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During the 5 years since Bai Lian entered Fengdu, he met Jiang Weiyan, the Tenth Highness, for the first time.

That day should be late summer and early autumn, and he finished drinking the cold water lychee paste at Po Meng's place.Po Meng was making soup, and he was sitting beside him reading a book.

Baili Eucalyptus smelled a bit of bitterness, raised its head from the book, and asked, "Mother-in-law, why does today's soup smell more bitter than yesterday's?"

Granny Meng added medicinal ingredients to the soup, "The dead souls that Xiao Ten brought tonight had a very bitter life. This soup is mixed with their memories, so it's a bit bitter."

"Why does the Tenth Highness always receive the dead souls who are suffering? But tonight, black and white impermanence will send the dead souls into reincarnation for you?"

Bai Lian has been in Fengdu for so long, but he has never seen Jiang Weiyan.Occasionally he would hear Wang Chuan and Nai He talking about how many dead souls the Tenth Highness had taken and what flowers he had planted in the yard today...

He was always listening from the sidelines, feeling that the Tenth Highness seemed very mysterious.

Meng Po: "Maybe I'm free today, so let's bring the soul of the dead here."

Bai Lian didn't care much, nodded and continued to read.

After nightfall, there is always a strong chill at the head of the Naihe Bridge. The flowers on the other side are as red as blood, and the mist is lingering on the bridge. At the end of the bridge is Eucalyptus thyme.

He carried a guiding light, and the lights flickered on and off, not dazzlingly bright, but it looked like a layer of light golden mist had enveloped him.

As soon as the hour passed, Bai Lian saw someone appearing on the bridge, the sky was dark, and through the mist, he could only vaguely make out his figure.

Bai Lian raised his hand to brush away the mist in front of him, but it didn't do much, but he felt that he could see more clearly.

He watched that person walking towards him step by step, and there were a lot of dead souls behind him, but there seemed to be only one person in his eyes.

His heart seemed to be stabbed by something suddenly, and he was in a daze for a while.

So much so that when Jiang Weiyan was already standing in front of him, he still stood there without moving.

Jiang Weiyan snapped his fingers in front of Baili'an, "Young master?"

Bai Lian came back to his senses, blinked his eyes, "What?"

"Come to pick me up?" Jiang Weiyan looked at the guiding light in his hand, and asked with a smile, "Why isn't Naihe waiting for me here today?"

Bai Lian straightened his expression, "He has something to do, I'll take his place."

"That's it." Jiang Weiyan said, "Then let's go, young master."

Baili Eucalyptus took them to Meng Po.

Bi An was helping Meng Po to serve Meng Po soup, and when she saw Jiang Weiyan, she called out "Tenth Highness".

Only then did Bai Lian realize that this person was the Tenth Highness of Fengdu——Jiang Weiyan.

He unconsciously kept glancing at Jiang Weiyan, who felt the scorching gaze, turned his head, and quickly caught Bai Lian looking away.

Jiang Weiyan saw Baili An rubbing the tip of his nose, turned around and walked to the flowers on the other side, then squatted down with his back to him, almost buried in the flowers.

It was like a small white mushroom growing out of the flowers.

Jiang Weiyan couldn't help laughing.

All the dead souls have been sent into reincarnation, Jiang Weiyan was about to leave with the extinguished coffin lamp, but suddenly stopped.He glanced at the flowers on the other side, turned around and walked over.

Jiang Weiyan bent down, stretched out his fingers and tapped Baili'an's ear lightly, tilted his head and asked him with a smile, "Why are you squatting here alone?"

Startled, Bai Lian turned her head and looked up at him, without speaking.

"Aren't you going to send me out?" Jiang Weiyan said again.

Bai Lian recalled that the other highnesses seemed to have gone back by themselves before, and he asked puzzledly: "Do I need to send you out?"

Jiang Weiyan also squatted down, put his arms on his knees, looked at him, "Don't you need it?"

"Naihe didn't tell me."

"You led me here from the end of Naihe Bridge, so you don't have to be responsible for taking me out? I don't know the way."

"..."

Bai Lian felt that this person was just looking for trouble.

He got up to show Jiang Weiyan the way, "Go straight to the east and you will reach the Naihe Bridge, please don't tell me that you don't know the way when you reach the Naihe Bridge, Your Highness the Tenth Highness?"

"Ah." Jiang Weiyan sighed, and reached out to grab Baili's sleeve to get up.

