Chapter 8 Acacia and the bright moon, shining on the autumn water with affection
"Wake up, why didn't you rest in the fishing house last night?"
When Long Sizhong sped forward in the sky again, saying a lot of irrelevant words, Lingyi finally couldn't help but ask the question hidden in his heart. After all, when the initial confusion has passed, and the girl returns to the blue sky and white sun, the girl will always be the first to wake up. If she was really indulgent last night, then according to the current etiquette, she doesn't know how to deal with herself now.
Therefore, when she flew over the cold clouds again, and was blown by the cold wind, Ling Yi'er was grateful to the person sitting next to her in her heart.
It's just that the girl's mind is entangled and it is difficult to guess, and gratitude is grateful, but Lingyi can't help but have a trace of doubt in her heart: Could it be that my appearance is not good enough? Otherwise, why could he be ruthless to leave the house last night to practice?
This question is not trivial for a girl with a conceited appearance, so even if the scene last night was embarrassing, Lingyi still mustered up the courage and found a gap to ask in the most normal tone.
Hearing Lingyi ask, Xingyan hesitated for a moment, thought about it, and then scratched his head and replied embarrassedly: "Alas, Lingyi, you also know that although I, a disciple of the Taoist sect who has been a seeker since childhood, have an extremely strong mind and act extremely squarely, if I really live in the same room with a beautiful girl like you for a long night, I will definitely not be able to hold my ......."
"I went to practice on the reef and teased the crabs on the beach, but in fact, it was just to divert my attention so as not to have a demon attack!"
“...... I don't believe it!~"
Hearing Xingyan say that he was acting "extremely square", Ling Yi'er couldn't help but take a sip, and when she heard him say that he "couldn't hold it", she remembered the scene last night, and her heart was like a deer, and she was about to beat him on the shoulder. It's just that when I heard this nondescript confession just now, Lingyi'er was really happy inside, although the pink fist was raised high, it was finally quietly put away, and it was in vain to dodge.
It's just that, looking at the half-shy and half-coquettish divine light on the dragon girl powder beside him, the hall master of the four seas, who had just laughed casually, sighed secretly in his heart, and said: "Lingyi, after all, you are the dragon god in the water......;
Thinking of this, and then looking at the silver snow dragon horses in front of him, Xingyan felt so sad in his heart. The girl next to him had a beautiful face, and she didn't notice his melancholy.
Stepping on the dragon car on the way home, it rushed forward, splashing white cloud crystals all the way, flying beside Lingyi Xingyan, as if it was raining fog and snow in the sky.
After this delay in the morning, by the time Lingyi's chariot approached Panlong Town, it was already full of moonlight. This night happened to be the fifteenth day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. When the chariot dragged by the dragon horse came to the sky above Panlong Town, there were clouds rolling in the originally cloudless sky, and the bright moon was covered in a layer of fish-scale clouds.
"It's my brother who is back!"
When the sky was full of moire, a little girl jumped up and down happily on the roof of a wing house of an inn in the town.
"Sister Xue Yi, the hall master's brother and the dragon girl's sister are back!"
Seeing the familiar breath wafting from the cloud road, the excited Qiong Wei jumped off the high roof with a "whirl", and before she could land on her feet, she reported loudly to Xue Yijie in the house - in order to be the first to see them come back, Qiong Wei had been sitting on the roof for a whole night.
Listening to Qiong Wei's words, Kou Xueyi hurriedly picked up the huge watermelon she bought during the day on the table, and then raised her hand, and a light snow fell around the green-skinned and black-veined melons and fruits. A moment later, a thin layer of ice crystals formed on the watermelon. In this way, Xue Yi and Qiong Wei have tried many times in the past two days. Now she knew that only by casting a spell at about this time could she just make the melon flesh cool and delicious. If it is frozen early, the flesh is hard as ice, which is not conducive to chewing, and if it is frozen late, the skin is warm and the entrance is not cool.
By the time the awakening words and lingyi floated down from the low-hanging clouds, all kinds of melons and fruits were already on the table in the courtyard. When she fell to the ground, Xue Yi was moving bamboo stools and chairs, and Qiong Wei was flipping up and down, busy arranging the moon viewing and eating on the table. When they saw the two of them floating in the courtyard, the two sisters stood together and greeted them in unison. Although these separated people have only been separated for two days, they feel that they have been separated for a long time, and they are naturally very happy to see each other again at this moment. After a few greetings, Xingyan beckoned everyone to sit down together and chat about the moon by the bamboo case in the small courtyard.
The moonlit night of the Mid-Autumn Festival is quiet and serene, and the four travelers in the small courtyard sit around the desk in the faint moonlight, eating melons and fruits, while talking about interesting things after their separation. When it came to the boys' hears, Lingyi Qiongwei laughed loudly, and when it came to the girl's family's personal affairs, they turned their backs on the hall master who pretended to be confused, and leaned aside to whisper.
Looking at these girls who are as harmonious as a family, eating the reunion crisp family cakes that Qiong Wei specially bought from the market, Xingyan's heart suddenly seemed to be touched, and he especially missed those leisurely years on the Thousand Bird Cliff. Although the days on the Thousand Bird Cliff were as plain as water, looking back now, I feel exceptionally warm and cordial.
"Well, I should also step up the search for the lost water spirit, and strive to return to Luofu Mountain as soon as possible!"
