Doe

Alana became a frequent visitor to Baili Brothers' house, and when it was time for meals, a girl in a red dress would appear at the Baili Brothers' dining table, knocking on the bowls and chopsticks and happily announcing: "I'm here to eat!"

Sometimes she brings her own ingredients, such as mushrooms at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, wild ducks caught in the river, sparrows caught in nets... Baili Jueming felt that their experience of coming to Marsang was too bizarre, and her brother’s original purpose was to read Masang scriptures, looking for a way to forcibly save ghosts.In exchange for treating Masang Wangjun's head wind disease, they let Wang Jun open the door of the scripture hall to them.After coming here for more than a month, my elder brother failed to find a good secret technique from the scriptures, which made him become Alanna's cook.

The elder brother is very good at cooking, he will help out, pluck chicken feathers, pick vegetable leaves, and help wash dishes.Alanna doesn't have to do anything, she just needs to wait for food with an empty stomach.Elder brother doesn't know how to refuse, he never refuses other people's request.It is precisely because of this good temper that the Central Plains Xianmen speak highly of him.Baili Jueming is different, he has always been a loner, living in isolation.When they came to Masang, Wang Jun asked them to live in Wangzhai. Baili Jueming said that he built a small courtyard by the side of the valley for the convenience of collecting herbs.He wanted to open his mouth several times to tell Alanna not to come and eat again.They are not familiar, if he wants to repay his kindness, he has other thanks.However, when he met Alan's bright smile and sparkling eyes, he couldn't say the words of rejection.

"Xiao Ming, what did you want to say just now?" Alan tilted his head.

"..." Baili Jueming was silent for a long time, and said, "Don't call me Xiao Ming, call me another name."

"Hey..." Alan was stunned for a moment.

"Brother, Alanna, let's eat!" Baili Du called them.

Alanna suddenly thought of it, and said with a smile: "Then I will call you brother like A'Du!"

Gradually, Alan didn't stop coming for meals. Early in the morning, before Baili Jueming got up, she heard her chirping.The elder brother asked Alana to help fetch medicine for the patient, taught her to search for medicinal ingredients up and down, weighed them with a delicate and small scale, and wrapped a pair of bitter prescriptions into yellow oiled paper bags.Alan was afraid that others would recognize her, so he covered his face and was busy among the medicinal materials.There are five steps between her and Baili Jueming's small table, and Baili Jueming can see her red skirt just by turning her head slightly.

During that time, Baili Jueming took a longer time to check the pulse than before, but no one noticed except him.

They really became acquainted, from strangers to friends who could talk a lot, although Alana was the one who said a lot.In fact, both Baili Jueming and his elder brother knew that she was not a maid, but a veritable goddess of Marsang.Because in Marsang, such a humble maidservant is not qualified to wear red, Alanna slept for too long and forgot about this obvious loophole.

Compared with the so-called immortal goddess, she looks more like an ignorant girl, with a flushed face when she smiles.She likes to braid her braids into one strand, with a small flower in the tail, changing the color every day.She walks restlessly and always likes to jump up and down.When he jumped up, the braids swung back and forth.Baili Jueming followed her, always keeping a certain distance, otherwise she would be hit by her braid.Her braids are long and must have taken a long time to comb every day.Baili Jueming saw an ivory comb when passing by a street stall, he bought it, but didn't give it away.

In the evening, when the sun was about to set, Baili Jueming cleaned up the dishes at home, and Bailidu took Alanna home.Later, Alan always talked about the sunset at that time, the bright red light smudged the high and low vegetation, and the transparent wings of the long-tailed dragonfly were also dyed the color of rouge.Once she couldn't walk properly again, and raised her hands horizontally, deliberately trying to walk the trunk of the broken log lying in the forest.

Bailidu told her to stop and let her sit on the tree trunk.She was puzzled, not knowing what Bailidu was going to do, but she sat down obediently.Bailidu's gentle tone always had a force that could not be refuted, making people docile and tame.

Bailidu scooped out the water from the stream and cleaned her feet.He wiped the stains on the soles of her feet with his sleeves, the silk material was soft and slippery.Alana felt ashamed for the first time, blushing, as if walking barefoot was a sin.

