Between seas

Wei Zi blew on the butterfly that landed on her body, but saw the butterfly flapped its wings and flew into the depths of the flowers in a blink of an eye.She looked a little nervous, her hands were still holding the small fish tank tightly, her eyes fell on Shen Boru, her face was full of puzzlement: "Why does the god have time to come to Luoyang? Is there anything I can do for you?"

Shen Boru smiled: "There is indeed one thing, I came to borrow Luoshui stone from you."

"Luoshui Stone?" Wei Zi was taken aback, she pursed her lips, subconsciously stepped back a little: "I can't lend Luoshui Stone to the god now, I want to use it for a very important thing."

Jiang Yizhou took a few steps forward, fixed his eyes on her face, and lowered his voice: "What is it?"

Wei Zi seemed to have been stabbed hard by these soft words, his face turned ugly, he lowered his head and hugged the small fish tank tightly, without saying a word.Her hands trembled slightly, and the water in the small fish tank shook with this slight movement.

The little golden carp flicked its tail and swung the water dripping.It turned its head and swam to Wei Zi, watched her flick its fins, then spit a bubble at her, then quickly turned around and sank to the bottom of the fish tank.

Sanbao said: "Sister Wei Zi, what's the matter with you? If it's really difficult, we can help."

Hearing this, Wei Zi raised his head slightly, and looked at Shen Boru's position with empty eyes.Her lips moved, but she didn't make a sound, she just stood there in a daze, like a dead old tree.

The water in the small fish tank shook more and more violently.

Seeing that her complexion was extremely bad, Shen Boru couldn't help calling her: "Wei Zi?"

Wei Zi suddenly came back to his senses, with complicated expressions on his face, a little worried, a little panicked, but more of a bewilderment.With her purple long sleeves rolled up, she and her small fish tank turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared in front of several people as if fleeing.

By the Yishui River, the flowers are still blooming.

Ah Fei was surprised: "This... What is this way, without explaining anything, just walked away like this?" It looked at Shen Boru in a blink of an eye: "Shen Jun, do you gods do things like this so confusing? "

Jiang Yizhou reached out and patted Ah Fei's forehead: "Actually, it's not that this little fairy didn't tell us anything."

Sanbao scratched the back of his head: "Did she say it? I didn't hear anything."

Shen Boru glanced at Jiang Yizhou, smiled at him and said, "Wei Zi likes her fish very much."

"And then?" Sanbao was aroused by Shen Boru's words, but Shen Boru only spoke half of what she said. She was anxious, and she felt as if something was blocked in her throat, choking uncomfortably, and said: "This is the critical point, the god What are you still selling, can't you just say it directly?"

Jiang Yizhou: "Isn't Dragon Gate the place where carp transform into dragons? It's still when the fish leaps over the Dragon Gate, she cares so much about that fish, obviously she wants it to turn into a yellow dragon at this time."

Shen Boru took over the words: "This kind of thing like a carp turning into a dragon will not happen once in thousands of years. The little fish that Wei Zi raised is destined to fail the dragon's gate. I think she knows this too."

"so?"

Jiang Yizhou's eyes flickered with an unknown light, like the cold light of a sharp knife.He laughed and said, "So she wants to use Luoshui Stone's power to make her golden carp ascend to heaven and transform into a dragon."

Shen Boru said: "There are rules and regulations for everything in the world, but Wei Zi is cheating. If this matter is found out by the heavens, she will not let it go lightly. But she knows what she is doing, so she doesn't want to tell us anything. Afraid that we would see her thoughts, she ran away in a panic."

Sanbao frowned, and his tone became anxious: "But we still have to borrow Luoshui Stone from her. How can we find her if she runs away like this? God, what should we do next?"

Shen Boru thought about it seriously, and said with a smile, "Eat first."

Sambo: "Huh?"

At first she thought Shen Boru was joking, she hugged Ah Fei and followed behind him, unexpectedly she came to a small open-air noodle stall by the side of the road.

There are bright red peonies blooming around the noodle stall, and a pot is placed outside the store door, and the white air from the boiling water is scattered among the fragrant bushes together with the faint noodle fragrance.

In the upper right corner of the table of the small noodle stall, there is a palm-sized doll.The doll is carved out of stone with rough techniques, but it can be vaguely seen that she looks like an old woman with a cane in both hands.Kind eyebrows and kind eyes, full of kind smiles.

The owner of the stall was an old man in short brown clothes, and when he saw a visitor, he hurriedly got up to greet him.

Sanbao chose a clean place to sit down. She pointed to the doll on the table and asked curiously, "Boss, what is this?"

The old man explained: "This is the grandma of the stone man, who specializes in drawing marriage lines for people. There are many young girls in our local area who are waiting to worship, and promise a good marriage to her."

Jiang Yizhou casually picked up a "Grandma Stone Man", sized it up a few times, and said with a smile, "Is it true? The god who holds the red thread, I've only heard of Yuelao, not Grandma Stone Man. "

The old man: "The stone man's grandma is not a fairy. It is rumored that it was carved by the Peony Fairy herself."

Shen Boru: "What does it have to do with Peony?"

Speaking of this matter, the old man was clearly invigorated: "It all started after the peonies were demoted to Beimang, Luoyang many years ago. At that time, it was the middle of winter, and there was only a heavy snowfall in Mangshan Mountain, and the plum blossoms did not dare to bloom. , not to mention being burned by the flames, only some peonies with dead branches and leaves are left."

