Journey to the Rose

Test the temperature by feeling it with your finger.

Ruan Xi felt that the space-time mirror was a little hot.

"Is it unusable?" Ruan Xi frowned tightly, "Why does it still get hot after using it for a long time?"

Lu Zhenghe also stretched out his finger, touched it with his fingertips, and said, "Maybe it can't be used for a long time, just like when we shoot a gun, the barrel of the gun is the hottest when the shooting is just finished."

Ruan Xi: "Then what should we do?"

"Let it cool down."

With that said, Lu Zhenghe searched all over his body but found no clean towels that could be used to wipe the mirror. He had no choice but to pull out a small crumpled flannel from Ruan Xi's trouser pocket, which was specially used to wipe the small wild goose feathers. knife.

He raised his chin towards Ruan Xi, with a smile on his lips, and asked tentatively, "Can I borrow it?"

"Why are you so skinny..."

Ruan Xi glared at him, "Wipe it, and return it to me after wiping."

As if hearing some terrible comments, Lu Zhenghe smiled, raised his eyebrows and said, "My skin?"

"It's okay. You're just a little skinnier than when I was a child."

"When you were a child?"

"The city of ablaze believes in the god of fire. There is a special place for statues in the gazebo by the sea in my manor." Ruan Xi felt the cold and damp, and the volume of his speech was very low, "Once I made trouble outside. After returning home, my dad wanted to deal with me with family law, I crawled and hid under the dining table all the way, ran out of the house, rushed to the gazebo where the statue was placed, and hid behind the statue.”

Lu Zhenghe knew that Ruan Xipi was real, but he didn't expect to be like this, and asked, "Does God protect you?"

"I turned God around. My dad didn't know, but for the next six months, I begged God who turned his back on him."

"Haven't you been cleaned up again?"

"No, he thought God was punishing him, and he was scared to death, and never dared to deal with me again."

"Just like I don't dare to deal with you."

"Don't take advantage of me," Ruan Xi raised her eyes and said calmly, "You used to fall in love early, have you forgotten?"

Whenever the "memory blind spot" is touched, Lu Zhenghe is best at being silent and showing disdain, but now he still has a good attitude, looks at Ruan Xi with the most sincere eyes, and then utters a guilty and beating sentence: "...forgot gone."

With a light cough, Ruan Xi touched his face and moved closer, shortening the distance between them.After taking a breath, Ruan Xi whispered: "Then let me tell you a secret."

A little dazed by being hooked, Lu Zhenghe said: "What secret?"

Ruan Xi said: "Not only did you fall in love early, but you also fell into the mud just to climb over the wall and send me flowers."

Doesn't sound too believable.

Lu Zhenghe frowned slightly, and remained skeptical of what he was complaining about.

Ruan Xi continued to lie to Lu Zhenghe: "You used to be very timid. You were afraid when you saw a mouse, and you would shed tears, and then hid behind me and said, 'My husband protects me'. In order to make you courageous, I let you Standing in the back garden of the manor with mice for half the night, you will not be afraid after that."

"……yes."

Lu Zhenghe looked at him silently, with six big characters written all over his face: Why don't I believe it?

"There was an earthquake in Earthquake City, and the aftershocks spread to Beast City, which is adjacent to us. The birds in the forest were frightened and flew south. You were still a boy at that time, and you said you would take me to see birds. We stood On the coast, with the sea breeze blowing, watching those birds fly by in groups at low altitude, I feel quite romantic."

"..."

Lu Zhenghe felt that even thinking about it now was quite romantic, but he didn't dare to say it.

"Then," Ruan Xi changed the subject, with an uncontrollable smile on his lips, and blinked, "then some birds shed their feathers, and the gray feathers fell on the beach, and the cleaning team in the city rushed over to clean them. , Said that the two of us stood on the reef along the coast, like two feather dusters."

"Did they see that you are Ruan Xi?"

