All night

Xin Wan blinked her eyes, her black pupils like glass beads became more and more radiant under the snowy moon, and then said:

"My wine gourd——!!!"

Lu Changying laughed, seeing that he wrapped herself up like a cotton bag, reached into the quilt and touched his hand. The tentacles were still cold, and then lifted up to touch his forehead, but it was still a little hot.

If the body temperature does not drop but the hands are cold, it is an obvious sign that the illness is not well, and the expression on his face is: "Did you drink the medicine?"

Xin Wan said: "No, let me cool down the magic stick that came with me before drinking."

Lu Changying stretched out her long arms. Xin Wan was a little thin, and he could wrap his arms around his shoulders even with a quilt. He brought him back to the room, and stretched out his hand to try the medicine on the table. The bowl was indeed too cold, if not for the stove still burning in the room, a layer of ice might have formed.He sniffed it closer, smiled, and when he looked back, the cotton bag had already sat on the threshold.

"Let's drink." Lu Changying also sat on the threshold, "The magic stick you came with is a little tricky, and there is a taste of firethorn in it."

Seeing Xin Wan's ignorant face, he smiled and said, "Pyracantha grassland is good. Qingchi often suffers from headaches and fever when he is weak, but Qingchi is weak and afraid of cold. Although you are cold and have a fever, you have a false fire inside. The thorn grass has just been boiled, and the medicinal properties are too strong, so it is inevitable that you will not be nourished, and although it may not aggravate the condition, it may not be of any benefit."

"It'll be fine when it's cold, come and drink the medicine."

Xin Wan didn't answer, and leaned her head against the door frame. Lu Changying didn't take it seriously, and said, "You are very lucky, if you don't have such a magic stick by your side..."

Xin Wan interjected, "I wouldn't drink without a magic stick."

Lu Changying smiled and said, "Oh?"

Xin Wan glanced at him, her eyes were dark, but she understood everything clearly, and said in a low voice, "Your young master doesn't like me, and I wish I could die. The doctor he sent prescribed the medicine. , of course I won’t drink it.”

The smile on Lu Changying's face didn't fade at all, she took a sip by herself, and kissed her forcibly.Xin Wan couldn't refuse, the bitter and cold medicinal soup was fed straight in by warm lips and tongue, making him neither swallow nor spit it out.After Lu Changying took a sip, she licked his thin upper lip with the tip of her tongue, and said with a smile, "Young master will not drink, but I will drink?"

Xin Wan took the medicine bowl without a word, drank it dry in one gulp, and placed the fine porcelain bowl painted with fine colored glaze on the snow.

The big snowflakes finally stopped, and Xin Wan reached out to grab a handful of snow and said, "Don't you ask me why I'm sick?"

As he spoke, he didn't wait for Lu Changying to answer, and said to himself: "I had a nightmare last night."

"I dreamed that I was locked in a large airtight cabinet. It was dark everywhere, but I couldn't move my hands and feet. There was also a villain who wanted to submerge me in the water and suffocate me." He raised his hand and looked at the snow in his palm. Slowly turned into water, "It may be that the person in the dream always has some magical powers, and suddenly I was able to move, and I touched the bamboo tube used as a wine pot beside me."

Speaking of this, he smiled at Lu Changying: "Thank you for stealing my wine gourd, otherwise the wine gourd can't be used like a bamboo tube... I punctured the bottom of the bamboo tube, and pierced another one hard The top of the wooden cabinet, fortunately the river is not deep, so I leaned my lips against the edge of the bamboo tube and tried to breathe, not wanting to die inexplicably like this."

He looked into Lu Changying's eyes, and Lu Changying said, "And then?"

Xin Wan suddenly felt a little uninterested, so he forced an ending to the story: "...and then I woke up." He laughed at himself: "So I was just drinking by the window alone, and I drank alone in the middle of the night. Drunk and stupefied, suffering from the wind, stuffy nose, breathless, it must be because of this nightmare that I almost suffocated." He laughed out loud while talking, shook his head and said, "What a weird dream... ..."

He didn't know whether it was because the snow melted water was too cold or because he was uncomfortable, but the hand holding the snow trembled slightly, as if the cold was unbearable, he stood up slowly and said, "Fortunately, it was a dream, nothing happened... ...I also drank the medicine, and the illness will probably recover, Senior Brother Lu should go back."

Lu Changying took his hand suddenly, rubbing his cold fingers with her warm palm, and said after a moment of silence, "Such a beautiful night of snow and moonlight, don't be too disappointed. Before dawn, I will answer three questions for you. I have answered them before." Even if, I won't recognize him again in the future." He looked at him and said word by word, "But what I answer tonight will be the truth."

Xin Wan stared at him blankly, her lips parted slightly due to illness, and Lu Changying put a finger against his lips, and said, "If you think about it, ask again, just three."

