One of the Twelve Kingdoms

"Meatball, are you ready?"

A long-haired girl held up a camera and asked her companion that the girl called Meatball was actually very slender. She tightened her seat belt, because standing on the bungee jumping platform, the wind blowing from all directions made her unable to keep her eyes open.

"Get ready." Facing the camera, Rouyuan explained excitedly, "I'm going to start dancing in a moment, I'm so nervous...By the way, Minglian, let me take a picture of how high our position is. "

The camera slowly moves down, and through the glass floor, you can clearly see the valley and river below. Just looking at it will make people's hairs stand on end.

The staff stood behind the meat ball and began to count: "Three, two, one!"

With a scream, the girl fell from a height.

Minglian was filming the whole process, and suddenly felt that the sky was getting dark, and then she was caught in a gust of wind.

what happened? !

Minglian pulled down and clung to the floor tightly, the iron frame was shaken and creaked, and it was so dark that she couldn't see anything.

It lasted almost a minute before the gust of wind gradually dissipated.Minglian tightly closed her eyes and remained motionless until the staff came to help her up, her limbs were still stiff and her hands and feet were shaking.

"By the way, where is my friend? The meatball is still below!" Minglian hurried to the fence, but there was nothing under the cable, and the girl was nowhere to be seen.

In Qiaozhou State, Xizhou Aoshuang Prefecture Hou's Mansion, Yan Qi was dealing with business when suddenly someone ran in with a happy face.

"Taifu, there is good news!"

The person who came was a subordinate of Yanqi, who had been ordered to patrol around for a hundred years to see if there were any strange things happening, and finally made progress two days ago.

Yan Qi put down the scroll and asked, "What did you find?"

"My subordinates heard that there was an eclipse in the Wanpu area of ​​Yanguo, and they also found a mountain guest."

Hearing this, Yan Qi's golden pupils instantly lit up, and immediately stood up and ran to the door, where the huge firebird appeared as he wished.He jumped on it, made Ling flap his wings, and went straight to the northeast.

After years of running around, Yan Qi is very familiar with every corner. He rushed to the place where the eclipse happened as quickly as possible. The moment he had been waiting for finally arrived.

"Ah, red bird!"

A girl yelled at Yan Qi's mount, and Yan Qi took a look at her clothes and concluded that this was the mountain guest.

"What is this, Suzaku? Or Bi Fang? It has two legs..." As soon as Xi Qi fell to the ground, the girl came over and walked around it curiously. Although she looked disheveled, she probably didn't suffer any injuries.

"Dantu, don't hurt people." Gong Qi saw Yan Qi not far away at a glance, and walked towards Yan Qi after giving instructions.

"Yu Taifu, I knew you would come." Yan Qi also found him, and he looked at Yan Qi with a complicated look.Yanqi was so happy that Joshua was finally able to go home, she didn't notice Yanqi's expression, and asked, "So now we can freely travel between the two worlds again?"

Yanqi hummed sullenly, "But I suggest you better not tell King Gong."

"Why?" Yanqi couldn't understand, in fact Yanqi always seemed to avoid this matter.

"Yontaisuke, is there something you haven't told me?"

Yanqi Mountain's rain-like silence confirmed Yanqi's premonition even more, he didn't even notice his fingers shaking: "Please tell me why I can't tell him, it must not be just the disaster caused by the eclipse."

"It's been more than 100 years, and it's very difficult for ordinary people to live for such a long time. Because your future memory has changed, so only I know about it." Yanqi turned his face away and sighed: "I didn't think so Hurry up, at least it won’t happen until Qiao Kingdom is more stable. In fact, after King Gong returned that day, his parents made a request to me, which I couldn’t refuse.”

Yan Qi held his breath, his mind was confused for two seconds while waiting for the answer, and then quickly became blank.

"King Gong's parents asked me to remove their fairy status. Even if they are still alive, they are as immobile as bears in hibernation." Yanqi's sense of humor didn't help, and Yanqi was stunned in place, It was as if the spirit had left the body.

