Twilight War

05

It was raining in Wellings, and it was raining lightly outside the window not long after he came back. Huangxuan Jin was lying on the sofa reading a book and waiting for Vichypel to finish the meal.He was only wearing a white vest and shorts, with one calf draped over the other knee.

Vichypel was tall but thin, and the apron wrapped around his slender waist drew a beautiful arc. Huangxuan Jin sneaked a few times along the edge of the book.

After the meal was ready, the two of them still sat on the ground to eat, and Wihipel didn't feel aggrieved. He carefully peeled the shrimp and put it in a bowl in front of Huangxuan Jin.

Huang Xuanjin looked at it, held back for a while and said, "I don't peel the shrimp when I eat it."

Vehipel: "..."

"In this way, the outside is crispy and the inside is soft, and the taste is better." Huangxuan Jin explained earnestly, fearing that it would hurt Vehipel's heart.Of course, the more important reason is that he is lazy.

Wisipel was stunned for a while, looking at the shrimp skins that were peeled off and put on the plate beside him, "Here are the shrimp skins, do you want to eat them together?"

"No need." Huang Xuanjin quickly shook his head.

After eating, Huangxuan Jin continued to lie on the sofa and read a book, and Wisipel also found a book on the bookshelf on the black tower to read.Wisipel scanned the titles of the books on the bookshelf. Huang Xuanjin read a lot of books, ranging from voluminous masterpieces to books that have been read many times, and there are many strange books.

It was raining lightly outside the window, Huangxuanjin huddled in the sofa, and felt a little tired after watching for a while, Huangxuanjin asked Wisipel, "What are you looking at?"

"Water gives birth to all things, and all things return to water." Wihipel read the words in the book.

Huang Xuanjin lowered his head and thought for a while, "Thales?"

Vesper nodded.

"I still prefer the other sentence." Huang Xuanjin smiled, "The world is an eternal flame, burning according to a certain measure, and extinguishing according to a certain measure."

That was the discussion of the origin of the universe by philosophers thousands of years ago. Thales of Miletus took water as the origin of all things. He was the first person to think about the essence of the universe.But Heraclitus regards the eternal burning fire as the essence of everything.This world was a flame in the past, it is in the present, and it will still be in the future.

"Why?" Vehipel asked.

"The whole world is wet water." Huang Xuanjin tilted his head and thought for a while, "...that would be too cold."

The rain outside the window hit the transparent glass, leaving streaks of water. The boy curled up on the sofa like a cat afraid of the cold, tilting his head and saying.The philosophers a thousand years ago were arguing endlessly, and the great speeches were engraved on the scroll for a long time, but the boy just tilted his head and said that it was too cold.

Vihipel suddenly felt that there is nothing wrong with this, the origin of the world is an eternal burning flame.He thought almost indulgently that the eternally damp water was too cold for his teenager.

"What about you, you've been watching for a long time, what are you looking at?" Wihipel asked.

"'Golden Bough' is really thick, and it's good to flip through when you're bored." Huang Xuanjin said. "But sometimes it's really hard to understand."

"for example?"

"This book says that the priests of the temple in ancient times were called the "King of the Forest", but they could be held by escaped slaves. However, any other escaped slave who can break off a branch from the tree he guards day and night, If you are qualified to duel with him, you can replace him if you can kill him. And that branch is a golden branch." Huangxuan Jin read the introduction in the book, then raised his head and asked Vichypel, "I always find it difficult to understand. "

Wisipel smiled, "It is said later that the ancient king was a symbol of the gods, but when his term of office expires or he loses a battle, he must be executed. Because people think that when the king grows old, his soul will change. to grow old, the king must be killed in his health, and the divine soul in his body be passed on to the next successor."

"However, when the king has more powerful rights in this world, he will not be willing to die like this. He will let a person related to himself die in his place. Later, the king directly looks for the exiled prisoner to die for him. The prisoner will Be king for seven days, become a temporary king, these seven days are the carnival, and after the carnival is over, the prisoner will die instead of the king."

"In the eyes of the ancients, death and resurrection are consistent with the withering and flourishing of plants. When the escaped slave breaks the "golden branch", it not only obtains the right to duel with the reincarnated priest, but also symbolizes that the holy soul will move to the new In the body, resurrected in a new body."

