Bai, what's wrong with you, why don't you look good?"

I saw Wang Manxiu slowly raise his head, looked at her lightly, took a breath, and said with a shallow smile: "It's okay, it's not a big deal...... Xiaosheng just ate a little more and drank a little more, a little drunk, and said weakly. ”

Zhong Liyan blinked, approached quickly, showed a worried look, and said, "Mr. Bai, your face doesn't look like a ......."

But before the words fell, she felt a warm palm gently caress the top of her head.

Zhong Liyan's face turned red for a moment, and he looked at the white clothes who raised his hand, not knowing what he meant by this.

Seeing Bai Yi smile slightly, he raised his eyebrows and glanced at the desert around him, and then glanced at the stars that were gradually brightening in the sky, and finally fell on her eyes.

"It's alright, Miss Yan. ”

Wang Manxiu opened his lips and said.

Then, I heard a 'thump-' sound.

The white clothes leaned forward and fell heavily into the dust.