[Scholar Who Walks the Night] You Zhichuan

After the first snowfall, the New Year's Eve will soon be here. Yue Zhao is a delicate girl full of rituals in life. She lighted a copper stove in the underground palace very fittingly - and then roasted sweet potatoes.

She took a branch and fiddled with the charred sweet potatoes in the charcoal fire, picked out one and peeled it off, revealing the yellow heart.She handed the sweet potato to Cui Huiling, and the cub happily took it.

Cui Huiling blew on the hot skin of the sweet potato, and took a bite carefully. The sweet and glutinous taste made the little cub squint with satisfaction.Yue Zhao also peeled one for himself, and ate happily with the little cub.

"Master Yuezhao, the New Year is coming, and the capital is very lively, do you want to go and see it?"

Cui Huiling took small bites of sweet potatoes, thinking of the recent bustling scene in the capital, and happily extended the invitation.

Mr. Ghost went to sleep during the day, so she can take up some of Mr. Yue Zhao's time.The little cub looked forward to it.

"It's almost Chinese New Year..."

Yue Zhao chewed on the sweet potato and blinked, feeling how time flies.It was rare for her not to sleep today, and she didn't know if she had had enough sleep, so she nodded and accepted the invitation.

She finished eating the sweet potatoes in two or three bites, and then said to the little cub, "Has Huiling finished eating? If you haven't finished eating, you can take the sweet potatoes with you and eat them as you go."

"Umm, I, I'm done eating!" Cui Huiling was very happy to see that Master Yuezhao, whom she liked, agreed to her invitation, and hurriedly ate the last bite of sweet potato, her cheeks were bulging.

Yue Zhao poked her face with a smile, grabbed her knee and picked up the cub with one hand, "Then shall we start now?"

"Ok!"

Cui Huiling put her arms around her neck, her eyes sparkling.

When Yue Zhao brought Cui Huiling to the capital, the streets were already very lively. On the occasion of the New Year's Eve, the vendors were bustling with business, making a good start for the coming year.

Before entering the city, Yue Zhao put on a cloak and a hood as usual. Fortunately, it is winter and people are covering her tightly, so her outfit is not too eye-catching.

The last time she walked on this street was more than 100 years ago. At that time, people’s faces were mostly full of helplessness in life, far from being full of vitality now. More than 100 years is really a long time for human beings. very long.Holding the cub with one hand, she slowly glanced over people's smiling faces, and suddenly felt a sense of peace in her heart.

Cui Huiling obediently sat on Yue Zhao's arm and looked around. She was young and came from a family, so she didn't have many opportunities to wander the streets during the New Year's Eve, so I asked Yue Zhao to come out this time.

At this time, the little cub had finally recovered a bit of the lively nature of human cubs, but she was still very caring. While looking around, she was worried that Yue Zhao would be too tired holding her, so she asked several times to go by herself.Yue Zhaofu was pleased with the cub's obedience, but still smiled and refused her request to come down.

The dark golden pupils of the woman in white were full of tenderness, she tapped Cui Huiling's forehead with her free hand, and said: "There are too many people here, children may get lost if they go by themselves, although I can find you , but it’s still very troublesome to get lost.” She looked at the little cub hesitantly, “Don’t worry about me getting tired, Huiling is very light, so I still need to eat more.”

She smiled, and even weighed Cui Huiling on her arm in a serious manner. The little cub fell into her arms unexpectedly, causing the woman to laugh out loud.Cui Huiling pursed her lips in embarrassment, raised the corners of her lips slightly, and replied softly: "Then you will be in trouble, my lord."

Yue Zhao patted Cui Huiling's head, "I took you out to play today, be happy."

Cui Huiling nodded.

Afterwards, the two visited the market. To be precise, Yue Zhao ate the special snacks of this country during the Chinese New Year one by one under the guidance of Cui Huiling.Of course, today's expenses are all sponsored by the little beauty.

When they were walking on the street, they heard passers-by say that they must eat rice cake soup every New Year's Day, which has the meaning of "eating a big bowl will make you grow one year".Yue Zhao then found a restaurant that was still attracting customers, and treated Cui Huiling to a bowl of rice cake soup.

Yue Zhao has never liked soft and glutinous food like rice cakes. She thought it was too sticky, so she only ordered a bowl for Cui Huiling.

The little cub was sitting beside her, eating rice cakes quietly with a spoon. She had a good posture when eating, sitting upright, holding the porcelain spoon and being careful not to make any noise with the porcelain bowl; When talking, he only replied a few words to Yue Zhao when he was talking, but he would also swallow the food before speaking.

Yue Zhao: This is the real lady, I can't learn it anyway.

Seemingly infected by the noisy atmosphere in front of her, she began to recall how she spent the New Year when she was in Shimen.

