burning lamp

It was raining at night, and it was cold outside, but it was warm inside.Xie Fengshu lay on the bed, watching Jiang Chen use a thin bamboo branch to pick out the wick of the long lamp on the table.

The candle flame, which was almost soaked in kerosene, flickered on and off, and was picked up by Jiang Chen, and it ignited again.Jiang Chen put down the bamboo branch in his hand, turned his head and met Xie Fengshu's eyes on the bed.

Xie Fengshu had already taken off his outer robe, and was wearing a white inner garment. His whole body was wrapped in the quilt, with only one face upturned.Jiang Chen said, "Why aren't you sleeping?"

Xie Fengshu replied naturally: "Waiting for you."

He stretched out his hand and patted the half of the bed that he had vacated next to him, and said as if asking for credit: "Come quickly."

He spoke confidently, as if he had no other meaning, but when Jiang Chen got into bed, Xie Fengshu immediately rolled into the other's arms, with his forehead pressed against Jiang Chen's chest, and he laughed sullenly.

Through the thin underwear, Jiang Chen could feel the warmth from Xie Fengshu's forehead.He didn't back away, just said: "Go to sleep."

Xie Fengshu slept all afternoon, but he couldn't fall asleep at this time. He raised his head and suddenly remembered something, and asked, "That succubus—"

Jiang Chen was silent for a while, but told the other party directly: "I killed her."

Xie Fengshu was not afraid, but just looked at Jiang Chen with some concern: "Ah, Master said that monks should not do evil or kill. Will you be punished?"

"No, not all monks don't kill." Jiang Chen replied, "It's not that only killing is evil."

Xie Fengshu asked: "What else?"

"He said it was good, so under the banner of goodness, he blamed others for his faults, and felt pity for himself."

After Jiang Chen finished speaking, he lowered his head to look at the dazed Xie Fengshu, so he smiled, stopped talking, and said, "Go to sleep."

He rarely smiled, and when he smiled, there seemed to be a little moonlight in his eyes.Xie Fengshu immediately forgot what Jiang Chen said just now, and could only see the other party's thin lips with a little blood color, just a few inches above his forehead, and there was a small wound on the lip, which was just in the Buddhist hall. Knocked by Xie Fengshu.

Xie Fengshu moved closer, stuck out a tip of his tongue and licked it.

Jiang Chen looked down at him, and said softly, "What are you doing?"

They were too close, breathing intertwined when talking, Xie Fengshu moved closer and kissed those two thin lips.

His hands were on Jiang Chen's waist, hot as a ball of fire, his eyes were closed, his eyelashes were fluttering, Jiang Chen let him kiss, hugged Xie Fengshu's back and intertwined with his lips and teeth.After an unknown amount of time, Xie Fengshu finally backed away a little bit unbearably, gasping for breath under the quilt, the palms of the hands that were pulling Jiang Chen's underwear were full of sweat, making the clothes damp and wrinkled.

His clothes were a little unraveled, revealing an inch of his collarbone. Jiang Chen slowly pulled them back up for him. Seeing Xie Fengshu looking at him without blinking, Jiang Chen lowered his head and kissed his forehead, his voice slightly hoarse. : "Quick sleep."

Xie Fengshu nestled in Jiang Chen's arms obediently, sticking to his heart like a small animal, he heard Jiang Chen's heartbeat coming, one after another, calm and powerful.Xie Fengshu closed his eyes, and he was panting a little when he spoke: "I heard your heartbeat."

Jiang Chen wiped off the sweat on his forehead, and replied, "It belongs to you."

Half of what he said was the tender love between the two now, and the other half was the heart-breaking vow back then. Xie Fengshu didn't understand, so he just smiled contentedly twice, and fell asleep lying on the other's chest.

In the middle of the night, when everything was silent, Jiang Chen suddenly opened his eyes and sat up.

The lights in the room were still burning, and the lights were dim. Jiang Chen held Xie Fengshu's hand that was exposed outside the quilt, and looked out the window expressionlessly.

The rain outside hadn't stopped yet. Hundreds of miles away, the entrance of the cave where Jiang Chen killed the succubus was washed away by the rain and the ground was wet and soft. A wisp of black fog-like demonic energy lingered several times around the place where the succubus died. And quickly dispersed.