"What are you doing?" Alana asked softly.

"Put on your shoes." Bailidu took out a pair of shoes and socks from his arms and put them on for her, "Does it fit?"

It was a pair of silk shoes, the style worn by people from the Central Plains. Alan shook his feet, "It fits well, so comfortable. Did you make it?"

"Yeah." Bailidu squatted in front of her and smiled, "It took a lot of work, so Alanna has to wear it every day, and don't run out barefoot anymore. There are so many gravels in the forest, it hurts my feet." Brother is going to scold you again."

"Why do you and brother know everything? You can cook, heal diseases, and make shoes." Alana felt strange, "Aren't you the children of nobles? The nobles of Marsang only know how to eat and drink, just like me .”

"My brother and I came from a humble background. When we were young, we did a lot of work to make a living. Collecting herbs, selling straw sandals, and helping others in the kitchen. Most of what we know now is learned at that time. Brother's female celebrity is very powerful, can't you tell? , he always patched his own clothes casually, but he sewed mine with great care." Bailidu sat down beside her, with a look of reminiscence in his eyes, "I still remember that life was hard before, and even sweets I can’t afford it. Brother likes to eat candy, and he often sucks his fingers and stands beside the candy stand and drools. At that time, I thought, I must be a leader, so that brother can eat sweets. Later we went to Baochen Mountain , the master discovered that our fire technique was innate, and life gradually improved. Our names were entered into the Danyang Baili clan's genealogy, and thus became the descendants of the family from two unknown juniors."

"Oh..." Alanna said, "So you know how to beggar's chicken!"

Bailidu nodded with a smile, "It wasn't a good memory at first. I didn't expect to be able to please Alan. I'm glad that those hard days taught me to cook."

Under the sunlight, his smile was soft and gentle, the past suffering did not make him resentful, but calmed him down, Alana's heart suddenly skipped a beat.She always said later that loving a man starts with pity for him.Although she went on to say that pity made her empathize with a bastard.But at that time, Alanna fell in love with Bailidu, and it seemed that there were many golden bells hidden in his heart. When Bailidu smiled, the bells scrambled to ring.

Alana said loudly: "A'Du, don't worry, if you can't survive in the Central Plains, you can come to me, even if I pick up junk, I will support you!"

Bailidu laughed and shook his shoulders, "Then I will rely on Alanna."

Not long after that, Wangzhai held Panzhaili's coming-of-age ceremony, and Wang Jun invited the Baili brothers as honored guests.In Alanna's capacity, she can sit in the main seat with a big swagger.Because she hated the royal family other than Banjali, she did not want to meet them.But she was greedy for the delicacies at the banquet, especially the roast chicken made by Chef Wangzhai, and Alan, who was sitting alone on the corridor, couldn't resist the intoxicating aroma.

Before the banquet started, she quietly crawled under the altar, behind the seat of Brother Baili.Putting her face to the ground and looking out, through the hanging red cloth, she could see Brother Baili's stool legs.After some boring greetings, she finally looked forward to Bailidu and Baili Cassia.She couldn't see their faces, only their clothes.She stretched out her hand, and her fingers climbed onto the stool leg. She estimated the height of Baili Cassia's back, and poked it with her finger.

"Chicken," she whispered.

After a moment of silence outside, a plate of roast chicken was handed in under the red cloth.

Brother is really reliable, she is very satisfied.

Baili Jueming was constantly being harassed, and he handed over the food and drinks for himself and his brother.The two brothers were hungry and didn't move a chopstick.The elder brother shook his head and smiled wryly, and took out a sugar bag from his sleeve pocket to give him to satisfy his hunger.He really didn't know how a woman could have such a big appetite, and she still clamored every day to avoid eating and lose weight.

After handing over a few times, Baili Jueming decided not to indulge her anymore.Alana poked Baili Cassia in the back several times, but there was still no response from outside.She got angry, reached out her hand again, and pinched Baili Cassia.Through the red cloth, she didn't know where it was twisted, anyway, it was either the waist or the back.

After a while, she heard Baili Jueming's cold voice, "I'm too drunk, so I'll take my leave first."

