Bai Yujing

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The visitor laughed at Yan Yan, before seeing Lin Yan, he opened his mouth, "It's a great honor for me, the Third Highness has not seen anyone for thousands of years, yet I got this first honor.

"Brother Linhuai." He greeted him as he did when he was a child.

Lin Huai sat across from him familiarly, his eyes fell on the black veil that bound his eyes, and he split it instantly. He took off a jade pendant from his waist and handed it to Zijin, "I heard that His Highness is safe and sound, thanks to you."

Zijin was stunned for a moment, but Lin Yan smiled and said: "Mr. Linhuai has good things in his hands, so hurry up and take them."

It is indeed the friendship of childhood sweethearts.

Zijin didn't refuse any more, took the jade pendant, and left wisely, leaving space for the two reunited after a long absence.

Lin Yan watched him leave, then turned to Lin Huai and said, "He has a gift, why don't I have one?"

"I've been thinking about giving you something on the way here, but now I have inspiration."

As soon as Linhuai stretched out his hand, countless bamboo sticks appeared in his palm. This is a starting gesture of the wood-type spell, but Linhuai didn't want to cast a spell, but just touched the stick, and his ten fingers turned up and down as fast as lightning. , a wooden circle with intricate patterns appeared in his hand, and when he hooked his hand, the black gauze from Lin Yan's eyes fell off and wrapped around the wooden circle, and he put the formed hat on Lin Yan's head, black The gauze just covered the face.

"This is called a curtain hat in the world, and knights in the Jianghu always love to wear it."

Lin Yan pulled the veil in front of his eyes, "Why?"

"Because of the mystery."

Lin Yan was amused, "Then I am also a knight."

None of them mentioned those too painful memories, as if a veil could block all the darkness behind them.In the end, Lin Huai patted Lin Yan on the shoulder, "Do you want to accompany you to the world to relax, brother?"

"I don't want to go."

"I heard that there is a blessed place in the world called Changsheng Town. At night, there are lanterns flowing in the water, and there are stilted buildings hanging on the water and huge ginkgo trees with thousands of years. Would you like to go and see it?"

"Eternal Life Town?" Lin Yan was stunned. "Speaking of which, I have a friend who is a ginkgo tree named Changsheng... After so many years, I don't know what happened to him."

"Oh?" Lin Huai raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Even if it is so predestined, then His Highness should go to relax."

"Let's go then?" He glanced at Linhuai, who made a gesture of invitation, and the two walked out of the palace gate, with Zijin behind him finally heaving a sigh of relief.It has been hundreds of years, and finally someone can untie His Highness's heart knot a little bit. No wonder the Emperor of Heaven called Linhuai back this time and let him rest well in Baiyujing. Your Highness.

"What dynasty is it in the world now?" Lin Yan asked.

"The Liang Dynasty was unified," Lin Huai said, "The Twelve Kingdoms have been in chaos for a long time, and finally they are at peace."

"Before the Twelve Kingdoms, was it Southern Chen and Northern Zhou?"

Lin Huai nodded, "The Longevity Town is built on a ginkgo tree whose age cannot be tested. According to legend, that ancient tree once grew in the ancestral hall of a prime minister surnamed Su in Nanchen."

"Now the ancestral hall is gone?" While speaking, he has already arrived in the world.

Lin Huai shook his head and said, "I've never been here before, so I don't know." He tilted his head and asked Lin Yan, "Have you ever seen an ancestral hall here?"

The town in front of him was full of traffic and extremely lively, with lanterns and festoons everywhere, dragon and lion dancers, and lantern riddles guessers. Only then did Lin Yan realize that today is the Lantern Festival in the world.

It doesn't look like it used to anymore.

"It used to be," Lin Yan said, "I've also met Prime Minister Su, who is indeed an extraordinary talent."

"It's a pity that the red dust in the world is rolling, and it is forgotten in passing years. No matter how famous it is in history, it will eventually be ashes to ashes and dust to dust."

Feeling so emotional, the two stepped into the crowd, and as the evening darkened, they played a few rounds of games, watched the performers perform tricks, and bought some exquisitely made Lantern Festival from the girls and women. , but the stomach is warm after eating.

Walking in front of the lamp seller, the shrewd peddler glanced at the two of them, then took a look at their clothes, and pulled Lin Huai and Lin Yan to the corner, "You two gentlemen, I have Nice stuff."

"What good thing?" Lin Huai asked, folded his arms.

The peddler took out a colored lantern that seemed to be made of glass, which was extremely gorgeous, "This thing is called a glazed lantern, and it is used by immortal cultivators. It can be used to make wishes. If it doesn't work, you will be compensated for it!"

Naturally, Lin Huai had seen a real glazed lamp, and when he heard the words, he smiled lightly, but didn't expose it. He was trying to figure out how to tease the deceitful peddler, but found that Lin Yan's expression was a little off.

He hurriedly grabbed Lin Yan's sleeve, said to the peddler, "Let's go", then turned to Lin Yan and said, "We're looking at other places, there must be better looking ones."

Lin Yan stood there, stunned for a long time, then took out a piece of silver from his purse and handed it to the peddler, "I want it."

Holding the fake glazed lamp he bought at a high price, he didn't speak a word along the way, Linhuai could only sigh in a low voice when he saw this, and changed the topic: "Look, everyone is walking this way, let's go and have a look too ?”