Just when Xingyan changed his mind, the girls in front of him had already taken off their hairpins, and let the smooth green silk hang down and hang down like a waterfall next to their ears and cheeks. On their heads, they are now wearing garlands of sea stones that they bought from the market. The flowers in these wreaths are as white as jade, and they are said to have been harvested from the bottom reef in the depths of the ocean, and are called "Snow Kisses", which are extremely valuable. When Qiong Wei Xueyi happily wore the gift of the hall master, the cloud roads that accompanied the dragon on the horizon had gradually dissipated. The dragon horse silver horse brought by Lingyi has been hidden in a cloud and temporarily drifted away, and the moonlight as white as silver poured down again and again, coating the green hair of the girls with a layer of shining silver powder.
Looking at the happy and delicate people in front of him, Xingyan couldn't help but think of the girl in the distance: "What is Ju Ying doing at this time?
"Juying...... Are you looking up at the same moon as I am now?"
Looking at the full moon in the blue sky at night, Xingyan couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Just when he was a little distracted, the little Qiong Wei jumped over, tired of getting tired of him, and told him the interesting story he saw when he went to the Dragon Palace in the South China Sea. Listening to Qiong Wei's begging, he is naturally responsible as an elder brother. Quickly withdrew his gaze from the bright moon of the round of lovesickness, and Xingyan hugged his little sister on his lap after a two-day absence, and talked to her seriously about what he had seen and heard in the Dragon Palace in the past two days.
When she said that she had inadvertently walked into the misty blue lake valley and saw the sacred tree with flowers like jade, the little girl in her arms couldn't help but raise her little face, and felt a little sorry for him: "Brother, you can pick some jade flowers and come back, so that I can weave my own garlands with Sister Xue Yi, so that my brother can save money on my brother!-Brother, are those flowers really like jade?
"This ......"
Hearing Qiong Wei's question, Xingyan scratched his head, and said a little embarrassedly: "I don't know; ”
Hearing him say this, Ling Yi'er, who had been listening beside him, couldn't help but interject and half-truthfully and said, "I also forgot to come forward to look - Sister Qiong Wei, your brother is stupid!"
"Brother...... Stupid?"
"That's not right!"
Hearing Lingyi's words, Qiong Wei jumped down from Xingyan's lap, stood on the ground and swayed, and said seriously: "Sister Longnu, my brother forgot to look at the flowers, there must be a very important reason!"
“......”
Seeing that Xiao Qiong Wei was defending her brother so seriously, Ling Yi'er was a little surprised, and glanced at the slightly embarrassed young man, the dragon princess covered her mouth and quipped: "Little sister Qiong Wei, you don't know, your brother, at that time, the two eyes only looked at the girl under the tree, how can you remember to go to inspect what flowers!"
After listening to Lingyi's jokes, Qiong Wei immediately clapped her hands and shouted: "Yes, yes, that's the reason!"
"I knew my brother must have an important reason!"
- When she was happy, little Qiongwei forgot to ask about the girl under the tree.
After a while, in the small courtyard that had calmed down, the little girl who began to concentrate on enjoying melons and fruits suddenly said thoughtlessly: "Actually, I know that the tree must be a jade flower, and it will also bear jade fruit in the future." Because—"
After burying his head and nibbling on two more mouthfuls of watermelon, Qiong Wei said vaguely: "Because Qiong Wei often dreams that there are many trees on the mountain, and they are all beautiful stones like my brother Yupei, and they can't be eaten." ”
After speaking, she ignored the juice flowing from the corner of her mouth, lowered her head again and concentrated on nibbling on the watermelon.
Regarding Qiong Wei's innocent words, a few people naturally don't really take it to heart.
After chatting for a while, the melons and fruits on this table were gradually eaten. Although it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, this place is still in the south, and the wind in the courtyard is not smooth, so everyone feels a little hot. After Xue Yi and Lingyi helped clean up the things for the moon viewing, Qiong Wei suggested that everyone could go to the roof to enjoy the cool together. Although this proposal was somewhat undignified, these young men and women did not care about any red tape, so the outrageous proposal was approved at once. So there was a cloud of smoke in the courtyard of the inn, and after a while, Qiong Wei and the others were already sitting on the roof of the house.
By the time they reached the roof and sat down, it was nearly midnight. The breeze blows in gusts, and the moon is as cool as water in the middle of the night. At this moment, the moon had disappeared behind the clouds, and the stars that had been dimmed by the moonlight began to twinkle again in the deep blue night sky. The Milky Way, which runs between east and west, is also showing its clear face at this moment, and it is clearly visible overhead. Under the reflection of the starry sky, when Xiao Qiongwei crossed her fingers to count the stars in the sky, Xingyan told the girl the folk anecdotes she knew while taking advantage of the shade.
When it was said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl were separated by the Queen Mother on the left and right of the Milky Way and could only meet once a year by the Magpie Bridge, the silent dragon girl who had not spoken for a long time opened her mouth to add, saying that as far as she knew, the Queen Mother of the Immortals, who was criticized by everyone in this story, was only wronged by the people of the mortal world and became the scapegoat of her daughter. In fact, the culprit of the separation between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl should be the arrogant, domineering, moody and hateful princess of the Queen Mother of the West. Although the specific reason is not clear, when I was a child, I listened to my grandfather Yun Zhongjun tell stories, and it seemed that things should be like this.
Hearing Lingyi say this, the little girl who was deeply attracted by the story seemed to empathize, and suddenly became angry, pouting and humming: "That ignorant princess is really not good!
"The queen mother and aunt too, the little girl is not well-behaved and doesn't know how to take care of it - it's much worse than my brother Xingyan!"
...... Just as the little girl had just finished saying this heartfelt righteous word, the brilliant stars in the night sky above their heads suddenly flickered together, and when the light was extinguished, it was as if God blinked his eyes!
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the next day, when the princess returned to the dragon palace at the bottom of Poyang Lake, she saw her mother's personal maid waiting in her dormitory.