Bai Lian subconsciously grabbed his wrist with his backhand and pulled him up vigorously.

He suddenly reacted, quickly let go of his hand, and took a few steps back.

"?" Jiang Weiyan frowned, and asked, "Am I some kind of scourge? I want to jump ten meters away if I touch it?"

"How could it be?" Bai Lian laughed, thinking why didn't this person leave?

"I'm leaving." Jiang Weiyan seemed to have heard his voice, raised the coffin lamp, turned around and left.

After a few seconds, Bai Lian felt that he was too naive.

He saw Jiang Weiyan walk a few steps and turned back, "Are you really not going to send it off?"

"..."

Before waiting for Bai Lian's reply, he continued to take two steps forward, and then turned around, "Are you really not going to send it?"

Bai Lian took a deep breath, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said, "I'll send it."

Jiang Weiyan smiled triumphantly.

The road was not long, Baili An deliberately walked faster, but Jiang Weiyan paced slowly behind.He would stop and wait as he walked.

After Jiang Weiyan followed, he lifted his foot to leave, but Jiang Weiyan grabbed his sleeve again.He said, "Young master, I still don't know your name?"

Baili An looked down at his hand, then raised his eyes to look at him, and replied, "The surname is Baili, and the single name is An."

"Bai, Li, Eucalyptus." Jiang Weiyan read his name and said with a smile, "I remember."

He let go and walked forward.

The two walked quietly all the way to the Naihe Bridge, Jiang Weiyan suddenly stopped and turned to Bai Lian, asking, "Will you come to pick me up next time?"

"Huh?" Baili Eucalyptus didn't understand.

"What I mean is, if I bring the soul of the dead to the Naihe Bridge in the future, you will pick me up, is that okay?"

Bai Lian looked at him, with a little starlight in his eyes, "Why?"

Under the bridge is the subtle sound of Wangchuan water flowing, and the soul-inducing lamps along the road are not as bright as before, and the contours of people's facial features are blurred.

Jiang Weiyan suddenly felt that he should have seen this person before him.

More than once, it should be seen all the time.

Heartbeats don't lie.

"Because I seem to like you, so I want to see you more."

Bai Lian froze on the spot, "What did you say?"

Jiang Weiyan: "I don't know why, but this seems to be the first time I've been tempted in 800 years."

"But it's the first time that His Royal Highness and I have met..." Bai Lian felt extremely incredible.

"Where is the rule saying that you can't like it when you meet for the first time?"

"...the rules here."

"Okay, then the rule here is how many times do you meet before you can like you?" He approached Bai Lian and laughed softly, "I'll count it time and time again."

"..." Baili An turned his head and ran away, "His Tenth Highness, please walk slowly, I won't see you off."

Jiang Weiyan looked at his flustered back and thought it was so cute.

My heart seems to be beating faster again.

***

After that day, Bai Lian felt that the number of times he saw Jiang Weiyan had increased significantly.

He ignored what Jiang Weiyan said, and went to pick him up every time, but he would still take his place when something happened.So he would hear Jiang Weiyan counting how many times he didn't come to pick him up.

But Jiang Weiyan didn't say "like him" again, and over time, Bai Lian thought that he was out of his mind that day and talked nonsense.

What really changed their lukewarm relationship was the day of Frost's Descent 300 years later.

That day Baili Eucalyptus was taken by Jiang Weiyan to the mortal world to collect his soul.

This is the first time he has returned to the mortal world in the hundreds of years since he entered Fengdu.

I have been in Fengdu for a long time, and I have forgotten that the mortal world is like this.Every place is a little more smokey than Feng.

He followed Jiang Weiyan to several places, Jiang Weiyan taught him how to collect the soul, and he learned it seriously.

The last time they landed in Yangzhou.

The dead soul is the son of a large family in Yangzhou. In order to make his son's reincarnation go better, his father specially hired a Taoist priest to send him off.

Jiang Weiyan and Baili Eucalyptus sat on the eaves in hiding.

The sound of suona, gongs and drums made Baili Eucalyptus's ears hurt.

He saw the young master's soul floating in mid-air, watching the Taoist perform the ritual with a dull expression, maybe he didn't know why he had to be tortured like this after death.

If Taoist methods are useful, Fengdu will have to do something.

Bai Lian looked at the Taoist priest who started to dance the Great God, and the corners of his mouth trembled uncontrollably.He punched Jiang Weiyan with his elbow, and asked in a low voice, "When I extradited the souls of the dead, didn't you do that?"