"Of course not. You protected me behind you, and you probably thought it was just two rebellious high school students who fell in love with each other early."

but……

The truth is of course more than that.

It was actually Ruan Xi who asked to see it that day, because he was very interested in this strange scene of the Great Migration.But in the imagination, there is no grand scene of birds passing through the sky, only the dark sky.

It's fine if the imagination doesn't match the facts, and it's covered in bird feathers.

Ruan Xi didn't dare to go home because she was afraid of smelling on her body. She dragged Lu Zhenghe to a remote black hotel in the city to take a bath under the guise of going to the home of her best classmate in astrology to study before the exam.That kind of black hotel does not need to be an adult to open a room, and you can go up and check in after paying a deposit and getting a key.

Ruan Xi still remembered that that night, there was a damp smell in the room after the rain, very similar to the 24-hour hotel in Beast City that night.

After taking a bath, they went to bed, but it was a standard room with two beds, and they turned off the lights and said good night to each other.

Half an hour passed, neither of them closed their eyes, Lu Zhenghe lifted the quilt, got off his bed, got into Ruan Xi's quilt, and said you sleep, I will watch you sleep.Ruan Xi closed her eyes and pretended to fall asleep quietly, until the sound of running water came from the bathroom.

He fell asleep in a daze, and woke up intermittently several times from one in the morning to four in the morning, and the bathroom was always running water.Ruan Xi carefully sat up from the bed, with sleepy eyes, looking in the direction of the bathroom.

The mirror in front of the sink has never fogged up.

"When you..."

Ruan Xi suddenly felt that even if he asked such a strange question as "Did you secretly hide and take a flight" one night, Lu Zhenghe would definitely not be able to answer it.

After thinking about it, Ruan Xi rubbed her eyes, "It's also quite mysterious."

"Mysterious?" Lu Zhenghe was curious.

"It's...it's nothing." Ruan Xi was really shy, coughed uncomfortably, turned her head away to look at other places, "it's a compliment."

"You must be as cute before as you are now," Lu Zhenghe stared at his exposed neck, his Adam's apple moved, as if he was swallowing, "willing to be a feather duster with me."

Hearing what he said, Ruan Xi laughed.

Laugh all the time.

You are the cutest, obviously you agreed to accompany me to be a feather duster!

Then, however, once upon a time there was a ball given by the most famous families in the town, with flowers everywhere, and tinsel and ribbons flying.It is said to be a dance party, but in fact, each family pushes the children in front of everyone, and let the king choose.

At that time, Ruan Xi didn't want to go, and she was very rebellious, so she said that she would rather dance with a feather duster.As a result, on the same day, Ruan Xizhen grabbed a feather duster and danced in full view, directly causing the Ruan family to lose the right to choose a spouse for him in Ablaze City.This incident was also a laughing stock in the city, but Ruan Xi didn't care.

Her thoughts gradually came back, Ruan Xi remembered what Lu Zhenghe said "willing to be a feather duster", she felt better, and said, "There are so many things I am willing to do."

"is it?"

"Of course," Ruan Xi winked at him, "You don't know me well enough."

Ruan Xi is the one who can give everything for the worthy person and the worthy thing.Sometimes he does things recklessly, regardless of the future, even if it's just for that moment of refreshment and comfort.

"Lu Zhenghe." He said suddenly.

Lu Zhenghe replied: "Well, what's the matter?"

Ruan Xi opened her mouth and said slowly: "When the land is healed, we will go back to Ablaze to see the sea, go back to Ice City to soak in hot springs, and go back to Jewel to participate in a hearty fighting game. You accompany me, we will stand The highest mountain on land makes a wish..."

But he knows that the land is not the setting sun.

The ground that has sunk will not rise again.

·

At the end of the tree corridor is the city center.

At this time, the morning light is faint, the night has passed, and a new day is coming at dawn. Judging from the general appearance of Key City, it looks more like an ordinary, outdated gray town.