The New Year's Eve in Shimen is also very lively every year, and there are markets, lantern festivals and so on in the town below the mountain. Younger disciples often call their fellow disciples to go out in small groups. It is the most comfortable and leisurely time of the year.But the mountains are long, and it often takes two to three years or even longer for a cultivator to retreat at a time. The longest retreat like Yuezhao takes 100 years.Therefore, there are festivals every year, but it is not necessarily the same group of people who go down the mountain every time.

How did she get by in previous years?

Hmm... having drinks and watching fireworks with juniors and juniors, or wandering around and guessing lantern riddles at the Lantern Festival, other than that, I'm either retreating or going out to do missions.Compared with the New Year's Eve described by Cui Huiling, her life is boring and boring.

She held her chin and thought: watching the fireworks is probably the only thing that is interesting.

So she described fireworks to Cui Huiling and asked if there were any here. The little cub just finished eating a bowl of rice cake soup, then put down the porcelain spoon in his hand and thought carefully, and shook his head at her after a while.

"Hui Ling doesn't know what Mr. Yuezhao said. It should not exist, but there is a weapon called explosives, which is somewhat similar to the one you described."

Can it be different, these two things are essentially the same.

Yue Zhao feels that there are too few entertainment methods in this country, why not develop fireworks when we have all the explosives.

"Master Yue Zhao is looking for that 'firework'?" Cui Huiling looked at her with dark eyes.Yue Zhao nodded and told her that the fireworks are set off in his hometown to celebrate the New Year.The little cub let out a "wow", with a slightly envious tone, "That must be very interesting."

Yue Zhao smiled, and promised to show her if she had a chance in the future.She then sent the little cub home.When he arrived at Cui's mansion, Yue Zhao saw the little cub's father, Cui Zhezhong. He probably already knew her identity from the ghost, but he didn't know how the little beauty introduced himself.

Cui Zhezhong looked at her with contempt, Yue Zhao narrowed his eyes and felt displeased, but he didn't say anything after all.Instead of looking at the man standing next to her, she took out a blank yellow talisman, tapped it with her fingertips and swam slowly, and the red traces of spiritual power appeared on the talisman.Yue Zhao folded the talisman into a triangle and handed it to Cui Huiling.

"Peace Talisman."

The curse drawn by Yue Zhao was very effective, and he gave the little cub one to keep her safe.

Cui Huiling took it with both hands, hesitated for a while and asked: "Can I give Huiling another one?" Seemingly thinking that his behavior was too abrupt, the little cub hurriedly added: "It doesn't matter if Mr. Yuezhao doesn't want to!"

The way she hurriedly defended herself made Yue Zhao laugh, and the woman in white patted her head and asked, "Is Hui Ling going to give it to someone?"

The little cub nodded obediently: "I want to give it to my mother."

Yue Zhao glanced at Cui Zhezhong who was standing not far away, but didn't ask why the cub was only given to the mother and not to the father.She took out another spell painting and gave it to Cui Huiling.

After sending the cub home safely, Yue Zhao waved her goodbye and returned to the underground palace.On the way back, she saw a restaurant inviting customers, so she went in and picked up a jug of wine.

In winter, the days are very short, and it gets dark quickly, Yue Zhao almost returns to the underground palace in the dark.The dark night sky behind her was full of stars, she thought, tomorrow must be a fine day.

She walked briskly and kept thinking about the fireworks.

In her memory, whether it was when she lived in the world as a child, or when she was picked up back to the teacher's school later, there are always fireworks and firecrackers in the New Year's Eve.One year when she was in the world, a kind lady gave her a firework. Now that I think about it, it was just an ordinary small wooden stick with sporadic sparks on it when it was set off. Bought three.And it was such a simple thing that she remembered for hundreds of years. She should be very happy to remember that she was young at that time.

So in her mind, a New Year's Eve is incomplete without fireworks.

Yue Zhao thought about it and thought about it, and felt that he was not so durable □□ to make fireworks, but he could use spiritual power to simulate the scene of fireworks exploding, just gather and compress the spiritual power, and then at a certain moment The force group detonated... She walked into the underground palace while thinking, without giving a glance to the beauty who was looking at her first.

The ghost who had been waiting for her for a long time: "..."

When he woke up today, he found that the food reserve was not there. He thought she had gone out for a walk with Cui Huiling, but he didn't expect anyone to come back when it was almost dark.He couldn't go out to arrest people until it was dark, so he could only wait in the underground palace, so he became more and more irritable.When he was about to go out to find someone, Yue Zhao came back and didn't give him a look.

Ghost: I feel more angry.

Yue Zhao on the other end thought carefully about his plan and found that it was very feasible.She raised her head with some joy, only to realize that she had already walked back to the underground palace. She greeted the gloomy beauty with a smile, "Are you awake?"

Yue Zhao: Why does he look so angry? I don't seem to have messed with him?

Looking at this person's innocent face, Gui felt that it was impossible for him to pamper her like this. The grain reserve should look like a grain reserve, and he should just stay in the granary honestly and not be allowed to go anywhere.