Xin Wan nodded, and Lu Changying went back into the room to get some tea that was warming on the stove.There is still green tea in this icy world, which is extremely rare, but Xin Wan doesn't know how to appreciate it. She took a sip of the cow's drink and her body became warmer. She asked the first question:

"What's your relationship with Lu Qingchi?"

Lu Changying smiled and said, "I asked this at the beginning, are you jealous?"

Feeling jealous of your mother, Xin Wan cursed, "You just answer."

Lu Changying said: "I will live for Qingchi all my life. I will do whatever he wants me to do. I will kill him if he wants me to. I will give him whatever he wants." After a pause, he touched his heart , "Except here, I can give it."

He looked back at Xin Wan and saw that he was silent, obviously wanting to ask "why", but he was afraid of wasting the second question like this, so he kept his mouth shut.At the moment, he felt cute and ridiculous, and said, "It's okay to tell you more."

"Lu Qinglan is good at counting plum blossoms, you know that. Qingchi has been weak since she was a child, and the old patriarch was always worried that she would not be able to support her. Qinglan made a divination, saying that there will be a child born at a certain moment in a certain year and a certain month. A person who can protect Qingchi for a lifetime. That person is me." He said leisurely, "I'm not a superstitious person, but I just survived after receiving Qingchi's blood after I was seriously injured, and then found out that what I wanted and The perfect overlapping of Qingji's requirements, since this is the case, it is better to follow the instructions of the scriptures and see what the final result will be."

"From the moment they knew my date of birth, the people of the Lu family thought I was just an item held by Qing. Some even told me that the young master doesn't know who he is. Since you want to protect him for the rest of his life, you are naturally his. I Then I thought, this is not good, I can protect him, but I am not an object, I cannot even own myself as his.

The first time I saw Qingchi had just recovered from a serious injury, and he looked very embarrassed. Qingchi looked down on me and asked me what I could give him.I said that I can give you a lot, but you have to choose yourself, I can give you everything except myself, or I can give you nothing, just as a bed warmer for you. "

"Qingchi laughs very hard. He urinates like stars holding the moon since he was a child. How could he really lack a warm bed? The answer is self-evident." Lu Changying stroked Xin Wan's finger, "This is the end of the answer, next one."

Xin Wan looked at their overlapping palms, thought for a while, and said, "You and I first met... the day we first met, what were you looking for in Tianlan Book Pavilion?"

Lu Changying paused, as if he didn't expect him to remember this incident, and smiled slightly: "It's hard for you to worry about Bai Zhize's safety... Don't worry, I didn't plan to do anything against Bai Zhize that time. I just... I heard that the Yinghuo lotus seeds passed down from generation to generation by Bai Zhize are offered in Tianlan Book Pavilion."

Yinghuo lotus seeds, according to legend, can live and die, flesh and bones, and immortality after eating.

Xin Wan had naturally heard of such fetish names, but never heard of Bai Zhize holding them.

The moon was fading, and the east was slightly reddened. Lu Changying said leisurely: "Anyway, it's almost dawn, let me make a long story short. Qingchi almost died once when he was young, and a mysterious expert gave him a fire lotus. Therefore, when I was seriously injured and was about to die, I was able to survive by receiving his blood. But because of the bleeding on me that time, Qing Chi's vitality was greatly damaged. The doctor always said that he would not live forever, and Qing Chi still had a wish, so he must not accept anything Life is not forever, so I want to find another Yinghuolian."

Xin Wan sighed.Lu Changying said softly: "You don't have to worry, I didn't enter the Tianlan Book Pavilion, so naturally I didn't get the lotus seeds."

Xin Wan said: "I'm not worried, if you really have a way to get in, you won't be scratched all over your body by the little bastard." The two couldn't help laughing when they recalled the situation that night.Lu Changying said: "It's fine if you can't find Yinghuolian, but half of Qingchi's life is with me. He lives for a day, and whatever he wants to do, I will do it for him."

Xin Wan felt a pain in his heart, and suddenly understood why he would rather watch himself sink to the bottom of the water and almost suffocate to death, and then travel thousands of miles down the peak to rescue him. He couldn't bear to go against Lu Qingchi's intention.But thinking about Lu Qingchi's exquisite beauty, he couldn't help but regret in a low voice: "I see that his cultivation is quite deep between breathing and breathing, so I thought..."

Lu Changying said disapprovingly: "His talent is very good, but his talent can't compete with God's will. It may be that Lu Qinglan leaked too many secrets, and the retribution is on his close relatives." He bowed his head and thought for a while, then quickly put aside these things, and said without delay. , "The last question."

The cold moonlight shining on Xin Wan's face has disappeared, replaced by the early morning sunlight that seeped through from one side of his face to the other. Under the bright light, every fine detail is clearly visible, making his skin look more delicate like nephrite.Lu Changying waited for a long time, but heard him ask slowly:

"Have you ever liked me?"

Lu Changying still had a smile on her brows and eyes, but she didn't answer.

Xin Wan waited for him quietly. Lu Changying pointed to the east and said, "It's dawn."