The devilish energy was so faint that it could be ignored, and it dissipated too quickly, but Jiang Chen couldn't feel it for a moment, he frowned slightly, and looked down at Xie Fengshu.The other party was sleeping soundly against his chest, breathing evenly and long.

Jiang Chen looked at it for a moment, then lowered his head and touched Xie Fengshu's eyelashes with the corner of his lips.

With the beginning of the night, Xie Fengshu began to act unscrupulously, almost treating Jiang Chen's place as his other home.In the words of Xiaoxi: "I don't know what to hang out with a monk all day."

Xie Fengshu didn't say anything, but retorted indignantly in his heart: What do you know, it's much more interesting.

As time went on, Xie Fengshu became more and more courageous, and the original regulations in the teacher's school that they were not allowed to spend the night outside, not allowed to run far, and not allowed to sneak down the mountain became empty words.Xie Fengshu was favored by his teacher, and met Jiangchen again, and ran wild all over the place, running around by himself was not counted, so he insisted on bringing Jiangchen with him.Sometimes I slip into the deep forest, or turn around the opposite mountain, and sometimes I run to the world.

Once down the mountain, Xie Fengshu must go to the restaurant and teahouse to listen to books. Talented scholars and beautiful women, knight-errants, ghosts and strange stories...everyone will be rejected, and as soon as he sits on the stool in the teahouse with the snacks he just bought in his hand, he must When it was dark, the storyteller slapped the gavel, said, "Let's listen to the next chapter to break it down", closed the stall and closed the door.

Then Xie Fengshu was satisfied, and he and Jiang Chen returned to Xumi by night.

It was already dark when we went back, and the street was pitch black, so Xie Fengshu could safely and boldly hold Jiang Chen's hand and walk back slowly.

They don't go there much, they only go down the mountain once in two or three months, but they are too eye-catching. After a long time, people who often go to drink tea also know that every few months there will be a monk in white and a boy in red. Come to listen to the book, just sit in the teahouse for an afternoon.

The night was sparse and the stars were dim, and it seemed that there were only the two of them left in the world.Xie Fengshu held Jiang Chen's hand, and suddenly remembered that the first time he went down the mountain with the other party, the other party's eyes were cold, and he casually told the past and present of the two mortals.

Xie Fengshu had never asked Jiang Chen where he came from before, but now he thought of it by accident, and suddenly became curious, so he turned his head and looked at the other party carefully.

Jiang Chen noticed his gaze, turned his head and said, "What's wrong?"

Xie Fengshu hesitated for a moment, but still said truthfully: "It's been so long, I still don't know where you came from."

Jiang Chen's eyes were soft, and he replied, "From Brahma."

"Brahma, is it heaven?"

"Hmm." Jiang Chen replied patiently as if he was facing a child who didn't know much about the world, "There are nine levels in the fairy world, three days in the Buddhist school, and the Brahma Heaven is at the highest."

Xie Fengshu felt that Jiang Chen was very powerful when he heard it, but he was not very happy to see Jiang Chen's expression was calm.

Xie Fengshu thought: Master said that it is extremely cold in high places, so it is probably very cold in such a high sky.

So he didn't ask any more, rolled his eyes, and said, "Today's book is only half finished, shall we listen to it tomorrow?"

Jiang Chen only remembered telling a story about a gifted man and a beautiful woman today, so he asked, "Does it sound good?"

"It sounds good, but I can't understand it." Xie Fengshu said: "In today's story, there is a sentence 'Low curtain and pillow, brocade tent and spring night', do you know what it means?"

Jiang Chen paused, squeezed Xie Fengshu's hand tightly, and said in a tone of warning: "Xie Fengshu."

Xie Fengshu laughed out loud.

He is so old, how could he really not understand.The more Xie Fengshu laughed, the softer his voice became, and finally he stopped slowly under Jiang Chen's gaze.

He blushed a little, held Jiang Chen's hand, lowered his voice as if he was doing something bad, and whispered: "I won't be going back to the Mirror Stage tonight, okay?"

When Xie Fengshu acted like a baby, his voice was sticky and soft, as if he had a pine nut in his mouth.He has grown a lot taller, like a newborn Xiuzhu in the temple in early spring, with moist and bright eyes.

Jiang Chen didn't answer, but in the end he didn't let go of Xie Fengshu's hand either.