Hey, how did you go?She realized that she might have done something wrong.

Outside the red cloth, Bailidu's well-defined shadow gradually became clear. He pressed against the cloth and said softly: "Alana, don't mess around."

Alanna finally realized that she made brother angry.Ah Di seemed to have a bad temper and was far away from everyone, but Alan knew that he was a very good person.If he was angry, Alanna must have offended him.She is a goddess who corrects her mistakes when she knows her mistakes. Although she didn't know where her mistakes were, she still went to Baili Jueming to apologize.

"I was wrong, brother." She hung her head with a listless look.

"En." Baili Jueming wrote the medical book without raising his head.He is currently writing the "Lingshu Jing", and his brother said that his acupuncture and medical skills should be passed on to future generations.

Seeing his indifferent attitude, Alanna said discouragedly, "Do you hate me because I'm self-willed?"

"No."

"That's because I eat too much, and you despise me." Alanna said.

Although she did eat too much, Baili Jueming did not dislike her.Looking back, the girl was squatting on the ground with her hands on her knees, looking pitiful.She plays pitifully, and no one can beat her.Baili Jueming sighed, "I don't hate you, nor do I despise you."

Alanna breathed a sigh of relief, lay down on the desk, and whispered to him: "Brother, if you think there is something wrong with me, just tell me and I will change it. That..." Alanna hesitated, His face slowly turned red, "Your brother, please say something nice for me."

Baili Jueming's pen froze, and the ink dripped from the tip of the pen, leaving a dark circle on the paper.

"Why?" he asked.

"Because of me, Alanna," Alanna announced, "if nothing happens, I will be your sister-in-law in the future."

Her air is radiant, she is full of confidence in herself, she believes that Bailidu also likes her, even if he doesn't like her, sooner or later he will fall in love with her.

Baili Jueming was silent for a long time, crumpled up the scroll on the case and discarded it.

"Don't like him."

"Why?" Alana asked.

Baili Jueming lowered his eyes, grinding the ink, and the thick ink reflected his expressionless cheeks.He said: "He is not as good as you think, and none of us is as good as you think."

"What do you mean..." Alan was stunned.

"It's nothing interesting." Baili Jueming put away his pen and ink, got up and walked in, "Have you ever thought that my brother and I are both Marsang's guests, and we will return to the Central Plains sooner or later."

"Maybe A'Du will stay for me." Alan snorted.

He looked back coldly, "Alanna, your liking is too reckless. Brother has great ambitions, and it is absolutely impossible for you to live in a foreign country for you, willing to disappear from everyone, and be an unknown and unkempt pawn. If my prediction is correct , brother will leave Marsang soon."

What he said was correct, before Alanna could react, Baili Du had already come to say goodbye to her.He said that someone in the family had died and he was going home to deal with the funeral.Wang Jun's head wind disease has not healed yet, and Baili Jueming will wait until he fully recovers, so he can stay for a while longer.

Everyone was very reluctant to part with Bailidu, so they came out to see him off, and comforted him with condolences.Only Baili Jueming knew that it wasn't any family members who died, but their teacher, the Grand Master of the Central Plains.They received news last night that several senior brothers were rushing to Baochen Mountain, running around starry night without sleep.

Bailidu said to him: "If brother dies, brother will stay in Masang, and there is no need to go back."

"I'll go back with my brother."

"Between you and me, there is always someone who wants to live." Bailidu rubbed his head, "Don't look distraught, don't you believe your brother so much? If I become a grand master, you will be me." The elders. You and I must cleanse the immortal gate and revive the Taoism."

He knelt down in front of his elder brother on one knee, and said word for word, each word firmly: "My brother's path will be smoothed for my brother."

After his elder brother left, he no longer treated patients, emptied the Xigu courtyard, and returned to live in Wangzhai.He was absent-minded all day long, and so was Alanna, who became uncharacteristically silent, lying on the window sill and looking in the direction of the Central Plains for a long time.Alanna came to Wangzhai every day, curiously stroked the pen and ink used by Bailidu, and learned to write Zhongyuan characters with his Langhao brush. The rice paper was full of crooked "Bailidu".Occasionally, I accidentally fell asleep, and when I woke up, my face was full of tears.Alana also learned to cry.