"Later, not only the king, but all the people would hand over their sins to the fugitive slaves in the carnival ceremony, and when the fugitive slaves were executed, their sins would all be settled."

Huang Xuanjin thought for a while, "So it was the fugitive slave who bore the sins of the king and the people, and then died in their place."

Vesper nodded.

"Do you let others bear your own mistakes? How can you let others bear it when it is clearly your own fault." Huang Xuanjin said with his head down.

Wisipel looked at Huangxuanjin anxiously, those blue eyes were full of deep color, like the sky about to rain.He bit his lip as if he wanted to say something, but when he was about to say something, Huang Xuanjin had already lowered his head and continued to look at it, so Wisipel still didn't say anything in the end.

Leaden gray sky, rainy night with thick fog.

Sometimes it's not the one who did the wrong that gets punished.

Wischpel wanted to say.

"By the way, the golden branch is mistletoe. Mistletoe will turn like gold after being picked for a few months, so it is called the golden branch." Huangxuan Jin suddenly raised his head and said, "I remember that in Nordic mythology. Loki killed Baldr, the God of Light, with mistletoe, and all his betrayals began, and then there was the judgment of the gods, and he was sentenced to be cast into the eternal burning lake of brimstone and fire..."

——Frigga, the Queen of God, dreamed that her beloved son was about to be killed, so she ordered everything not to hurt him, except that the mistletoe was too weak to be ignored by the Queen of God. Loki gave the branch to the blind Huo Del, Hodel threw the branch at Hodel, and the branch became "Evergreen Sword".

Baldur, the god of light, died, night slew day, and the first battle of twilight came.

The cold rain hit the glass window, and the reflection on the glass window, the side face of the man who had always been stern like a god, was gradually blurred by the curved and falling rain marks. The lead gray fog outside the window was deep, and the image of the man’s back was a silent sculpture .

"Why did he kill Baldr?" Huang Xuanjin asked, "All of Loki's previous jokes have never brought any real harm to the gods, and his jokes are just like a child trying to win the attention of adults. .But why did he suddenly kill Baldr."

"It is said in "The Great Edda" that Heimdall doesn't like Loki, but there has never been a record of Loki and Baldr. If there is really any past between them that is so serious that Loki wants to kill Baldr, why? There is no record in the "Great Edda"?"

Wischpel didn't answer, and there was endless night rain outside the window.

"The Lake of Sulfur and Fire, what does it look like there?" Huang Xuanjin asked suddenly.

Vichypel shook his head.

"At least, it won't be cold there anymore." Huang Xuanjin smiled.

As the night gradually deepened, Huang Xuanjin looked out the window, "The violin player downstairs is not here today."

"Maybe it's because of the rain." Wischpel said without looking up, looking at the book in his hand.

"But that person sometimes comes back even when it rains, and he plays the violin below in heavy rain. I don't know who can give him money in rainy days. He plays the violin all night, as if he won't be tired. It's a pity. I didn't come today, otherwise I really wanted to see you."

"How's the pull?" Wisipel asked with his head down.

"That's it."

"...Why, isn't it good?" Vehipel frowned.

"That's not true. The tone is too sad. It's like my wife ran away with someone else. It sounds like I can't marry a wife and I'm doomed to be lonely all my life."

"...Is it that miserable?"

"Yes! Why not, I would rather play the suona than this one who ran away from his wife. Since he came to play the violin, several swans on the Swan Lake have been scared away, and even the crows dare not fly here."

"is it?"

"Maybe it's because I stole a few bird eggs." Huang Xuanjin shrugged.

"Then what song do you want to hear?"

"What I want to hear is useless. He has to be willing to change it. I don't think he will be able to play some festive tunes in his life if his wife can't go back."

"Next time I come here to bring the piano, I'll play it for you if you want to hear it." Wihipel looked at Huangxuan Jin and said with a smile.

Huang Xuanjin looked at Wisipel, "You don't lie to me."

"of course not."

"Okay, I want to listen to a hundred birds chasing the phoenix. In the past, whenever there was a happy event under the mountain temple, an old man played the suona in front of it. It was a joy. Later, I went to find him, and he played the suona for me every day. Every time I brought him A pot of wine worth three Wen will do."