Not knowing that the beauty suddenly had the idea of ​​imprisoning him because she left him to go out to play, Yue Zhao approached him very acquaintedly, and took out the altar of wine to have a drink with him.

With a flip of her palm, two small wine cups appeared out of thin air.She filled up the wine and passed one over.

The ghost's fingers were slowly clasped on the case, inexplicably wondering what was hidden in her storage bag.

"When I came back, I saw a store selling wine, so I took a jar, try it?"

Yue Zhao shook the wine cup and watched him drink with his chin up. The glow of the night pearl and the candlelight of the underground palace dimly reflected on his face, softening his cold face a bit.The ghost drank a cup of wine, his throat rolled, and Yue Zhao swallowed too.

Yue Zhao: Looking at a beauty under the lamp, the more you look at it, the more beautiful it is.The ancients never deceived me.

She drank her own too.

The jade wine cup holds the amber liquid, flowing slowly against the warm light, which looks extremely delicious.The alcohol is not strong, the first drink is clear, and there is a little sweetness on the tip of the tongue; after drinking the wine, the fragrance is mellow, and the sweetness becomes more obvious.

Yue Zhao licked his lips, feeling that the taste was very to her liking.Because she didn't know how the taste was here, this jar of wine was a sign she asked the boss to take, and she picked up the treasure without thinking about it once.

Yue Zhao has a good capacity for alcohol, and the alcohol is not strong, so it is not easy to get drunk.But Gui didn't know what was in his mind, and he repeatedly persuaded her to drink, and it was hard for her not to get drunk when a beauty poured her ecstasy soup.Not long after, Yue Zhao's eyes became a little hazy.

She suddenly grabbed the ghost's wrist, and excitedly pulled him outside. The ghost was confused and was about to ask something, but Yue Zhao held his face.

"Little beauty, I'll take you to watch the fireworks."

Her ending was raised, and her voice was much softer than usual. The mottled moonlight pouring down from the clouds reflected on her face, and there was even a faint light in those golden eyes.

The moonlight is too gentle.

Nuannuan's hand covered his face, and the ghost's heart suddenly softened. He thought a little badly, maybe it's been too long since he hasn't had a drink, so he feels drunk too.

Yue Zhaomi dazedly took the ghost's hand and led him to a high place.She carried out the exercise, raised her hand to gather the spiritual energy of the heavens and the earth, and compressed the spiritual energy into a ball with her palm. She repeated it several times and made several spiritual energy balls.

She blinked hard, seeing his soft voice, "Little beauty, don't blink."

She raised her hand and pointed towards the clusters of spiritual power one by one.Swipe your finger around, but in an instant, the spiritual power clusters exploded one after another where you passed, and the flames shone in the silent night sky, like a gorgeous firework.

She also tried her best to simulate the sound of fireworks exploding.

Yue Zhao exploded the group of spiritual power and created new ones at the same time, neither side was left behind.While she was busy, she wondered why she had a single fire spirit root, if she had three spirit roots and five spirit roots, then she would be able to create three-color and five-color fireworks for the little beauty.

She was a little frustrated, but she didn't let go of her hands.The group of spiritual powers kept exploding, and Yue Zhao quickly replenished them, and the crisp explosion sound kept ringing in the ears of the two of them.The orange-red fireworks exploded in mid-air, and the shattered spiritual power flowed down, and finally turned into tiny fragments and gradually annihilated.

The ghost was stunned, staring blankly at the feast, and the orange-red fireworks exploded and reflected in his eyes.He blinked and looked down at the woman beside him.

She was also looking at him, her cheeks were flushed, the light in her eyes flickered, and in those dark golden lakes, he saw extreme tenderness.

In the warmth and silence, someone's heart moved quietly.

It's been a while since I came out, and the cold wind blows through Yue Zhao, who has already woken up a lot.Recalling how stupid she was just now, she wished she could commit suicide in shame and indignation, she became so drunk after just a little wine, she was really beautiful and harmful.

She quietly glanced at the ghost who was still watching the fireworks, and let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he didn't realize that he was already awake.Yue Zhao felt a little fortunate.

However, when she lowered her head and exhaled, the ghost quickly glanced at her and bent the corners of her lips.

Yue Zhao looked at the ghost's face and felt that he should be very happy. Although beauty is harmful, she always wanted him to be happier.

She turned her hand and took out a red crystal bracelet.

This is the volcanic crystal left over from last time. She took it back and carefully polished it into 66 small crystals, all of the same size, round and warm to the touch.She twisted the red thread and strung it together, and sealed two formations inside.

Yue Zhao stroked the bracelet, and after a while, squeezed his wrist and put it on.

Sensing her movement, the ghost looked down.Yue Zhao smoothed Shun's hanging tassels, squeezed his bony hands, and said with a smile, "Happy New Year, and peace every year."

The group of spiritual power exploded in my ears, it was the sound of the New Year.

The author has something to say:

happy New Year!

The second watch will be late.