I was arched by the white moonlight

It was getting late, but the streets and roads in Qingyun Town were brightly lit, as if even the stars in the sky were not lit.

The vacant space outside the roadside is not idle either. There are various stalls and commodities. There are voices of hawkers selling goods, both male and female. The women gathered together and whispered shyly, it was really lively.

Li Ji wears a mask handed out at the entrance of the market, with sugar figurines in his left hand and peach cakes in his right, revealing his childish nature, but relying on the mask to cover him, Li Ji is not afraid.

The Qixi River lanterns on the road are almost all for marriage and children, Li Ji has no interest at all, but he ate all the delicious food to his full.In the desolate and uninhabited world of the devil, good food and drink are not his turn, and now it seems that his picky eater problem has recovered after this meal report.

Sticking out his tongue and licking the puppy-shaped sugar man under him, Li Ji looked around to see if there was any excitement.

Well, a group of women on the left are begging for cleverness...

Well, some people on the right are building incense bridges...

Um, front... front?

Li Ji saw a group of people gathered in front of him, and hurried over to join in the fun.

"Folks, the next lantern riddle - this character is extraordinary, only four strokes, no horizontal, no straight, no hook twist, the emperor will stand up when he sees it, and the sage will salute when he sees it. This, type one character!"

It turned out to be a lantern riddle.Li Ji pushed his way through the crowd and came forward.

Everyone was stumped at once, chattering and discussing, Li Ji rolled his eyes and said, "It's father!"

Seeing that someone had guessed it, the boss hurriedly looked over and saw Li Ji handing over the lantern in his hand: "Master, you have guessed right, come, your lantern for Qixi Festival, I wish you a happy marriage!"

Li Ji occupied both his left and right hands, so he said: "You see, I have both hands occupied, and I don't want to seek marriage. I don't want the lantern. You can come up with the next question."

The boss didn't force it, and then asked the next question: "Then...the next lantern riddle is - a family of eleven, type one word."

"Ji." Li Ji was the first to answer, licking the sugar figurine.

The boss was also shocked, glanced at Li Ji up and down, and said again: "Zhuge Liang of Nanyang, sit in the general's tent, line up in a eight trigram formation, and want to catch flying generals. Beat an animal."

"spider."

"Du Kangzhuang still talks about the emperor, and every time he recites Tang before pregnant with Li Tang, he hits a plant."

"Ditang Xuemeng."

"Talk about poetry. Make an idiom."

"Speak first."

"Until dusk, bit by bit. Write a poem."

"The sound of wind and rain at night."

…………

The two of you asked and answered, there was back and forth, and people around were applauding and cheering for the two of them, as if they couldn't get enough of it.

Seeing that Li Ji seemed to want to continue guessing, the boss had no choice but to admit defeat first, and said: "The young master is really talented and extremely smart, and the old man is willing to bow down. I still have a set of lantern riddles for my son to help me solve. If you can guess it , the old man is willing to give this most precious river lantern to the young master."

Not interested in lanterns, Li Ji was only interested in the difficult problem, so he nodded and said, "Please tell me."

"Missing the building, the moon is in the maze. Type a poem." The old man seemed to have aged a few years in an instant, and his tone was long and sad.

Li Ji was stunned for a moment, affected by the sadness on the old man's face, the taste of candy in his mouth seemed not so sweet.

"...Your Excellency seems to be a talented person who can write such lantern riddles." Li Ji said lightly.

The old man shook his head with a wry smile, and said: "Your son is now in his forties. If you have talents, you will have been admitted to the first prize, but it's just a feeling..."

"Hmm... I don't know about this, it seems that I am not destined for that He Deng." After Li Ji finished speaking, he turned and left.

Leaving the booth for guessing lantern riddles, Li Ji sighed and continued to move forward.

But the front is full of rivers, mostly begging women and men.

Li Ji was not interested in this at first, but after watching for a while, watching them release river lanterns and Kongming lanterns, Li Ji became interested.

He set up a small stall everywhere. Li Ji looked around and asked the stall owner: "Old man, I don't ask for marriage, health, and blessings for my children and grandchildren, so what kind of lamp should I put on?"