After a long while, he said deeply: "Yantaifu, please don't let the news of the eclipse spread, and act as if nothing happened." He must not let Joshya know about this, he doesn't know Does it seem like something that should be done, but just out of an instinct to protect Joshya.

"No problem." Yanqi asked someone to bring Shanke, who was still studying Dantu, and asked, "What about this girl?"

Yan Qi looked at the girl and asked, "What's your name?"

"I'm Yuan Rou, what's this place?" Yuan Rou didn't look scared at all, maybe she hasn't recovered from the novelty yet.

Fortunately, there is only one mountain guest, Yan Qi thought a little fortunately, and said to Yuan Ju: "I will send you back as soon as possible, and before that, I will find a place for you to live." Even so, if it is not necessary, Yan Qi will never It would cause another eclipse at the risk of being discovered by Joshua, so he could only hide this person first before making a long-term plan.

"No problem." Yuanrou said flatly.

Yan Qi was very satisfied with her cooperation, looked at her attire and said, "First, please change your clothes."

Out of some scruples, Gong Qi brought Yuanrou back to Qiaoguo and placed him in the Zhouhou Mansion to be guarded by the envoy.Then he breathed a sigh of relief and returned to Shuiyang Temple, but was told by the maid that Joshua was not there.

Probably somewhere to play.Xiong Qi thought, then stayed for a while, and decided to go to Joshya's house first.

When it was dark, Yuan Rou sneaked out from the state capital.The ferocious giant wolf guarding the door made her suspect that the guy with angelic blond hair and golden eyes was actually not a good person, maybe he was a human trafficker who tricked and abducted young girls like her by virtue of his good looks.

In this world, the more you look like a good person, the more you look like a bad person.

Yuanrou is glad that she found it in time, and she still has an invisible watch and a penis on her body.Yuanrou usually loves to travel, and these two things can solve most of the problems, especially at this time.Besides, she finally came to a fun place, so she didn't want to be locked in a room in a daze.

"What are you doing? Is this Hengdian?" Yuanrou looked at the Chinese-style ancient buildings all over the street, secretly dumbfounded. This should be a town center. She turned her head to look at the tall and solemn Zhouhou Mansion behind her, and then ran towards the lights Bright street market.

The night market is very lively, red lanterns are hung everywhere, and everyone is wearing long Hanfu skirts. Yuanrou walked in it and felt as if she had traveled back to ancient times. She took a deep breath, um, the air in ancient times is fresh!

Suddenly a scent wafted into her nostrils, instantly arousing her appetite after a day of hunger.Yuanrou followed the smell, and found something wrong... She smelled like... French fries?

Yuanrou stood at the entrance of the shop where the fragrance was wafting, and looked up at the plaque: "Dorian Gray?" It was still in English, so disrespectful.

Yuanrou looked at the English name that was incompatible with the surroundings, as if she had heard it somewhere.She couldn't help walking in, and the next second, she was completely distracted by the scene in front of her.

This seems to be a bar, which looks like a mysterious and dreamy cave or a coral group. On the stalactite-like ceiling, pieces of beautiful fluorescent lights slowly change colors. When you look closely, you find that it is a transparent jellyfish. Blocked by the partition, the crystal prisms decorated everywhere reflect different halos, which are so beautiful that they are not in the world.

The bar is very quiet, and the guests are sitting around the exquisite log tables and chairs talking softly amidst the light guitar sound like flowing water.Yuan Rou looked at the surrounding decorations, her eyes and mouth were rounded all the way, and she couldn't figure out where this place was.

Let's wait until she is full.Yuanrou came back to her senses, rushed directly to the bar, and asked, "Is there a set menu?"

"What?" The waiter looked at her puzzled, Yuanrou asked again, and then realized that they couldn't understand each other, so they could only stare at each other.

Fortunately, someone rescued her immediately.