"Do you like him so much?" Baili Jueming handed her the towel.

"Yeah, I just like it very much." She hugged her knees and rested her pointed chin on them, "Brother, I don't want to be a girl anymore. I want to live a simple and ordinary life with A'Du, and be all husbands and wives." Things that I know how to do. A’Du is in charge of cooking, and I’m in charge of washing dishes. A’Du is drying the sheets, and I’m helping him hold the horns. A’Du is practicing swords, and I’m standing on the side to praise him for his skills. A’Du is reading, and he’s looking at the side on the left. , I'll just look at the side on the right."

Baili Jueming said: "You don't know the characters of the Central Plains. There is no book in the world that has both Chinese characters in the Central Plains and Masang Yuchong script on the other."

"I can learn it, I'm so smart, I'll definitely learn it right away." She showed him the big characters she wrote, all of which were "Bailidu", "Look, how good I am at writing."

The writing is really ugly, Baili Jueming thought, the words he wrote in the mud at the age of four are better than hers.

"Brother, do you think I'm a good match with your brother?" Alanna asked him.

Baili Jueming looked down at her and didn't answer.

"Say it," Alan threatened him ferociously, "don't say anything I don't want to hear!"

"Good match. You are a good match." He finally compromised.

Alan smiled sweetly, "What a coincidence, I think so too."

He wanted to tell her that things were not as rosy as they seemed.Neither he nor Bailidu are worthy of the brilliant Alanna.But at that time, he cared more about Bailidu who didn't know his life and death in the distance. If Bailidu died in the battle for the throne in Baochen Mountain, then there was no need to say anything.In the evening, after Alanna left, the heart lock on the case flickered.After half a month, Baili Jueming finally received a message from Bailidu.

"Brother, are you okay?" His voice trembled.

"Very well, Brother Lao is worried." In Lian Xinsuo was Bailidu's usual laughing voice.

At that time, Bailidu was on Baochen Mountain, blood flowed down the steps, and the mountains were covered with corpses.He drew his sword, thrust it into the throat of his mate, and pulled it out, blood staining his vision.He smiled and said to Lian Xinsuo: "Is there any more candy? You don't want to eat it every day."

"Ok, I know."

He looked back, his enemies were dead, and his fans knelt down to him.People like ants were buried in blood and dust, but he stood alone at the highest point of Baochen Mountain.He looked at the red clouds in the distant mountains, and said: "Brother will clean the gate, and brother can go home."

Baili Jueming waited for a long while holding the Lianxin Lock, and then asked, "Is there anything else?"

Baili Jueming hesitated and said, "You didn't ask Alanna."

"..." Bailidu smiled confusedly, "Why should I ask Alanna? How is she doing recently? She must be very sad that you are leaving."

"She likes you, bro."

The other end was silent for a while, before slowly saying: "There are many people who hate me, and there are also many people who like me. I can't kill them one by one, and I can't thank them one by one. Brother, what's wrong with you?"

This is the real Bailidu, Baili Jue Ming knows it, but Alanna doesn't.Brother was nice to everyone, but he never really loved anyone.He can kill people with the warmest smile, those people can't believe that his sword is so cold until they die.The two brothers have gone from being two straws that anyone could trample to death to being over [-] people today, not relying on the one-in-a-million innate fire skills, but a heart as cold as iron.

"However..." Lian Xinsuo said again, "If Alanna is willing to come to the Central Plains, I will personally welcome her. Compared with the women with ulterior motives who come from the Immortal Gate, at least we don't have to be wary of Alanna."

"No need, she won't come." Baili Jueming cut off the flow of spiritual power.

After finishing his chores, he decided to set off for the Central Plains.Alanna squatted on the edge of the threshold to watch him pack his luggage, teardrops fell on the floor like broken threads.While folding clothes, Baili Jueming said, "Forget about brother. You are not suitable to marry him, and you are not suitable to go to the Central Plains either."

"Why isn't it suitable? When A'Du and I were together, we were both very happy." She cried out of breath, "It's because you hate me, you always think I eat too much. I won't eat anymore , can't you?"

