The mountain ghost blows out the lights

The gift that Shen Lianxing gave Yan Jinping last night was a small wooden ball that he designed and assembled.

The wooden ball is composed of many parts connected to each other, the inside is hollow, and it will make a sound when it is shaken.If you want to see what is inside, you have to decompose and disassemble the various structures that make up the wooden ball according to certain rules.

Yan Jinping was so tired last night that he went back to his room to rest and didn't even have time to watch it, so he didn't have the time to study it.Today, I only remembered it after hearing Shen Lianxing's reminder. I took out the wooden ball that I had forgotten for a long time from my sleeve, held it in my hand and looked at it for a while.

Shen Lianxing smiled and said, "The gift is inside, open it and have a look."

The sphere appears to have been carved from huanghuali.The surface is polished very smooth. Although the seams can be seen, it is difficult to feel the traces of the seams by hand.If you ignore those thin seams, the whole ball looks almost one piece.

There don't seem to be many parts?

——Boss Yan sees many rare treasures, and the material and craftsmanship of this thing are not unusual.He is very confident in his ingenuity, and he watched Shen Lianxing put it together last night, so he didn't take it seriously at first, thinking that he would be able to take this simple ball apart soon, Feeling very good about myself.

But he pondered back and forth confidently for a while, even pulling and pressing, and almost knocked against the corner of the table, but only found a movable component on the ball.This part of the wooden block can be slightly pushed in half an inch, but then it can no longer be moved. It can only be shaken vigorously to make it retract by itself.

...Could it be stuck?

Yan Jinping subconsciously glanced at Shen Lianxing.

Shen Lianxing stood beside him leisurely, as if waiting for him to take a look at him.At this moment, he finally caught his gaze, and then said leisurely: "How about it, how about I help you?"

He felt that this was a very friendly proposal, but to Yan Jinping today, it sounded like a bit of a beating, like a joke that he was not smart.

Is this worth it?So Yan Jinping glanced at him, and refused with integrity: "Young Master Shen, don't worry, I can do it myself."

Although dismantling this thing is indeed not Yan Jinping's strong point, but he is Yan Jinping after all, he has many methods, and he is not limited to this ordinary method.He twirled his two fingers and made a telescopic fetch, without taking apart the wooden ball at all, he just grabbed the thing out from the middle of the wooden ball.

Shen Lianxing: ...

Yan Jinping threw the wooden ball back to Shen Lianxing, and raised his eyebrows proudly: "What are you doing with all these detours? Waste of time."

Shen Lianxing was not angry at being scolded by him like this.He shrugged his shoulders, nimbly pushed his fingers twice on the ball, twisted half a circle there, and restored the wooden ball into a pile of wooden blocks with three or two strokes, and took it back into his arms.

Shen Lianxing would give Yan Jinping some gadgets from time to time, and they were usually practical and rare in the pavilion.But this time it was beyond Yan Jinping's expectation that the thing inside the wooden ball turned out to be a ring.

The ring is very simple, carved out of emerald green jadeite and processed into the shape of vines.The vines are wrapped twice to form a ring, and the carving is very good, but there is no other superfluous decoration.

"Ring?" Yan Jinping raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise, "Why is it a ring?"

In Yanjing City, both men and women have the custom of wearing rings.In fact, there is nothing special about it, just to look good on it.But it is one thing to buy this kind of close-fitting accessories, and another thing to give them as gifts. The relationship between the two must be very close, so as not to appear a little offensive.

Shen Lianxing, this is...

Shen Lianxing pretended not to understand what he meant, so he explained solemnly: "I think this color looks good, and it suits you."

Yan Jinping's skin is fair, so it's really suitable to wear something darker in color.

He also said: "Ah Jin, you don't know something. I made this ring before I went to the snow mountain. It was supposed to be given to you a long time ago, but you were really unfamiliar with me at that time, so you put it aside."

At that time, the two had just met, and Yan Jinping still adhered to the principle that as a businessman, everything must be "reciprocated". Whenever Shen Lianxing gave him something, he had to get the same gift in return to be happy.But Shen Lianxing just wanted to give him a gift, and didn't want Yan Jinping to return the gift at all, so although he prepared a lot of small things, he never sent them out.

After the experience of the snow mountain, although nothing seems to have changed, in fact, some things have become different subtly.

Just like now, although Yan Jinping doesn't wear much jewelry on weekdays, it's because he has never met a suitable one, and he himself is too lazy to look for it, not because he doesn't like or despise his wife.Besides, he considered himself to be friends with Shen Lianxing, and there was no reason to refuse a friend who gave him something small.

Yan Jinping raised the ring to look at it, tried it on one by one, and finally put it on the index finger of his left hand.

The seams fit perfectly and are slightly tight, so it won't fall off even if you move around, as if it was custom-made for him.He glanced at Shen Lianxing, wondering if the man had measured him while he was not paying attention.

"Thank you." He said sincerely, "It's very suitable, I like it very much."

Shen Lianxing was a little surprised.

He actually expected that Yan Jinping would accept this gift, but he never thought that he would put the ring on directly.After all, I have seen a lot of Boss Yan's appearance that he doesn't even bother to fasten his belt when he doesn't go out. Presumably he is not used to accessories like rings.

The reason why Shen Lianxing gave it away was just to let him put it away and store it anywhere.

But Yan Jinping is like this now...he can't help but want more.

Yan Jinping's hand was still raised in the air.His fingers are not slender, but very slender.It's just that the wrist exposed from the slipped sleeve is still thin, with protruding wrist bones, as if it can be pinched, and people can realize that the body of the person in front of them is definitely not what he shows healthy.