Lin Yan nodded very quietly, and followed him along the stream of people, only to find that an open ground was covered with small benches, with people sitting on them, and many parents lifted their children up high. On the stage, someone is singing.

Obviously, most people bring their own benches. Fortunately, this place is very good at doing business. Lin Yan and Lin Huaifu stood for a while, then came over with clever eyes, pointed to the restaurant next to them and said, "Both You can go to the private room upstairs, and you can also see the stage and the longevity tree."

"Longevity Tree?" Lin Yan was stunned for a moment, only to realize that behind the stage was a towering tree, covered with red silk, and its branches were thicker than he had seen before. The beauty of the luxuriant branches and leaves is missing on the shoots, and only dead branches remain.

People in the town probably didn't dare to hang colorful lanterns on the trees, for fear of inadvertently burning the "Master", so they wrapped them with colorful silks and satins. Unfortunately, it was getting late and they couldn't see clearly.

Lin Yan looked at the tree with some regret, but he was thinking in his heart, if Changsheng knew that he was now called "Master Changsheng", he didn't know how he would feel.

But the soliciting shop waiter would have misunderstood, "The nobleman hung a red silk and jade plaque on that tree, and now you are here to fulfill your wish? It's getting dark now, you must not be able to find that plaque, don't worry," He introduced himself loudly and said, "I'll look for it for you. My eyes are so bright. People nicknamed me 'Thousand Miles Eagle'. I can see even a thousand miles away..."

"Too many years have passed," Lin Yan shook his head, "It should have disappeared long ago."

"Don't be afraid, we have been able to find it for you for many years, you have to believe in my ability of the Thousand Miles Eagle," he boasted without any guilt: "If I can't find it, I will never charge you money, how about it?"

"Since you have hung up on it, just ask him to look for it." Linhuai didn't know what happened, so he took the money to the little girl and said to him, "Just look for it, it's okay if you can't find it."

"Hey - we must do our best," the waiter accepted the money with a smile on his face, and hurriedly asked Lin Yan, "What is written on your sign?"

"It's a piece of red silk." Through the branches of the tree, Lin Yan looked at the extremely bright moon above the layers of clouds.

"It says Shi Tianqing on one side."

The little girl listened carefully, never realizing that Linhuai's face changed suddenly, but no matter how much he regretted it, he couldn't stop Lin Yan from continuing:

"The other side says... Bimu."

"Come on! Let's look for it now!" After saying that, the waiter in the shop disappeared into the night like a monkey in an instant, and jumped up the tree.

Linhuai: "Shi Tianqing..."

Lin Yan tilted his head and said, "It's Qing Mi."

Lin Huai sighed in a low voice regretfully, "Your Highness..."

"It's okay." Lin Yan raised his head and smiled at him, the glazed lamp in his arms was bright and radiant, even through the green veil of the veil, it still illuminated his face in the night.

He was not worried that the handwriting would not be readable. The words printed by the gods with spiritual power pens and inks would not decay for thousands of years, and the red silk was covered with a layer of spiritual power seals, so it was not so easy to damage.

It's just that after so many years, the red silk on it may have been replaced countless times, or it was blown and rained and fell to the ground, or it was taken away and cleaned up by someone, and the possibility of loss is extremely high.

Just thinking like this, the nimble waiter came back in a few strides, and Lin Yan saw the red silk in his hand at a glance, "What do you think, we really found it."

Lin Yan's eyes trembled, and he gently raised his hand to grab the red silk. Thanks to his spiritual power protection, the red silk has lost all its color in the past thousand years, leaving only a little mottled and very light. Only the name printed on the ink mark is still clear.

"Your honor is really lucky," the little girl thought about saying some nice words to ask for rewards, "that's the only ribbon left on the tree that has fallen to such a color, even the ones that are much brighter than this are lost." , this one is still firmly tied to the branch, as if someone is protecting it, and the couple on the red silk will surely be deeply in love with each other and live forever—”

"But he's dead." Lin Yan said suddenly.

The little girl was stunned, "Huh?"

Lin Yan turned the red silk from the side of "Shi Tianqing" to the side of "Bimu", pointed to the name, and said to Xiao Er: "And he killed it."

Hearing the words, the little girl suddenly looked at Lin Yan with a little more fear, as if they were about to fight, but Lin Yan smiled, "I scared you."

Xiao Er hurriedly supported his heart, "Master, don't scare the little ones, the little ones are timid. In the past, the witch at the entrance of the village always said that there are ghosts in the town, which scared me many times. Please don't scare me."

Lin Yan handed him the silver ingot in his purse, "I'm sorry, thank you very much this time, these two people are really in love with each other forever as you said, just feel at ease."

After receiving the extra silver ingots, Xiaoer looked down, and his face was full of joy again. He asked the two of them if they were going to the private seat, and after getting a negative answer, he cupped his hands, thank you very much away.

On the contrary, Linhuai's expression became more and more complicated. He watched Lin Yanzai carefully fold up the red silk and put it into his arms, but finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Have you regretted it?"

"If I could go back to that time and I was still the same person I was then, I would definitely do it again."

"All chances and coincidences are predestined by fate. Since everything happened is inevitable," Lin Yan looked down at the lantern, "how can there be any regrets?"