"Get this lady a signature set meal."

Yuanrou heard fluent English, turned her head, and saw a foreign boy looking at herself with a smile, and explained: "Are you Asian? They don't understand what you say."

"I'm Chinese, what about you?" Yuanrou complained in her heart that you can understand Chinese and asked me which country I am from, while replying in English.

"I'm British, I don't think I've seen you before, are you new here?"

A trace of vigilance arose in Yuanrou's heart, but looking at the other party's age and well-dressed clothes, it was obvious that she would not be able to cheat and kidnap, after all, she had no money anyway.

"My name is Joshya." The blond boy introduced himself with a harmless smile.

It seems that he is just a regular visitor here.Yuan Rou glanced at the things he ordered, let go of her guard a little, and replied, "I'm Yuan Rou, and I just came here today."

Joshua's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he asked, "Are you alone?"

Yuan Rou hesitated a few times, always feeling that although this boy looked younger than herself, he felt an inexplicable sense of security like an elder. "Yes, to be honest, I don't know how I got here, and my passport is gone. Do you know where the Chinese embassy is?"

"Uh, you probably don't know yet. The situation here is more complicated." When the food was served, Joshua watched Yuanrou gobble it up and fell into deep thought.

After quickly solving the problem of food and clothing, Yuan Rou asked, "Is this place open 24 hours?"

"No, it's going to close in an hour." Joshua noticed that the other party was a little disappointed, and immediately understood what she meant: "But I know the boss very well, and he certainly doesn't mind letting you borrow a cute girl like you." one night."

"Really? That's great!" Yuanrou was overjoyed, and then wondered: "But I don't have money..."

"That's it..." Joshya thought for a while, and said, "How about this, tell me what the world is like now, and I will invite you to live here and be a tour guide for the next few days, okay? ? I haven’t been home for a long time.”

He said it very pitifully, and with those big innocent blue eyes, as a dead face control Yuanrou, he agreed without principle.

In that hour, Yuanrou rambled about everything from the international situation to fashion trends to how much this year’s cabbage costs a catty. By the way, when Joshua said he still had the Apple [-], he scorned him. The old-fashioned, but the other party still listened with gusto, and asked some outdated questions from time to time, which made Yuanrou laugh out loud.

When it was time to say goodbye, Yuanrou had already gotten closer to him, she thanked: "Thank you for the hospitality, if there is a chance, I would like to invite you to my house as a guest."

Joshua was also very happy, he had never been so happy in his life, and readily agreed: "I think there will be a chance soon."

After bidding farewell to Yuanrou, Joshua couldn't wait to return to the palace, and even walked a little briskly.

He called the guards and said, "Go and ask Gong Taifu to come."

"Yes." The guard had just taken two steps and Joshya stopped him again: "Forget it, it's too late, let's go tomorrow morning."

"Did your lord have a good time today?" the guard couldn't help but wondered seeing him smiling all the way.

Joshua nodded, then took out the outdated mobile phone and threw it to him, saying, "I gave it to you."

That night, Joshua was immersed in the happiness of being reunited with his family soon, and fell asleep very late, even in his dreams, he couldn't help laughing out loud.

In the early morning of the next day, Joshya rushed to the Hall of Renzhong and grabbed Yan Qi from the bed.

"Accompany me to meet someone." He pulled Yan Qi, and the hem of his long robe dragged the two of them staggeringly.Joshua's eyes were as bright as morning stars in the morning sun, looking at the unicorn shining brightly: "You will definitely be shocked."

In fact, Yan Qi only came back at the moment when the moon had just set, before he even had time to confirm the existence of that girl.He carefully hugged Joshua to prevent him from falling, and said helplessly, "My lord, at least let me dress neatly, my clothes were torn by you."

The two lowered their heads to each other, their bodies were very close, and there was no hiding place for some subtle changes.One of Joshua's hands moved down viciously, drawing a muffled gasp from the other party, and he licked his lips and said, "Do you feel it? You bad guy."