"..." Baili Jueming's eyes were blackened by her anger, and he tried his best to calm down, and said, "Of all the villains in the world, my brother and I must be second to none. You hate the Marsang royal family because they are arrogant Disrespectful, fighting each other, full of killing and blood. Why not in the Central Plains? Alanna, listen carefully, my brother and I have killed people and buried the corpses together. We have never been good people. He will go back this time and hug Half of the people in Chenshan died under his sword. Our fellow disciples, wives, children and family members will never leave behind."

He has always been reluctant to mention these dirty things, not because he is afraid to face them, but because he is afraid that Alana will know that they are actually two vicious thieves who have skinned the nobles of the family.

Alana stared at him blankly.

"You should stay in your glazed pagoda and be a pure and kind celestial girl. Don't touch the blood and dust outside." Baili Jueming carried the burden on his back, "I'm leaving."

Alan watched his back disappear down the single-plank stairs, she was stunned, her mind was in a mess.Sleeping and waking up for thousands of years, the day and night in the glazed pagoda remain unchanged, and the setting sun shines into the window at the same angle every year. She squats in the sun streaks and counts the dust flying like midges.She has long been tired of the same day after day.

She experienced love and love for the first time, walking side by side with A'Du under the glazed pagoda, A'Du cleaned her feet and put on beautiful silk shoes.Looking at the shoes on her feet, she couldn't hold back the tears, dripping on the shoe surface, fainting into wet marks like copper coins.She remembered the last goddess, the woman who always accused her of picking up the trash, but she picked up a boy who was injured by an arrow.He could play the flute, and after playing for a month, she ran away with him, and never heard from her again.It doesn't matter, if she leaves, Tianyin will choose someone else to be her daughter.Maybe in another 1000 years, the goddess will run away again.

She doesn't care what is suitable or not, as long as she loves each other.

So she lifted her skirt and walked down the stairs quickly.The sound of opening and closing the gate of Wangzhai came, and Baili Cassia had already left Wangzhai.It's too late, it's going to be too late!With a sigh of relief, she ran towards the third floor with tears in her eyes.She knew that the arrow rest was outside the scripture hall window, facing the distant Central Plains.She was running, red silk and black hair flying together.She doesn't want to be a girl anymore, she wants to let go of her stomach and eat, and don't worry about getting fat anymore.She wants to leave Marsang, go to the Central Plains, and see the world beyond the Liuli Pagoda.

She climbed out of the window, took off her shoes, and stepped on the wall of the arrow rest with her bare feet.The moss rubbed against the soles of her feet, making them wet and soft.

She saw Baili Cassia, who was riding a horse outside the gate of the village, his black clothes were like a stroke of ink, solitary imprinted into the emerald green landscape.

"Brother," Alana beckoned to him, "I've made up my mind, I want to go with you. I don't want to live in the tower anymore, I don't want to sleep forever. I don't want to be a goddess, I want Find my sweetheart! I want to marry him and have children, and I want to be an ordinary mortal!"

Baili Jueming heard the voice and raised his head, his heart almost stopped at that moment.Alanna was facing the wind, like a kite that was about to be blown away.Behind her, countless people poked their heads out of the window, shouting her name loudly, telling her to go back.She turned a deaf ear, raised her hands flat, and walked out on the narrow earth wall of the arrow rest.

"Alana, you're crazy!" Baili Jue's eyes were tearing open, "Go back!"

"I'm not going back." She yelled, "Brother Cassia, catch me!"

"Don't jump!" Baili Jueming roared.

Alanna turned her back, covered her face, and fell back.crazy?Are you scared?She didn't know anything, the wind was blowing in her ears, and she felt like a red bird, flapping her wings and flying to the sky.Two hands were stretched out from under her body, and she fell into Baili Jueming's embrace.Baili Jueming stepped on the wall of the village and jumped up, caught her and landed firmly on the ground.

"You crazy woman," he gritted his teeth, "you will regret today's decision in the future."

"If you regret it, you will regret it, I'm not afraid!" She was extremely stubborn and never turned back.

"Okay," Baili Jueming took a deep breath, "I'll take you away."