Thin skin and flesh covered the phalanges, and the knuckles were obvious, but not thick. It might be because of the cold weather, the fingertips and joints were a little red, and the sunlight came in from the window, and the edges of the palms were almost transparent.

After wearing the emerald green ring, the skin on his hands was even more fair, like a piece of fine warm white jade, very beautiful.

Shen Lianxing couldn't help but feel a strange sense of satisfaction from the inside out.

However, he is usually used to covering up his thoughts, even though he is thinking a thousand times, there is no abnormality on his face, he just smiled gently: "It's good that Ah Jin likes it, it's not in vain for me to study for several days."

Not in a hurry.

"My boss—"

At this time, a feeble voice came from outside the window, the voice was very tender and clear, the ending was quite long, as if tired, and there was a little bit of complaint.

"Yuntong is back." Yan Jinping knew who was coming by hearing the voice, turned his head and said with a smile, "How is it at Rongling's place?"

Yun Tong was lying on his cloud, holding the edge of the cloud with both hands, only poking out a small head, floating unsteadily in from the window, staring at Yan Jinping sadly and said: "Boss, so you are back .”

"Don't mention Rong Ling to me!" He angrily hit the clouds twice with his small fist, and the two fluffy clouds flew out of the window, and soon turned into two small clouds in the sky, "She How can there be a conscience! My boss, you came to me, originally just to help her and absorb water for her books, who would have thought that she would be good, I have been there for a month, and I have not been idle!"

Yun Tong's small face was all wrinkled together, and finally seeing the backbone, his previous high-ranking posture was gone, and he told Yan Jinping very painfully about the unscrupulous behavior of the boss of Langhuan Pavilion oppressing poor children: "There are so many books in her building, who can tell which one is which? I'm always asked to help customers find it. I can't find it and I still dislike me-I haven't disliked her for too many things!"

Rong Ling's manpower is really not enough. I recruited a few demon vines to work before, but unfortunately the demon vines are not good at work, and let her eat all the rolls. I am afraid that no new people have been recruited until now, so Yuntong has been working together. Just grab him and squeeze him vigorously.

"Thanks for your hard work." Yan Jinping comforted Yuntong, "I didn't think carefully this time, and I won't let you go to Langhuan Pavilion next time, so go take a rest. I'm not at home these days, and Linlang Pavilion doesn't open at night , you just do your own thing."

Yun Tong straightened up in surprise: "Boss, are you leaving again so soon?"

"Yeah." Yan Jinping said, "it happened suddenly, if you don't have any serious problems these few days... spend more time with Chuizhu and watch Dange, don't let the two of them get too impulsive."

"Chuizhu?" Yun Tong just came back from Langhuan Pavilion and still doesn't know what happened.However, he had keenly sensed something from Yan Jinping's words, so he didn't ask any more questions, "...Understood, you have just returned to my master, if you are going out again soon, you should rest more and make preparations. Linlang Pavilion has I'm watching, it's not going to be a problem."

Although Yuntong looks like a child, but his heart is the most mature in Linlang Pavilion except Yan Jinping, and he has a sense of propriety.Besides, he was quite capable, and he was familiar with Lord Long, so there was nothing to worry about handing Linlang Pavilion over to him.

When Yan Jinping and Shen Lianxing went to the snow-capped mountains, they took the long light belt to take advantage of the Yinbing Road, and they moved very quickly. They went out today and arrived tomorrow.But this way of traveling can’t be used all the time, and the two of them didn’t feel so anxious after they got the clean fire. They came back in the normal way all the way. Apart from tidying up and tidying up things, it's not really a continuous rotation.

"Master." Yun Tong was curious again, and asked Yan Jinping, "Where are you going this time?"

"Catch the nightmare." Yan Jinping said, "Go to Taoyuan."

Taoyuan is just south of Yanjing City.It's not very far away, but this place is special, not everyone can enter it, so no matter which one it is on the map, it will only appear in legends that people are not sure about.

Taoyuan originally had no name, but a mortal strayed into it a long time ago, thinking that he had come to a fairyland.At that time, Taoyuan was the season when peach blossoms were in full bloom. The mortals who entered by mistake were almost fascinated by the peach blossoms all over the sky. After they came out, they wrote stories without authorization and called it "Taoyuan".

In fact, Taoyuan also has peonies, osmanthus twigs, and a wide variety of flowers. Taking peach blossoms alone, it really made Yan Jinping's old friend, the peach blossom demon, proud for a long time.

Of course Yuntong knew about Taoyuan, and also knew that Yan Jinping had a good friend there, his eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said with a smile: "My master wants to find Xiao Taozhi?"

Xiao Taozhi is the name of the peach blossom demon, and Yuntong even knows it.

"That's great!" Yuntong became happy after Yan Jinping nodded, and said to the two of them while floating outside the door, "My sister went to work at Xiaotaozhi 20 years ago. Her name is Yunque. If you When you see her, remember to sing for me."

Yun Tong has a younger sister?

He himself never mentioned it before——Yuntong is erratic on weekdays, and he doesn't chat with other people in Linlang Pavilion very much. Yan Jinping is the one who talks to him the most, but Yan Jinping won't be idle if he doesn't talk about it himself. It's okay to inquire about the stories of other people's homes.

Besides, Linlang Pavilion has only been open for less than 15 years, which sounds very long, and to many spirits, it is just a moment, and it is normal not to remember to mention it.

"Okay." Yan Jinping smiled, "Is she under Xiao Taozhi? What does she do?"

"Singer girl!" Yuntong had already floated out completely, leaving only the last sound, which came leisurely from the corridor into the inner room, "Thank you, master!"