In addition to the tree corridor, this piece of land also has a distinctive "chain bridge", which is connected in series between various residential areas, and serves as a "road" between each other.However, there is no river under the bridge, nor is it an abyss. It is just a series of criss-crossed streams, which are full of turbid stagnant water, and the air is always filled with unpleasant moisture.

According to Wen Kai's analysis, because of the intrusion of seawater, these smells should have only recently, and it was this smell that sounded the alarm before the disaster.

The exterior walls of residential buildings in Key City are mottled, and the buildings are not high. At a glance, many households have already collected clothes on the balconies, and there are no signs of people walking around.

Following the sound of footsteps, some people who had already packed their luggage gathered on the street.

The crowd was too dense, and it was not convenient for Ruan Xi to stay in the open field for a long time. Wen Kai suggested to find a courtyard of a residential building, so that he could take a little breath at the foot of the outer wall.He and Gu Zirong went to the street to see if there were any shops that were open. It was already dawn, and he hadn't slept all night, exhausting his energy and energy, so he decided to make up for breakfast first.

When he reached the corner of the courtyard, Lu Zhenghe winked at Ruan Xi, then hooked his fingers towards Li Shen, and turned into another deserted alleyway.Song Shumian didn't know what was going on, so he looked at it for a while, Ruan Xi pressed his shoulders, and gagged his mouth with a bun.

With a steamed stuffed bun in his mouth, Song Shumian spoke vaguely, his eyes widened: "Brother Ruan Xi, Lu Zhenghe won't kill Li Shen, will he?"

"This is..."

Ruan Xi pretended to be deep, and pretended to think for a few seconds, scaring him: "It's possible."

Song Shumian was so frightened that the steamed stuffed bun almost dropped: "Ah?!"

"I don't know either," Ruan Xi's cheeks puffed up, and he waited until the meal was over before speaking: "Eat your meal well, and don't ask if you shouldn't."

Nodding his head, Song Shumian bit down and laughed, "Wow...it's still stuffed with meat."

"Of course." Ruan Xi said.

The alleys of Key City are cold and damp, but fortunately the sun above has completely emerged, and the sun's light illuminates everything brightly.Li Shen was in it, feeling a "now is daytime" atmosphere for a long time.

Take a bite of the bun and smell it.It smells so good.

Li Shen didn't realize the seriousness of the problem at all.

He looked east and west, took a sip of soy milk when he was choked, and after he quickly finished his breakfast, he turned his head to look at Lu Zhenghe, who had always had a bad expression, wiped the tip of his nose, feeling a little guilty, not knowing what he had done .

He scratched his head and said, "Tell me, young master, what's the matter?"

"Four years ago," Lu Zhenghe was also a person who didn't like to make rounds, he said straight to the point, "Have you ever been to Ablaze City?"

In one sentence, neither short nor long, it disrupted Li Shen's casual pace.He turned his head in surprise, his breathing stagnated, put his hand on the place where his waist rested on his penis, trembling uncontrollably: "Young...young master."

Lu Zhenghe raised his eyes calmly, unable to see his emotions clearly from his expression: "Just answer me, have you?"

The superior's talk has reached this point, and Li Shen has nothing else to say: "Yes."

"Li Shen."

Lu Zhenghe rarely called his name so seriously, "You never told me that I don't actually belong to Zenith City."

Four years ago, after being "rescued", Lu Zhenghe woke up, and the first person he saw when he opened his eyes was Li Shen who was guarding the bed.I don't know if it was the fear of the unknown environment, or the "baby plot", Lu Zhenghe directly chose Li Shen as a soldier in his army to train with him without the consent of his family.

Along the way, Li Shen has changed from a soldier to an officer, and then to the best airborne personnel of the Northern Alliance, all of them have been watched by Lu Zhenghe step by step.

Lu Zhenghe wasn't really angry either.

He knew that in the final analysis, Li Shen still belonged to the Northern Alliance. Before he had real power, Li Shen was ordered by his father, so it was understandable that he could not help himself.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhenghe eased his emotions, raised his eyes, and looked at the other party steadfastly.