"She was thrown alone in the barren mountains of Beimang, with a thick layer of snow on the ground, and the weather was freezing, how could she survive?"

Sanbao's heart suddenly rose, and he unconsciously exerted force on Ah Fei's arms, pinching Ah Fei so that he cried out in pain.She leaned forward slightly and asked, "And then?"

"Then, Mudan met a woodcutter. The woodcutter took pity on her and took her home to take good care of her. That's how the scorched peony in Luoyang City came to be."

The old man said: "Peony Fairy has a nickname in the world, Wei Zi. She named the nameless woodcutter who saved her, Yao Huang."

"Just like those cliché stories about wits and beautiful women, Wei Zi and Yao Huang like each other. He knows that she is a fairy in the sky, and she also knows that he is just a mortal, so they are not suitable for each other, and they are together."

The old man chuckled: "Emotions come like a tide. It doesn't matter if you are a bandit scholar or a princess whore, you will always be able to see it for ten thousand years."

Jiang Yizhou liked this sentence very much. He carefully looked at the face of the stone man's grandmother in his hand, and said with a smile, "What happened later? What happened to the stone man's grandmother?"

The old man continued: "There are few people in the barren hills of Beimang. Both Yao Huang's parents died, and Wei Zi has no relatives in the world. On the day they got married, Wei Zi picked up a stone and carved it into the image of an old woman. Let it be a witness. This stone man is the stone man's grandma."

"Wei Zi is a fairy and Yao Huang is a human being. They have different life spans. One of them is destined to go first. So Wei Zi told the stone man's grandmother that he would stay with Yao Huang for a long time and stay in Luoyang to wait for Yao Huang's next life. Reunite with her in the next life."

Sanbao said: "It's uncertain what will happen after reincarnation, and besides the vast sea of ​​people, how can sister Wei Zi be sure that Yao Huang will come to Luoyang, how can she be sure that Yao Huang is this person?"

The old man: "Yao Huang also made a wish to the stone man's grandmother, hoping to meet Wei Zi in every life. Therefore, this stone man's grandmother has become a half-immortal who witnesses the marriage here. It is said that lovers make wishes to her, and wishes It can all come true."

He paused: "Hey -- some people always say that gods are indifferent to fame and wealth, have no desires and no desires, and have no feelings. The so-called ruthless gods have higher morals. But old man, I think, how can those gods in the sky have no feelings? ? If they are all cold and emotionless, how can they love this world and everything in this world?"

Jiang Yizhou's hand was hidden under the table, and he quietly held Shen Boru's cool fingertips.He looked at him, his eyes were like glass under the moonlight, and Ye Ye was shining brightly: "My old man is right, I think gods are sentient. Do you think so, Ah Chen?"

Jiang Yizhou's smile was like cinnabar dripping into a clear spring, Mingyan's color gradually blurred in his bright eyes, with an indescribably charming charm.

Shen Boru smelled the light fragrance of white lotus on Jiang Yizhou's body, his heart skipped a beat, and he felt the spring breeze in his bosom in a trance.He stared blankly at Jiang Yizhou, and remembered the scene of lotus blooming in the abyss of Guixu many years ago, then lowered his eyes and said "en" softly.

The corner of Jiang Yizhou's mouth raised slightly: "Old man, how do you sell this stone man grandma?"

The old man smiled: "Young master, is he interested? This is a good thing, I won't spoil the scenery and take any money. If you like it, just take it away."

He also told Jiang Yizhou: "Young master, if you want to make a wish, you have to wait until the moon comes out at night, put the stone man grandma under the moonlight, and bring your favorite person with you, then it will come true."

Jiang Yizhou was about to answer, but Shen Boru beside him responded: "I remember."

He looked serious, as if he was dealing with something extremely important.

"Jiang Yizhou couldn't help laughing, he shook his head, his tone seemed helpless, but there was a bit of joy that couldn't be concealed: "Ah Chen, you. "

Shen Boru blushed slightly, as if Jiang Yizhou had discovered something shameful.He turned his head away from looking at Jiang Yizhou, but the hand hidden under the table held Jiang Yizhou instead.

Jiang Yizhou smiled even more happily, he looked at Shen Boru, and carefully put away the stone-man grandma with crooked eyebrows and eyes.

Shen Boru sighed in his heart, he was still such a hopeless pustule.In this situation, Jiang Yizhou's claws should be thrown away, and he should not give him a good face, and should not let him push his nose on his face.

But, for some reason, Jiang Yizhou's hands seemed to be covered with the stickiest glue in the world, and he just couldn't get rid of them.

Whenever this happens, Shen Boru will hate himself for his soft temper.

Jiang Yizhou saw what Shen Boru was thinking, and whispered in his ear, "Shenjun, you are not a soft-tempered person, but..."

"Favorite."

The author has something to say:

This story is not in the same style as the previous two.

Among them, the folktales referred to include: the legend of the scorched bone peony, Wei Zi and Yao Huang (the stone man is a matchmaker), Yu Leaping over the Dragon Gate

The name of Luoyang Longmen is entirely because of the meaning of "Tianzi's Gate", and has nothing to do with Yuyue Longmen. Some changes have been made here.