Yan Qi remained silent, and then pressed his head hard against her.

It was not until the sun was shining brightly in the sky that the two set off from Renzhong Hall, took a ride together and flew straight to Dolinger Ray's Bar.

The bar is not open during the day, Joshua entered through the side door, and the staff who were cleaning and preparing saw him and saluted one after another: "My lord."

"Where's the girl from last night?" Joshya asked.

"She's having breakfast upstairs. I'll ask her to come down."

"No need, I'll go up by myself."

The second floor of the bar is a private space, and Joshya sometimes runs here when he wants to hide from the courtiers.Therefore, according to Joshya's idea, the layout here is extraordinarily westernized and comfortable... well, it is also quite in line with his aesthetics as a century-old gay man.

The heavy wine-red curtains were not opened, Yuan Rou sat on the long dining table, the silver-gray tablecloth and silver candlesticks reflected faint words, she stared blankly at the scones on the plate in front of her, and muttered, " I never thought that even this place could not escape the dark cuisine of the rotten country, what evil did I do..."

At this time, Yan Qi also recognized her immediately, and because Yuan Rou saw him, she immediately jumped up and pointed at him: "It's you?!"

Joshua looked at Yan Qi: "Do you know each other?"

Yan Qi didn't expect that Joshya had already met this girl in just one night, and all his thoughts could only become fantasies.Maybe something is meant to happen.He had no choice but to bow his head and admit: "Well, there was an eclipse in Yanguo Zhuanpu yesterday, I brought this girl back, and I didn't expect to meet the Lord."

Joshua didn't think about why the other party would know before him, maybe he wanted to give himself a surprise, he couldn't wait to ask: "Then when shall we play? I will finish all the work for the next week first. "

"Hey, you guys..." Yuanrou felt that she didn't seem to be able to get in the way.

"He's my boyfriend, so he sounds young." Joshya explained, "Don't worry, I'll play with you for two days first."

Yan Qi agreed absently, and spent the next three days debating whether to tell him the truth, but seeing Joshua's excited and expectant face, he couldn't speak at all.

"Finally I can see my parents and Jonathan again. I don't know if the school is still there. Do you think my parents will jump if they know that they suddenly have a grandson? Maybe they have moved, maybe they can still go Look for Casey's grandchildren and grandchildren." Joshua happily imagined that every happy expression was a torment for Sheng Qi.

But that day will come.They plan to send Yuanrou to meet her friends first, and then go to Joshya's house together.

Yuanrou's friend Minglian still stayed in a tourist attraction in Nepal in search of her traces, and when she saw that she was safe and sound, she hugged her and cried aloud.Yuanrou didn't say anything, and Minglian didn't ask after she realized something.Together they accepted the invitation and came to Joshya's hometown.

London is still not much different from what it was more than 100 years ago. The humid air and gray rainy days gave Joshua a familiar sense of reality.

They soon arrived at Joshya's house. The house seemed to have been renovated, but he could recognize it at a glance whether it was the flowers in the courtyard or the curtains in his own room.But it can still be seen at a glance.Joshua took a deep breath before ringing the doorbell.

"My lord..." Yan Qi hesitated to speak, and then someone opened the door.

"My lord?!" The person behind the door was Bai Hu, who opened his eyes wide as he watched Joshua.

"Baihu!" Joshua went up and gave him a warm hug, "I'm so glad to see you again."

Baihu was hugged by him in a daze, and looked at Yanqi questioningly, who shook his head and sighed silently.

"Okay, where are my parents? And is Jonathan at home?" Joshya walked around the house, touching this and that, and finally looked back at Baihu after a while: "Where are they? Are you Why don't you speak?"

"My lord..." Baihu paused, glanced at Yan Qi before saying, "Your parents and elder brother are gone."

For a full minute, Joshya didn't understand what the white tiger meant.He froze in place, and laughed after two seconds: "Are you playing a prank? They are not mortals, how could they die?"