Jiang Weiyan suppressed a smile: "No, your movements are much prettier than his."

"..."

Jiang Weiyan stopped teasing him, he got up and looked at the moon, and said: "It's the south direction, it's time to collect the soul."

After speaking, he remembered that Baili Eucalyptus was not familiar with the north and south directions, so he turned his head and asked him, "Do you know where the south is?"

"..." Bai Lian was speechless for a moment, raised his hand and threw out a black mist, "Xiao Hei, where is the south?"

Hei Wu understood his words and floated to the right of Baili Eucalyptus.

Baili Eucalyptus turned around following the black mist, and just ran into Jiang Weiyan's arms.

Jiang Weiyan laughed, "Why are you still leaning on people?"

"...Sorry." Bai Lian stepped back two steps, jumped off the eaves, and stood still on the south side.

Seeing them, the ghost seemed very happy, "Are you here to take me away? Hurry up, I'm dying from hearing that... No, I was already dead..."

Baili Eucalyptus opened the "deceased bottle", turned his fingertips and waved his palm, and the dead soul was put into the bottle.

"Get rid of the filth..." The Taoist priest was still thinking.

He was about to put away the porcelain vase when Jiang Weiyan hugged him suddenly.

Then he heard Jiang Weiyan snort.

Taoist priests are somewhat capable, and their methods are not fooling people.Just now with a sweep of dust, spells can indeed hurt people.

Bai Lian's attention was all on the porcelain bottle, and since he didn't have much cultivation, he would definitely be seriously injured by that spell.

But for Jiang Weiyan, it's not a big problem. At most, he bleeds a little, and he will be healed within two days.

But when he saw Bai Lian's anxious expression, he suddenly had a new idea.

"Jiang Weiyan, how are you?" Bai Lian saw the blood on the clothes behind him, and said in a panic, "Bleeding, what should I do?"

"It really hurts..." Jiang Weiyan felt the pain like a mosquito bite, twisted his face and started talking nonsense, "If this Taoist strikes hard, I will be blown away."

Bai Lian frowned and patted him, "Shut up!"

"I'm already like this and you still hit me?" Jiang Weiyan covered his heart, and fell forward on Baili'an, "Oh, I have no strength."

Bai Lian supported him, and quickly threw out the black mist, "Let's go back to Fengdu."

Jiang Weiyan was half-supported and half-carried by him back to the tenth hall bedroom. He lay on the bed and watched Bai Lian pacing back and forth there.

"How to cure this? Do I need to find someone else?"

Seeing that he was anxious for himself, Jiang Weiyan was overjoyed. He pointed to the cabinet next to the bookshelf, "There is a box of plaster over there, just apply some plaster."

In fact, this wound can heal without medicine.

But he seemed a little guilty looking at Bai Lian, so after thinking about it, he might as well coax him.

Thyme found the plaster and handed it to him.

"?" Jiang Weiyan looked at the plaster box in front of him, then at Baili Eucalyptus, and then pointed to his back, "Do you think I can apply the medicine myself?"

"..." It seems impossible.

"Then I'll help you." Bai Lian sat on the edge of the bed, his hands were already on the collar of Jiang Weiyan's clothes, and his fingers suddenly stopped.

Seeing his hesitation, Jiang Weiyan sat up and took off his shirt, then lay back on his stomach, "Take the medicine."

"Oh." Bai Lian wiped off the blood with a clean veil, dug a little plaster on the wound with his fingertips, and spread it gently.

The wound was very long, extending from the right shoulder blade to the left waist, and it hurt just looking at it.Seeing that Jiang Weiyan was trembling a little, he thoughtfully said: "If you feel hurt, just call out, I won't laugh at you."

Jiang Weiyan held back his laughter and wailed a few times on purpose, "Little ancestor, be gentle."

"I'm sorry." Baili Eucalyptus moved lightly, carefully administering the medicine to Jiang Weiyan little by little.

Because of this time's kindness, Baili'an can be said to be obedient to Jiang Weiyan.

Jiang Weiyan said that the medicine had to be applied ten times, so he came to help him apply the medicine every day until the injury was healed.

Jiang Weiyan wanted to go to the courtyard to see the flowers, but he let him hold his hand and go to the courtyard.

According to human calculations, it is already late autumn, but there are no four seasons in Feng, and all the flowers in the yard are still blooming beautifully.