The one in the booth was an old man in the senior grade. Hearing Li Ji's question, he laughed twice, then took out a river lantern from the back of the booth and handed it to Li Ji, and said to him: "This is to pray for someone with predestined relationship." , this predestined person can not help but include marriage, friends, or people who are predestined with you."

"People who are destined for me?" Li Ji looked at the river lantern up and down, left and right, it was square, and the gauze was filled with scriptures and other things.

Li Ji thought for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, this is what I want!"

Li Ji paid the money and was about to leave, but the old man stopped him and said earnestly: "Young man, you have to put this river lantern well. If the candle goes out before it is finished, it is a bad omen, and it indicates that this person will have relatives in the future." Scattered, swords slanted, not a good end."

Li Ji was stunned by the words, looked at the river lantern with some amusement, and said: "It's so particular about putting a river lantern... Old man, is what you said true or false? Don't fool me."

The old man laughed, showing his yellow teeth, and said: "Who knows, it's all spoken words handed down by the ancestors, whether it's true or not, we can only believe it, and don't believe it."

Li Ji smiled awkwardly and said, "Old man, you are really knowledgeable."

"Where, that's what the ancestors have passed down from generation to generation." The old man said, handing Li Ji a pen soaked in ink, and said: "Come on, young man, give you the pen. If you want to ask for something, Just write it on it, no, it’s okay if you don’t write it.”

Li Jigang wanted to say whether to write, but after thinking about it, he took a pen and wrote a few words on it.After finishing the work, Li Ji threw the pen to the old man and ran to light the lamp.Behind Li Ji, the old man shook his head dumbfounded.

Because there are quite a lot of people putting up lanterns, we can see the city's river lanterns floating in the river along the way.Li Ji found a random place and put the river lantern down.

Seeing the river lantern and many river lanterns gradually drifting together, slowly drifting away along the river, the scene is not without grandeur.

Li Ji looked at it twice, turned around and left after feeling bored.Then I went to another street and walked around, my stomach was full and full, as if I wanted to eat all the delicious food in my life today.

"Osmanthus cake, jujube paste cake, pine nut lily cake, cold cake, smooth sesame cake, rice cake, coconut-flavored glutinous rice cake, thousand-layer cake..." Li Ji murmured, swallowed unconsciously, and looked back and forth Turning, looking a little struggling, the stall owner grinned happily.

"My lord, if you can't decide, you can buy them all. These pastries are all made by the little family, and they are guaranteed to be delicious!"

Li Ji reached out and took out the money bag in his arms, he only had a few copper coins, and it would not be enough if he bought some of everything.

"Uh...then osmanthus cake, cold cake, lily cake... no no! No lily cake, or sesame cake? No, mille-feuille cake and shortbread look delicious too—" Li Ji looked frustrated, I can't decide whether I want to see this or not.

The stall owner also looked helpless: "Then why don't I give you a copper coin?"

"You count me cheap, and I don't have enough money..." Li Ji whispered, a money bag was suddenly handed in front of him, and the fingers holding the money bag were long and slender, with fair and delicate skin.

Li Ji was taken aback for a moment, restrained his expression, and turned his head to look.A woman was standing behind him, wearing a mask exactly like him, with a beautiful hairpin inserted into her cumbersome hair bun, step by step, the woman's eyes were deep and cold, she was wearing a blue and purple fairy dress, pink belt, Add a world of fireworks to this cold woman.

Seeing that Li Ji hadn't accepted the purse for a long time, the corner of the woman's lips curled slightly, and she said flatly, "No? Then you can't afford it anymore."

Moran, for a moment, Li Ji stretched out his hand to take the money bag and handed it to the stall owner: "Trouble, let me have one."

The stall owner happily took the money and started packing for Li Ji.

While waiting for the pastries, Li Ji returned the purse to the woman.Seeing the money bag being handed over, the woman didn't take it, but said coldly: "It seems that I have been in the Demon Realm for a while, and I have lost my temper. Thank you?"

With a shaking of his hands, Li Ji smiled awkwardly and said, "Got it?"

The woman shook her head helplessly, and said something very terrible lightly: "Can you not know? Uncle even leveled the side peaks of Yunshan Mountain."