"..." Wisipel said, "That's a suona tune."

"Look, you still lie to me, I know."

Vehipel: "..."

After a long time, Huangxuan Jin suddenly said: "The old man has been playing the song of the hundred birds and the phoenix for others all his life, but he has never heard anyone play it for him once, maybe he will never hear this song for him in his life. The old man told me that when he dies, remember to bring him another pot of shochu worth three Wen, and also play a song for him to listen to."

"However, I don't know if the old man is dead or not. After such a long time, I'm gone. I'm afraid he can't even afford three Wen's worth of shochu with his two dollars."

Huangxuanjin smiled, but Vehipel felt a little lonely looking at him.

In the eyes of everyone, that young man is arrogant and arrogant.

But his arrogance and madness are only for a moment, and more often he is lonely and quiet.

The night rain outside the window seemed to be falling endlessly.

"It's time to go to bed," Vichypel said softly.

"En." Huang Xuanjin nodded.

"I'll take a shower first." Wihipel stood up and rubbed the boy's hair.

Vehippel came out wiping his hair and saw that there was a floor covering on the floor.

"You sleep there tonight." Huang Xuanjin said without looking up while chewing on a bag of potato chips.

"It's cold tonight." Wihipel looked at the boy and said.

"I can sleep too." Huang Xuanjin got up and went to the bathroom after finishing speaking.

After Huangxuan Jin came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, he saw that Wisipel had already consciously lay down on the bunk, and unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he turned his head to get his pajamas, Huang Xuanjin suddenly turned his head and looked at him. Wischpel, "Why do I remember that the floor was not laid there just now?"

Just now he obviously laid the floor far away from his bedside, why did he suddenly run so close to his bedside now!

"Is there? Maybe you were dazzled just now." Vehipel said without even looking at Huangxuan Jin, his face was neither red nor heartbeat, and he didn't even blink his eyes.

"Move back."

"It's been a tiring day today. I'm really tired after working so hard to cook. I'm going to sleep. Good night." Wihipel pulled the blindfold off.

Huangxuan Jin rolled his eyes. There was really nothing he could do about it, so he had to turn his back and change into his pajamas. Just halfway through the change, Huang Xuan Jin suddenly turned around and saw Wisipel looking at him leisurely. , "Xiao Huangniao, you've lost weight." Wisipel's silver hair was tangled on the pillow on the floor, but he kept looking at him.

"Thank you, if you said this to Elivisa, she might not even read the contract you handed over and sign it directly."

"Aren't you used to eating?" Wisipel asked, looking at the outline of the butterfly bones behind Huangxuanjin. When Huangxuanjin was changing clothes, those two bones were struggling under the flesh like butterfly wings, beautiful , but like a startled butterfly that will fly away at any time.

"Elivisa doesn't raise pigs anymore, and she won't sell me an extra gold coin if she feeds me fat."

"If only I would buy it."

"If you are willing to pay a gold coin for a catty of meat, Elivisa might really dismantle my bones and put them on a scale and sell them by the catty. But if your highness really buys it back, you will lose a lot, so I advise your highness to think twice. "

"is it?"

"One gold coin per catty is definitely a loss, and one silver coin per catty can barely pay back the original. If your highness really wants to talk to Elivisa, remember this price. Don't agree to an extra copper plate, otherwise it will be true. loss."

Huangxuan Jin finished changing clothes and walked to the bed, but when he walked past Visipel, his ankle was suddenly held. Wissipel lay on the floor, and gently rubbed the protruding joints of Huangxuan Jin's ankle with his thumb, Vehipel's hands were always cold, as if they had no temperature. "The ground is actually quite comfortable. Would you like to lie down and try?" Wisipel looked at Huangxuan Jin from bottom to top.

"Vichpel, I may have forgotten to tell you. In fact, there are a few sofas downstairs that are quite comfortable. Do you want to try them?"

Wisipel didn't speak, and still rubbed Huang Xuanjin's ankle with his fingers, then gently lowered his head and kissed the joints of his ankle, and then said with a light smile, "Sweet dream."

He let go of Huangxuan Jin, and lay back on the paved floor, his long silver hair spread out like a galaxy, and his silver eyelashes seemed to be covered with snow.