After many years, the old man who listened to the book changed, and the kid beside him who was begging for rewards with square pans grew into a teenager and took over the position of the storyteller, and the two stopped going.

It's not because they didn't speak well, it's just that after many years, the two of them are still like this, and there will always be people who will be suspicious.

Of course, in addition to these wild time, Xie Fengshu had more time to spend on cultivation.

In the past, when he practiced, he was lazy and slippery, but now he is extremely diligent and assiduous. He wished he could wake up the next morning and find that he had formed a pill.

Although Lu Qiwu said many times that one should not rush for success in practice, but Xie Fengshu really wanted to form an alchemy as soon as possible. He wanted to grow into a great demon as soon as possible, and then said to Lu Qiwu and the others confidently, "I'm going to get married."

Some monsters practice for the sake of ascending to immortality, and some for calling the wind and rain, probably Xie Fengshu is the first monster in the world who practiced assiduously in order to get married as soon as possible.

After the daily homework is over, as long as Xie Fengshu is not too tired to get up, he will definitely take a trip to the back mountain.Sometimes it is still early, and the temple gate will not be closed, half open and half closed, waiting for Xie Fengshu to push the door directly to enter; sometimes it is late, the sky is dark and the clouds are low, and there will be a lantern in front of the temple, swaying in the mountain wind , illuminating the night.

Sometimes when Xie Fengshu came back from Jiangchen early in the morning, he was unlucky to meet Lu Qiwu who got up early and strolled in the yard, and he would see him looking at him with a melancholy face, stroking his beard and sighing: "The child is old, always I can't keep it."

It made Xie Fengshu terrified every time, he always felt that Lu Qiwu saw something, but every time Lu Qiwu only finished this sentence, he would wave his hands impatiently and let his little apprentice go off to practice.

Sui Ling and Xiao Xi were not so easy to deal with. The first few years were fine, but later they became suspicious and asked Xie Fengshu why he went to Jiang Chen all day long.

After all, at the beginning they only thought that Mount Sumeru was inaccessible, Xie Fengshu managed to get a friend, and they should be close.But for many years in a row, he still enjoys it so much that he doesn't even return home, so it can't be justified.

Xie Fengshu pretended to be deaf and dumb at the beginning, but one day he was finally blocked in the room by the two of them.

Sui Ling was dressed in a smoky dress, with slightly frowned eyebrows, he touched Xie Fengshu's forehead with his slender fingers: "Run away again, the stool is not warm yet, where do you want to go?"

Now that she is more and more beautiful, and her temper is a bit good, Xie Fengshu held his forehead and groaned: "No way, I have obviously stayed at home for two days."

"Yeah, if you stay for a day or two, and run for a day or two, you won't be too tired." Xiaoxi leaned against the door with her arms folded, squinting at Xie Fengshu, "If I hadn't seen the monk in Houshan , I thought it was a monster with a charming mind."

Xie Fengshu didn't dare to argue, he just asked, "What do you mean?"

Sui Ling sighed, and looked at Xie Fengshu's earnest words: "Xiao Shu, you must be sincere and measured when getting along with others, and you must not give your sincerity lightly."

"...I know." Xie Fengshu replied seriously, "But Jiang Chen is different."

Xiaoxi snorted coldly: "What's the difference?"

Xie Fengshu blushed, and said stiffly: "Anyway, it's different, you will know in the future."

As soon as these words came out, Sui Ling and Xiao Xi looked at each other with strange expressions, but they didn't say anything more.

After finally getting past it, I felt extremely melancholy on the way to find Jiangchen—when will I be able to form a pill.

Spring breeze and winter snow, flowers and plants withered and flourishing, 60 years in the world, in the flick of a finger.

The Wan Guchun in front of the Jiangchen Temple had already shed a crop, and started to bloom new flowers. When Xie Fengshu was bored, he counted them, and it was still 710.He said to Jiang Chen with some disgust: "This tree is too lazy, and I don't want to bloom any more."

With a faint smile in Jiang Chen's eyes, he let him talk nonsense.

At that time, Xie Fengshu and Xiaoxi were already over 280 years old, and their childishness had faded away, and they were already considered mature monsters.Sui Ling had cultivated a golden elixir a long time ago, and Xiaoxi also formed a elixir suddenly one day.

Xie Fengshu was the only monster left in the entire sect that hadn't formed alchemy.