"... Oh." Li Ji nodded lightly, because he was wearing a mask, so people couldn't see his expression clearly at the moment.

But the woman frowned, and said seriously: "I don't understand, why are you going to the Demon Realm? Are you really the demon cultivator who kills people in the gate of the immortals?"

Li Ji sneered, turned a deaf ear to the woman's words, turned to the stall owner and said, "Wrap me up tight."

The stall owner, who was enjoying listening to the opera, was taken aback for a moment, and when he looked up, he met Li Jilen's scumbag eyes, trembling all over, the stall owner nodded repeatedly, closed his eyes and ears, and began to concentrate on loading pastries.

"Li Ji!" The woman scolded, her cold eyes seemed to have never known this person before her.

"So what if it's me! What are you calling? You want to teach me a lesson." Li Ji said coldly: "My father and my brother didn't teach me a lesson. Tang Yixuan, don't think that you can do anything to me just because you have a marriage contract with my brother , I, Li Ji, are not in your turn to discipline me."

"They don't care about you because they can't find you!" Tang Yixuan looked at such a strange Li Ji, with a flash of heartache in her eyes, and said in a hoarse voice: "Do you know how much your brother is worried about you? But anyone who comes to ask for justice , were all sent back by your brother. He believed in you so much that he didn’t even eat well these days. Is that fair to your brother?"

Li Ji's nasal cavity was sore, tears filled his eyes, and he whispered unconsciously: "Look at what you said, it seems to be all my fault..."

"Isn't it your fault? Do you dare to say that you are not a demon cultivator?" Tang Yixuan asked back, the sword in her hand trembled so much that she could hardly hold it steady. Can't help but want to get out of the sheath, do you still say you haven't fallen?"

Li Ji was silent, or it was difficult to speak.

One of the two showed his sharpness, while the other was depressed. They did not hide their hearts, making the atmosphere awkward, silent, and tense...

The two of them seemed to be isolated from the outside world, and the quiet atmosphere on one side was very inconsistent with the lively scene on the other side.

"That, that..." The stall owner said cautiously, breaking the silence.After the stall owner handed over a paper bag, he said in embarrassment: "Wrapped, wrapped, guaranteed knot—"

Before the stall owner finished speaking, Li Ji snatched the paper bag, and disappeared into the crowd in a blink of an eye without saying a word.

"Hey—" Tang Yixuan didn't have time to stop her, she could only grit her teeth on the spot: "Li Ji, just wait for me."

On the other side, Li Ji, who was running away, just ran away, no matter what, Tang Yixuan was nearby, indicating that his brother might be nearby too, if he didn't run now, when would he wait?

Li Ji walked out of the bustling street all the way, seeing that the exit was in front of him, he just breathed a sigh of relief when he felt a bump on his shoulder.

An ordinary-looking young man apologized repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't look the way just now, I'm sorry!"

Li Ji frowned, and said with a sneer, "Didn't look at the road? Then you don't have to look at the road."

After saying that, Li Ji's five fingers moved one after another.The ordinary-looking man was a little angry, but he still looked like he didn't want to make matters worse. He turned around and was about to leave, but he was pulled by the waist.The man looked down and found that there was nothing, so he hurried forward.

"Oh, you're looking for death, it's the first time I've seen you." Li Ji mocked, just about to pull his index finger, the hand that was naturally hanging by his side was grabbed and lifted up.

Li Ji was taken aback, looked sideways, and there was a man about a head taller than him standing behind him, wearing the same mask as him, blurting out a deep male voice.

"Young master, be merciful."

Li Ji: "..." Damn, I won't be so unlucky, right? !

Quickly throwing off the man's shackles, Li Ji clenched his fist and pulled back all the magic strings wrapped around the man's body.Losing his support, the ordinary-looking man fell directly to the ground, covering his blood-stained stomach with one hand, so frightened that he couldn't move.

The tall man standing behind Li Ji walked over, swaying around in white clothes.The man didn't say much, walked over and took out a money bag from the man's arms.

"After this training, I hope you will reform your mistakes and don't do anything like this in the future." After finishing speaking, the man in white came over with the money bag: "My lord, your money bag."