Li Shen knew that he still had room for it, so it wasn't a big mistake, otherwise, with the young master's usual ruthless style, Lu had already launched a sudden attack before he even left the tree corridor. The gun was aimed at his head.

He was panting heavily, as if his arms had no place to rest, he was very nervous, "Young master, it won't be good for you to know about the things that have passed..."

He was apprehensive and shocked, not sure if Lu Zhenghe remembered all the past, but unfortunately he couldn't see any flaws in Lu Zhenghe's expression.

Lu Zhenghe didn't continue to struggle with Li Shen's words, he chose what he wanted to know, and said, "Why did you arrest me?"

"The prophecy said that the Wei family would get lost in the thorn bushes. After finding the puzzle solver to solve it, the puzzle solver took a card about the heir... At that time, the Wei family knew that this sticking point must be related to the inheritance. There is an illegitimate son of the Wei family living outside, which is a matter of tacit understanding throughout the Northern Alliance, and people have been looking for you all along, but no one thought that it would be at the southernmost end of the land."

The sun had come out completely, and Li Shen felt the scorching light shining on his back.The undershirt under his combat uniform was already drenched with sweat, and it was firmly adhered to the skin on his back.

"Until you find me."

"Yes, and then I carried out my mission."

Lu Zhenghe's gaze is captivating.

It's a prophet again, he feels that the prophet from curse city is simply a great weapon to disrupt the peace of the land.He thought of the family that made him feel strange, and thought of the lost memories shown on the space-time mirror, and slowly said: "Li Shen, now your young master is me, not someone else."

"I understand." Li Shen was sweating profusely.

"I still have something to ask you." Lu Zhenghe frowned, "How much do you know about me in the past? Have you heard of anything?"

"That's not true, I just went to complete my mission once." Li Shen was also seriously thinking back, "It was the first time I saw you in Ablaze City, and I didn't even see your face clearly. I really know you , that day you woke up from the hospital bed."

Lu Zhenghe was silent for a few seconds, and squeezed out the cruel words from his throat: "Say, your name is Wei Zheng."

"Yes." Li Shen lowered his head, looking at the toe of his military boots covered in mud, feeling a little dazed.

"Li Shen, Key City is still far away from the top of the snow mountain." Lu Zhenghe stared at him, slowed down his speech, and continued, "I don't blame you for the past. But you must not hide anything from me in the future."

·

Ruan Xi swallowed the seventh bun.

The seventh bun is... stuffed with potatoes and cowpeas, and it's barely mixed with pieces of ham sausage and some strange stuffing, with very little meat flavor.Isn't this really an egg cake? !

But these are not important anymore, the important thing is that there is only the last sip of his soy milk left.If the eighth bun was not swallowed with soy milk, he felt that he would definitely choke to death.

Hey, forget it.

Letting go, Ruan Xi put the eighth bun back into the plastic bag, and decided to take it easy and give this bun to Lu Zhenghe to eat.After all, I ate seven buns in a row and didn't get a whole meat stuffed bun, so the eighth bun must be it!

Lu Zhenghe came over, followed by Li Shen.

The two chatted from time to time and seemed to have no problem.Ruan Xi's gaze met Lu Zhenghe's reassuring look.

"Eat the buns," Ruan Xi handed over the remaining buns, "If you don't eat them, they will be cold."

"Okay." Lu Zhenghe was not as polite as he was at the beginning, he opened his mouth and bit half of the steamed stuffed bun. It was indeed because it was too dry that he choked so hard that he swallowed the steamed stuffed bun.

He took a bite, and Ruan Xi bumped his elbow lightly, and whispered, "Is it made of meat?"

Lu Zhenghe nodded: "Yes. Did you eat any stuffed meat?"

"I……"

Ruan Xi smiled, "Of course I got it too."

Key·58 "I guess it's a place where roses are grown."