Lu Qiwu, Sui Ling and Xie Xi all knew that Xie Fengshu wanted to cultivate the golden elixir, so no one said much, and Xie Fengshu discovered it by himself in the end.

Jiang Chen waited for a long time in the court that day, but Xie Fengshu still didn't come, so he got up and went out, only to find Xie Fengshu sitting under Wan Guchun, with his head down, not knowing what he was doing.

Xie Fengshu raised his head when he heard footsteps, and finally smiled when he saw Jiang Chen in front of him, but he was not very happy.

Jiang Chen looked at him, and also sat under the tree, Xie Fengshu leaned on Jiang Chen's lap.

Jiang Chen asked: "What's wrong?"

After a while, Xie Fengshu's sullen voice came over.

"Today, Xiaoxi also formed a pill."

"Senior Sister formed the alchemy 50 years ago, not to mention the master, the days of forming alchemy are longer than my age, now Xiaoxi has also formed alchemy and only me is left."

Jiang Chen didn't speak, Xie Fengshu turned over in frustration, turned his back to the sky and said, "Maybe I'm stupid."

Jiang Chen was silent, and reached out to touch Xie Fengshu's head. Xie Fengshu looked up and saw his eyes, and felt that under the flowers, the other party seemed to be more sad than himself.

So he was a little embarrassed again, and quickly changed his words: "I'm talking nonsense, maybe I haven't cultivated enough, maybe I can form alchemy in a few years."

He was half joking and half serious: "I still want to cultivate the golden core, and then marry you as husband and wife."

Jiang Chen asked in a low voice: "Aren't we husband and wife now?"

Xie Fengshu didn't know what to think of, and his face immediately blushed: "It counts—but we are like a boudoir girl and a lover who meet secretly."

... Xie Fengshu has been running down the mountain for decades, going to the world to listen to books and watch operas, and he knows all the messy excerpts like the back of his hand.

Jiang Chen smiled, patted Xie Fengshu, and signaled him to get up.

After Xie Fengshu sat down, Jiang Chen looked at him and spoke softly.

"Thank you Fengshu, I want to go back."

Xie Fengshu immediately became nervous, grabbed Jiang Chen's hand, and asked with wide eyes, "Where are you going?"

Jiang Chen held him instead, and replied: "I told you, I used to live in the sky, and there are many people besides me, waiting for me to go back."

His tone was as calm as water, and said: "This time I will go back and tell them that I will stay in Sumeru and never return to Brahma Heaven."

Xie Fengshu lost most of his heart, looked at Jiang Chen and laughed, he didn't know what the "other people in the sky" Jiang Chen said was like, worried that Jiang Chen would upset them, so he said very generously: "Don't say that , In fact, you can go and see them in the future, or I will go with you in the future."

It's like going back to your mother's house.

Jiang Chen smiled and said: "The sky is a cold and heartless place, don't go there."

Xie Fengshu was startled: "Is it not as good as Mount Sumeru?"

Jiang Chen replied, "Not as good as you."

Xie Fengshu cocked his tail in his heart, and smiled smugly: "Then I won't go."

He raised his head, with an extremely serious expression on his face: "You go, I will wait for you at Mount Sumeru, maybe I will have the golden elixir when you come back."

Jiang Chen looked at Xie Fengshu, and slowly said: "Yes. When I come back, you will have the golden elixir."

Xie Fengshu laughed loudly, his eyes were still shining when he stopped laughing, he looked at Jiang Chen, and said again: "Then come back quickly."

Jiang Chen always remembered Xie Fengshu's appearance that night.

In the night, the lanterns in front of the temple illuminated a corner of the world, illuminating Xie Fengshu's blood-colored robes, with eternal spring petals falling on his shoulders and skirts, Xie Fengshu didn't bother to brush them, and just turned his head to look at himself.He has faded away from his youthful innocence, but his face is still full of vigor, untainted by the dust of the world.

They still don't know how the world will be overthrown in the future, life and death will be ups and downs, and what a tragic situation between heaven and earth will be.

But Jiang Chen always remembered Xie Fengshu's appearance at this time, his eyes were as bright as a bright moon, better than thousands of ever-burning lamps that passed through the world.

Passing him here for 700 years, there is a vast expanse and a boundless sea of ​​suffering.

The author has something to say: It's time to start laying knives! ! !