After Li Ji took the loan, he lowered his voice and said, "Thank you, thank you."

The man in white was silent. Although he was wearing a mask, his transparent black eyes were so clear and bright that Li Ji felt as if he had been seen through. He quickly waved his hand and said, "Thank you for today, I have something else to do. Take a step!"

"If it weren't for me, the young master would have solved it on his own." The man said flatly, "I see that the young master is not someone who kills at will."

Li Ji paused, laughed dryly, and said, "A chivalrous man must sharpen his eyes when he looks at people in the future."

The man in white took a step forward, stood in front of Li Ji, and said coldly: "Mr. Hua has a doubt, I hope you can help Mr. Hua to solve the doubt."

How much ability do I have to solve the doubts of the legendary Son of Heaven?Li Ji laughed at himself in his heart, but judging by Si Huajun's appearance, he probably didn't want to get out of the way.I think I can't lose in a fight, but...

"My honor, brother Huajun, please." Now is not the time, so be patient... Li Ji followed Si Huajun with a polite and distant smirk to a nearby river with few people.

Because there are many people begging for cleverness, the river lanterns set up upstream are now floating downstream, and the dim light gathers together, which can be regarded as illuminating a whole world.

"Brother Hua Jun, what is the so-called solution of confusion?" Li Ji asked first.

Mr. Si Hua remained silent, and raised the lantern in his hand. The lantern was a square river lantern, emitting a soft yellow-red shimmer.

Li Ji was a little puzzled and said: "This is...?"

Si Huajun explained: "This is a river lantern given by guessing lantern riddles."

"Oh, and then." Li Ji was a little puzzled.

Mr. Si Hua saw that he still didn't understand, so he simply said: "The mist is lost on the tower, and the moon is in the maze."

Li Ji was taken aback for a moment, then he understood, and said, "Oh~ it's that lantern riddle, you guessed it."

"You guessed it too." Si Huajun said.

Without hesitation, Li Ji simply nodded and said, "Yes, I guessed it, so what?"

"Since you already guessed it, why didn't you tell me?" Si Hua-jun said in bewilderment.

"..." Li Ji was a little speechless, and sneered: "Everyone in the world has said that Immortal Si Hua is the son of heaven. But now it seems that you are nothing more than a hard rock. You are not human." The last four words, Li Ji said It was very quiet, but monks always had good eyesight, so Mr. Si Hua still heard it.

"What does that mean?"

Li Ji rolled his eyes angrily, and said: "The fog is lost on the tower, and the moon is lost in the mist. Type a poem. The answer is that the two vastnesses are gone."

"I know." After Si Huajun finished speaking, he raised the river lantern in his hand.

Li Ji was almost pissed off by him, and said hastily: "You said you don't understand why I didn't tell you the answer, then you should have been here from the beginning."

"Yes." Si Huajun nodded.

"Then didn't you listen to what the stall owner said? This lantern riddle was made by his son. Do you understand when I say this?"

Si Huajun: "..."

Li Jiwuli said: "You still don't understand, do you? Well, let me ask you, what does it mean that you can't see the two places?"

Si Huajun replied, "There is no one in Heaven or Hell."

Li Ji said: "That means that person is still in the world, but she can't be found anymore. The son of the stall owner has reached the age of [-], and he still has feelings. I mean, you understand."

Si Huajun: "..."

"..." Li Ji sighed deeply, not understanding how there could be such unenlightened people in this world.

Neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere was silent for a while.

Si Huajun pursed his lips, and when he was about to speak, he was quickly stopped by his eyes.

"Okay! Gentleman don't talk too much, why are you so curious about other people's family affairs." Li Ji persuaded: "You river lantern...you still hold it, or let it go."

Si Huajun was silent, then nodded.

Li Jike breathed a sigh of relief, and dragged Si Huajun to the river.Li Ji made a magic formula casually, purple light flashed, and the candles in the river lantern were lit.

"What are you still doing in a daze? I won't turn on your lamp for you." Li Ji looked at Si Huajun with some dissatisfaction.