"My lord, please follow me." Baihu turned and went upstairs, Yanqi stepped forward and hugged Joshya, who followed quickly in a distraught manner, and entered the parents' room with Baihu. Covered with dust cloth, it can be seen that no one has lived in it for a long time.

Baihu lifted the dustproof cloth and opened the drawer, then handed Joshya a thick photo album.Joshua sat down by the window. In the gray sky, he could see the handwritten title on the cover: The Fiennes Family.The photo album is a photo record from the marriage of his parents to the birth and growth of Jonathan and himself.But I don't know from which page I no longer appear, and the other people in the photos are beginning to mature and age, and gradually appear people he doesn't know.

"Jonathan has three children, and this is his first daughter." Baihu explained the baby girl Jonathan was holding in his arms. Joshya whispered, "He likes children very much." Then he pointed to Jonathan and Baihu wearing suits The one in front of the priest exchanging rings asked, "Are you two married?"

"It's just a ceremony, because I don't have an identity and can't register." Bai Hu looked at the photo, and nostalgia appeared in his eyes.

"Although it's a bit late, but congratulations. I didn't expect the church in our town to accept same-sex weddings. It's really good." He had a trembling voice with a forced smile, and then continued to turn pages backwards. It's like watching how a parent walks through his life in a portrait, while he is as powerless as an outsider.

"They're really gone?" Joshya lowered his head and asked in a daze, and Qi Qi silently stood beside him to give silent support. He knew that any comfort to Joshya now was a kind of harm.

"They wrote you a letter, it's on the last page."

Joshua sniffed, rolled his eyes with red eyes, his fingers were trembling, and when he saw the words "Dear Joshua, welcome home" above, he couldn't help but his nose soured, and his tears flowed again. Can't help but drip on the paper.He slammed the photo album shut, and ran out of the gate of Fiennes' house as if fleeing.

"My lord!" Baihu shouted.Yan Qi stopped him and said, "I'll go over and have a look."

Joshua didn't go far, and Yan Qi found him in a nearby grove.He squatted there, crying like a child who lost his favorite toy. He heard the approaching footsteps of Yan Qi, raised his head and poured tears on his face and asked him: "Why can't they wait for me? Why did they abandon me?"

Yan Qi felt a pain in his heart, he didn't want to see the other party crying so sadly, even he couldn't help but want to cry.

"Don't cry, my lord." Gong Qi knelt down, wiping the other party's increasingly ferocious tears as if afraid of being damaged.

"I don't understand, Yuki." Joshya complained, sobbing, "Don't they love me? I waited like an idiot for 100 years for something that didn't even exist."

Yan Qi was silent for a while, then suddenly asked: "Josh, do you still remember Helena?"

Joshua thought for a while while crying, and said, "Remember, what happened to her?"

"She died too." Xi Qi's words made him hiccup suddenly, and he continued while patting her on the back: "After Helena got immortality, everything was fine at first, and her father and younger brother treated him very well. Well, but with Henry's death, her younger brother Freddy got married and had children, and her existence was gradually neglected and isolated by his younger brother's wife and children, thinking that she was the curse of the Vincent family. The conflict between them became more and more serious Big, Helena can only stay in her room and never go out."

Yan Qi's voice dropped, and Joshua looked at him questioningly. He looked at the ants coming and going on the grass, and continued: "Later, a fire broke out at Vincent's house, and Helena disappeared from then on."

"Then how do you know she's dead?"

"She found me and asked me to take back my immortality, and I agreed." Gong Qi lowered her eyes, and that scene flashed before her eyes. Helena lived in a dark and damp basement, her face was as pale as a corpse, but when she regained her freedom of life and death, But it seemed to come back to life suddenly: "She had cancer, and she couldn't live long, but she still couldn't wait, and committed suicide immediately. Before she died, she said that she would not be able to go to heaven."