Baili Eucalyptus couldn't move his eyes when he first saw the snow mountain rose that covered half of the red wall.

So much so that when he went back and passed the ten halls, he would lie on the wall and take a few more glances.

During Jiang Weiyan's "rehabilitation" period, it was the first time since they met each other that they sat down and had a good chat.

In a few days, Bai Lian discovered that the Tenth Highness was actually quite a nice person.

***

The day of the winter solstice happened to be the first day that Bai Lian served as His Highness the Eleventh Highness of Fengdu.

He got the book of death as he wished. Although he couldn't remember who he was looking for, he still had a clue.

His mansion is very close to the ten halls, so Jiang Weiyan always loves to come to his mansion.

Especially when he was planting flowers, Jiang Weiyan relied on himself to plant flowers all over the yard, brazenly saying that no one in Feng knew how to plant flowers better than him, and forced him to stay in the Eleventh Hall to help the Eucalyptus plant flowers.

After all the flowers were planted, Jiang Weiyan said he wanted to see how the flowers were growing.

After the flowers bloomed, he came to fold the flowers again.

Baili Eucalyptus found that this person always had endless reasons.

So he also went to the ten halls to fold his flowers.

He has coveted that half wall rose for a long time.

The sunset that day was very soft, sprinkled on the snow mountain roses like gold.Eucalyptus thyme stood in front of the flower wall, getting very close, carefully picking the most beautiful one.

Jiang Weiyan saw such a scene when he returned home.

He walked lightly to the back of Baili'an, and Baili's picking rose was so absorbed that he didn't realize that there was someone standing behind him for a moment.

Just as he was about to pluck off one, Jiang Weiyan reached out and tapped his ear.

"!" Bai Lian was startled, turned around suddenly, staggered and fell forward.

Jiang Weiyan put his arms around his waist and fell down.

Then he felt something brush the corner of his mouth.

Baili eucalyptus fell on top of him, her chin resting on Jiang Weiyan's shoulder.

He turned his head, just as Jiang Weiyan was also looking sideways at him, his lips touched Jiang Weiyan's again.

For a moment, both of them froze in place.

Heartbeats stacked together, deafening.

Bai Lian reacted first, stood up quickly, straightened his robe, the flowers were not broken, and prepared to escape.

Jiang Weiyan stopped him, "Eleventh, I was kissed for nothing by you, you want to run away now? Don't you want to give me an explanation?"

"Sorry, if you're not careful, just forget about it." Bai Lian raised his hand to his forehead.

"Then I'm not at a loss?" Jiang Weiyan raised the corners of his mouth and pressed him step by step, "I have to get it back, right?"

"what?"

Jiang Weiyan wiped the corner of Baili's mouth with his thumb, then bowed his head and kissed it.

Bai Lian's eyes widened and he was stunned.

And Jiang Weiyan kissed gradually harder, Bai Liyan closed his eyes unconsciously, his mind was in chaos, and he backed away again and again after being kissed.

His body touched the rose, and he was afraid that it would be crushed, so his lips parted a little, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Flowers..."

Jiang Weiyan opened his eyelids and looked up at the roses behind him, knowing that Baili Eucalyptus loves these flowers.

So he wrapped his arms around Bai Lian's waist, brought her into his arms, and continued to kiss her tightly.

The lips and tongue were entangled, and Baili Eucalyptus was kissed so hard that he could hardly breathe, and the numbness slowly climbed up his spine.

A gust of breeze blew across Thyme's eyelids, making it itchy, and Thyme woke up suddenly.

He pushed Jiang Weiyan away.

Bai Lian gasped, and met Shang Jiang Weiyan's gaze, "Did you get it back?"

Jiang Weiyan looked at him, but didn't speak.

"Farewell." Bai Lian hurriedly left the backyard.

The sky slowly darkened, and the sky in the distance was blushing.

That night, no one fell asleep.

They don't know how to define this kiss.

So neither of them mentioned the kiss again.

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This concludes the story of Yanyan and Eucalyptus!They will spend many, many years together, and there will be countless springs, summers, autumns and winters.

As Yan Yan said, in the future they will always be able to drink freshly picked tea, see white pears blooming in the best season, and have many, many spring days of leisure and laziness.

Not only spring, but also Huaixia, Jiuqiu, and midwinter. No matter how the four seasons rotate, every day of them is a different "spring".