Si Huajun stepped forward, took the lamp from Li Ji's hand, and threw it into the river.Li Ji only had time to scream, and the two of them could only watch the lamp dangling in the water as it drifted away.

Li Ji: "...that's not how the river lanterns are placed."

Si Huajun: "...Oh."

What's the use of knowing now?The lights are gone!Li Ji just looked at the leisurely river lantern with worried eyes, but he didn't notice that Si Huajun looked at him with a gradually serious expression.

"Okay, there shouldn't be any problem, it's all drifted so far away." Li Ji said, then turned to ask Si Huajun: "Hey, what do you want this lamp for?"

Si Huajun paused for a moment, and then said silently: "Marriage."

Li Ji also paused, looked at Si Huajun in a daze, and asked after a while, "You threw your marriage lamp into the water, and let it float away like that?"

Si Huajun: "...everything follows fate."

Rao, Li Ji couldn't help but swear in his heart at this moment, when he looked at Mr. Si Hua, the word 'submission' was really capitalized on his face.

Oh no, he's still wearing a mask.Thinking of this, Li Ji couldn't help but tease Si Huajun: "Tell me, if your marriage is like your lamp, it's unreliable, how unlucky you will be~"

"..." Mr. Si Hua seemed to be speechless to Li Ji.For some reason, Li Ji was able to read the word "helpless" from Si Huajun's plain eyes.

"Hey, hey! No, no!" Li Ji looked into the distance, and suddenly reached out and grabbed Si Huajun's clothes on his chest, and yanked hard, and said hastily, "Look at that lamp of yours, it seems to have hit someone else's house The lights are on!"

Si Huajun pulled Li Ji's hand hard, but he didn't pull it away, and could only follow his gaze to look over.

Sure enough, the lamp that had been slumped for a long time leaned against someone else's lamp, and it seemed to have found a sustenance, leaning more and more crookedly.At this moment, Si Huajun was no longer indifferent to world affairs, and with a finger of his left hand, the Chixiao sword was automatically unsheathed from the bridge at his waist, and flew towards the two river lanterns not far away.

Li Ji chuckled lightly and said, "Yes, Mr. Si Hua, if you let others know that your Scarlet Heaven Sword was unsheathed for this purpose, your eyes will definitely fall out of their sockets in shock."

Mr. Si Hua was unmoved, but the blade of the sword not far away trembled.Slowly approaching the two river lanterns, Chi Xiaojian dived into the water, but when the sword body dived, the water splashed up just wet the candle of the river lantern next to Si Huajun's river lantern, and the flame of the candle was extinguished immediately up.When Chi Xiaojian raised the blade again, he could only take one lamp intact, one lamp extinguished, and return to the shore with two lamps.

Li Ji hurriedly went to look at the two lamps that had been shaken by the Chi Xiao sword on the ground. It was over, one of the lamps went out, and he didn't know what the little girl was asking for.

As soon as he saw that something had happened, Li Ji said to Si Huajun in a cold voice: "That's great, don't follow fate, your lamp has found you a companion."

Look at that attitude, it's obviously nothing to do with yourself.

"The lights are all off, so it's useless for the little girl to ask for anything." Li Ji said gloatingly, thinking what to do with you.

Si Huajun put the sword back into the scabbard, looked at the extinguished candle, and said calmly, "I will make an apology myself."

"Apologize?" Li Ji said with great interest: "Then if this lamp is asking for marriage, what if the little girl wants to marry you?"

Si Huajun: "..."

Seeing that he was speechless, Li Ji seemed to have made a fortune, Le's mouth was split open, and it was obvious that he was joking.

Si Hua-jun sighed indistinctly, lowered his body and picked up the river lantern, trying to find out if there was a name or wish on the river lantern.

And Li Ji was still mocking: "It's over~ If it's a girl's river lantern, it's fine, but if a big man asks for marriage... Hahahaha~ How bad is it for a big man to ask for marriage, and I can't find it When it comes to daughter-in-law, hahaha, no, I'm dying of laughter ~ Hey, Mr. Si Hua, what do you think if that man doesn't want compensation and wants to marry you?"