Joshua didn't speak for a long time, Gong Qi took out the letter and asked, "Do you still read it?" Joshua took it and opened the envelope.

Dear Joshua, when you read this letter, I think we have no chance to meet, but we still decided to keep it, maybe you will see it someday.It must be heartbreaking to know all this, but don't doubt it, we still love you.Oh, by the way, this is our request, don't blame those two cute little unicorns.

You can certainly grieve for us like other bereaved people, but not for too long, and move on with your life, letting smiles replace tears when you think of us now and then.Because this is the most natural thing, when the world no longer belongs to us, we should obey God's arrangement and return to the glory of heaven.We have had a happy life, and so will you, our little Peter Pan.

Always love your dad, mom, and brother.

"I became an orphan..." Joshua murmured, this knowledge washed over his body like a tide, washing his soul.Yan Qi stood quietly with him, until the limbs of his body began to be paralyzed, then Joshua moved and walked home silently.

Yuan Rou and the others already knew about him, and when they saw him coming back, they worried, "Are you okay?" She and her friend glanced at each other, and said, "I think... let's go home first, thank you for your hospitality."

Joshua was taken aback, and said: "I'm sorry, I invited you to play, but it made you sad. I have no problem, your rooms are all arranged, and besides, you promised me to visit your house."

He obviously hasn't recovered yet, Yuan Rou is afraid that he will feel more uncomfortable, so he agrees.Joshua dutifully took the two guests to visit London for three days, only to find that many scenes in memory had quietly changed, or maybe it was just like this.Joshua couldn't tell the difference at all.

Three days later, Joshya and Gongqi bid farewell to Baihu, and then went to China Yuanrou's home.

"You live alone?" Joshya looked at the abnormally narrow room, and Yuan Rou nodded: "I was adopted by my parents. My family is very big, but they died in a car accident a few years ago, so I moved to the Live in a smaller house."

Although Yuan Rou's room was so small that he turned around, it was packed to the brim.Joshua looked at a very conspicuous bookshelf in the living room, the huge size was not commensurate with the surroundings.Inside, a wooden box inlaid with silver patterns caught his attention.

"Ah, don't touch that, it's my great-great-grandfather's relic!" Seeing that he was about to reach for it, Yuanrou rushed over to stop him, and Joshya asked curiously, "What is it?"

"Do you want to see it?" Yuan Rou hesitated, "It's only for one look." She carefully found the key in the bedroom, and when she opened the box, Joshua's eyes widened in shock.

A gorgeous dagger inlaid with gems of various colors was quietly lying on the dark red silk satin, and the exquisite carvings immediately awakened Joshua's memory.This dagger was given to Jonathan by him long ago.

Yuan Rou had already closed the lid when Joshua was still in a daze, she watched the other party's reaction and warned: "I only showed it to you as a friend, don't tell others, I don't want to be murdered by others Life."

Joshua turned his eyes and looked at Yuanrou with a different look, "Don't worry, I'm not a bad person, and I'm not short of money."

Yuan Rou thought for a while and felt relieved: "That's true..."

Yuanrou cooked a sumptuous dinner for them, and Joshya, who was sleeping on the sofa in the living room in the middle of the night, suddenly woke up and found that Qianqi hadn't slept.

"It's still early." Yan Qi whispered, but Joshua couldn't fall asleep, "Let's go back, Yan Qi."

Yan Qi was a little surprised, but he just asked, "Should we bid farewell to them before dawn?"

Joshua shook his head, stood up and opened the window.Gong Qi has transformed into a Qilin and lay down his body. Joshya took a last look at the world he had existed in, then sat on the Qilin sadly, and jumped into the night sky.

Yuanrou who was sleeping soundly felt as if the wind was blowing along with the light, she turned over and seemed to fall asleep.

There was also a flash of light in her dream, like a morning star, like a dream that never seemed to happen.

The author has something to say: It's over! ! ! ! ! !Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !