[Comprehensive] Those years when I memorized the Analects of Confucius

Kongcheng at night is another kind of scenery.

Exquisite paper-cuts can be seen everywhere, candlelight shadow puppetry behind the white curtain, children playing in weird and cute face-changing masks, running forward together with the dangling lotus lanterns in the clear canal.When you are lucky, you can still see the Kongming lanterns rising in the sky, flying to the vague sky with people's prayers and blessings.

If it happens to coincide with a traditional festival, it will be even more lively.

Kong Yun remembered that when Kongcheng was not yet called Kongcheng, during the Qiqiao Festival that year, the entire streets and alleys were filled with gluey young couples. The Milky Way converges into a magpie bridge connecting heaven and earth.

According to the legend of Kongcheng, lovers who meet on the magpie bridge will be together forever.

At that time, he was still young, but he couldn't stand the children's nature of joining in the fun, and secretly followed the mighty crowd to climb up the Magpie Bridge.But Magpie Bridge is the holy bridge in the Milky Way after all, and when Kong Ci finally found his baby brother, the six-year-old Kong Yun was frightened by the abyss-like gully beneath his feet and burst into tears.

Picking up his crying younger brother, Kong Ci was both angry and funny, deliberately scaring him and saying, don't you know that climbing the magpie bridge alone is doomed to be lonely for a lifetime?

At that time, Kong Yun didn't know when Zhu Gusheng was born, but he instinctively knew that what his elder brother said was not a good word, so he cried even more fiercely.

In order to divert the little guy's attention, Kong Ci had no choice but to tell him a story.

Speaking of the three holy places for lovers, we will talk about the Magpie Bridge in Kongcheng, the heavy snow in Buzhou Mountain and the return market where thousands of waters converge.In the end, he changed his words to comfort him, and said solemnly that it's okay, this time I will accompany you to the Magpie Bridge, and in the future, if you have someone you like, bring it to me for a look, as long as I agree, you won't be born alone.

It was like a dream.

In fact, if you count the time thousands of years ago, he has not returned to this city for a full 15 years.

The city of Kong at night was still lively, but no one glanced at the steps, as if it was divided into two worlds by some invisible things. Kong Yun pulled Draco to sit on the other side of the steps. Come down and call out big brother.

Before the brain could fully react, Draco also subconsciously called out brother.

The young man raised his eyes and glanced at him, that look was not friendly, but with an undisguised sense of scrutiny, he only glanced at it, then looked away, ignored Draco, just sighed, and said to Kong Yun "Ayun, did you sneak out again without telling the family?"

Draco's heart moved slightly, but Kong Yun blinked his eyes, and said without blushing, "No, the second brother only knows that I'm out."

The young man was annoyed: "I think Ayan knows that you sneaked out, and is looking for you now, right?"

Kong Yun coughed lightly and stopped talking.

Then the forehead was hit.

"Ayun, how many times have I told you," Kong Ciyu persuaded him earnestly: "Ayan is busy on weekdays, don't always make trouble and make him angry, do you hear me?"

"Troublemaker" puffed up his cheeks, and retorted a little unconvinced: "I don't always mess around, if you don't believe me, you can ask Draco!"

Draco hesitated, wondering if he should say something.

Not to mention that the real age of the two of them has already far exceeded the age of the body. A few years ago, when Kong Yun first arrived at Hogwarts, he had never seen Kong Yun's mischievous side-the only time he played a prank was because of The other party also exported provocation.

From the day he met Kong Yun, the other party has never had anything to do with "troublemaking". "Other people's children" who cause trouble to others.

... But why did Kong Ci say again, telling Ah Yun not to trouble Kong Yan?

While he was hesitating, Kong Ci obviously didn't respond to his interest, directly ignoring the second half of Kong Yun's sentence, and asked inexplicably, "Huh?"

Kong Yun had no choice but to say: "I see, I will go back tomorrow."

The young man was satisfied at this point: "Okay," he leaned back slightly, changed his legs into a cross-legged position, and said in a not-so-friendly tone when he was ready for a long talk: "Now you can explain , What is the relationship between you and the guy next to you?"

The easiest answer is friends, but if you want to be honest, it's obviously a long story.

Fortunately, Kong Yun didn't take too much trouble.

He bowed his head and thought for a while, and then began to talk about all kinds of things in these years, just like how he told him stories back then, from leaving home to study in a foreign country, to Hogwarts, and those things that he hadn't had time to tell Kong Yan. Come out of the tray, a wonderful time and space journey...

When Kong Yun mentioned these things, he was actually a little nervous. If the elder brother asked him why he didn't come back to Kongcheng until now, how would he explain it?

But Kong Ci didn't seem to notice this.

He just kept sitting cross-legged, listening intently to Kong Yun talking about the years he missed, and occasionally asking a few words.When he talked about his bet with the professor in that Muggle village, Kong Ci pressed his head and sighed: "Ah Yun has grown up too."

Somewhat disappointed.

Probably in order to make Kong Ci have a good impression of Draco, Kong Yun also focused on talking about how they were at Hogwarts thousands of years ago, when the other party cared about his feelings and did not hesitate to confront Salazar...

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Draco always felt that the young man looked at him even more unkindly.

They chatted like this for a long time, until the lanterns along the street gradually dimmed, leaving only three or two Kongming lanterns, rising higher and higher in the sky.

"...After that, we will come back." Kong Yun said: "According to the original agreement, I should go home with my second brother, but..."

"But I didn't want to separate from Ayun so quickly, so I urged him to sneak out with me." Draco said, pretending not to notice Kong Yun's signal gaze, with a calm expression: "It's my fault, no It's about Ayun."

Strictly speaking, this is actually not wrong, but...

Kong Yun pursed his lips, wanting to say something, but Kong Ci didn't give him a chance to speak: "Ayun, you haven't been to Kongcheng for a long time," he looked down, his eyes like a mirror: "Would you like to go?" Take a walk around?"

He said he was going for a walk, as if he had something to do and wanted to talk to Draco alone.

Kong Yun was hesitant, but Draco, who had been so nervous halfway through, calmed down now: "It doesn't matter, you go to the neighborhood first, and it's the same when we go shopping together later. "

The parties agreed, so Kong Yun had no choice but to leave without worrying.

So there were only two strangers left on the steps who had only met the day before.

Kong Ci raised his head and stared intently at the bright galaxy in the sky. For a moment, Draco almost thought that the other party was deliberately leaving him alone, or when he was about to make a long speech—

"You speak Chinese well."

Draco was slightly taken aback.

But Kong Ci said again: "Ayun is the youngest in our family." It sounded out of context, "Mother has always doted on him, and although his father looks serious, in fact he is the most soft-hearted towards Ayun. , got him used to being lawless."

"No," Draco was about to explain subconsciously, he said, "Ayun he..." While speaking, his gaze skipped the ground, the moonlight was as bright as water, but only his own shadow was reflected on the ground.

It was at this time that Draco suddenly remembered that, in fact, just as they were about to go ashore, he saw Kong Ci's figure in the "stream of time".

The bits and pieces of the details suddenly came together, like a jigsaw puzzle gradually becoming its original shape.

What is it that makes a child who acts recklessly and lawlessly, and grows up under thousands of pampering and pampering, become a careful, sensible, smooth and mature little adult?

For Draco, the answer was death, fear, mother's tears and father's powerlessness.

So what about Kong Yun?

"I know," Kong Ci said, "thank you."

In the eyes of pampering parents, growth may always be a delicate word: even if they clearly understand the necessity of loss for growth, they also hope that all painful lessons will never happen, and that children will always be unrestrained, The look of being proud and at ease.

……

Draco opened his eyes.

The streets of Kongcheng are still bustling, the lanterns on the eaves emit a warm light, the children gather around the curtain, watching the shadow puppet show lively, the cool wind passes by the empty steps, leaving no footprints, even Kong Yun, who was originally with him, disappeared at this moment.

The only thing that can prove that everything I see is not an illusion is...

He bowed his head.

Facing the boundless night and the warm light, a small and delicate paper crane lay quietly in his palm.