Si Huajun stood where he was, holding the river lantern in his hand, motionless.Li Ji called him several times but didn't respond, so he leaned over curiously. Could it be some kind of weird river lantern?For example: The one who picked up the river lantern is with me, etc...

However, when Li Ji leaned over to look at it, he was also stunned.

On this river lantern, it is not a woman asking for marriage, nor a man asking for marriage, nor is it some weird request, but a sentence that makes people scratch their heads.

'Li Jihahahahaha'

Li Ji: "..."

Si Huajun: "..."

Li Ji silently stretched out his hand to cover the part below his nose, unable to laugh anymore.

It's his lamp... well, it's his lamp.

Sensing Si Huajun's gaze shifted to him, Li Ji laughed a few times in embarrassment, his mind turned back and forth, and finally, Li Ji laughed twice.

"Li Ji, oh, Li Ji! Is Li Ji the most notorious demon cultivator in the cultivation world recently? Bad, too bad for him! Hey, tell me, does his fart hurt from time to time? Now the cultivation world regards him He is a thorn in the side, how dare he come here to put up any lamps! I owe him so much!" After Li Ji finished speaking, he stepped back quickly and said, "That, that, knight, my cultivation is not high, if this is a blind cat If I ran into a dead rat and told me to catch up with him, wouldn’t that be a dead end, he’s quite powerful! Then, then I’ll take a step ahead?”

After speaking, Li Ji turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Si Huajun's words.

"Mr. Hua has a doubt, and I want to ask my son to explain it to Mr. Hua."

"……Say."

"Dare to ask yourself, how do you meet yourself?"

"..." Li Ji was silent for a moment, took off the mask on his face and threw it on the grass beside him, and said coldly: "I can't make a clone? Eat carrots and don't worry about it."

Li Ji didn't look back, so he couldn't see Si Huajun's expression clearly at this time, but he could only hear his tone at the moment, which was completely cold.

"Junior brother, the sea of ​​suffering has no limit, turn your head and keep going."

Li Ji: "...Oh, you don't know anything, you don't understand anything, can you stop the blind man from following the smile of marrying a daughter-in-law and just joining in the fun."

Si Huajun looked at the tall and straight back in front of him, frowned, and said: "I may not know many things, but I know that the devil is not the right way!"

Li Ji turned around and retorted loudly to Mr. Si Hua's indifferent face who also took off his mask at some point: "Everything in the world exists forever in the way of heaven. If gods have something, demons can't?!"

"You may have improved your cultivation a little now, but that is not the right way, and what you do is not right! You will end up encountering ghosts if you walk many night roads, and you will die if you do many unrighteous deeds. Junior brother, you were born in the Yunshan sect. Since I was born, I have been scented with the principles of Qingxin Jue, Heaven and Earth Dao, and Human Discussion of Heaven and Earth, so I should also understand that Heaven and Earth—”

"It's so annoying!" Li Jiren interrupted him unbearably, and said viciously: "Mr. Si Hua, I have a word for you: The Buddha wants to cross the devil, but he doesn't know that the devil can't cross it; if he tries to cross this calamity by force, he will fall deeper into the devil."

Si Huajun remained silent, Li Ji smiled with satisfaction on his face, but for some reason, there seemed to be a hole in his heart, the cold wind whizzed in, chilling his heart.

"Okay, since you already know, then...see you on the battlefield." Li Ji said, turned and left.

"Junior brother, I'm not a Buddha, and you're not a demon either." Si Huajun's words reached Li Ji's ears and made him pause.

At this time, Si Huajun's still indifferent voice came from behind.

"I don't cross demons, I cross you."

Slowly, Li Ji couldn't control his body, turned around, and met the eyes of the man in white. In an instant, it seemed that the sound of the wind had stopped.

All the scenery faded in Li Ji's eyes, and the only thing that was clear was the faint glimmer and seriousness in the black eyes.

Thousands of river lanterns illuminated this silent night, as if they had forgotten the time, and the two kept looking at each other, as if they had forgotten everything.

Unexpectedly, this was their first and last quiet moment.

[The author has something to say]: 7000+ to celebrate the promotion~

Also, ladies never lie, this is really the last quiet moment of the two (previous life; don't worry, this life is sweet. Hmm... maybe?