[Donggong Derivatives] see you again

He helped me to sit in the carriage, and the wheels turned and bumped to the outside of the palace.

Li Cheng Yin looked at me: "It's just the two of us tonight, none of them came, I will accompany you to whatever you want."

His body wobbled, maybe it made me dizzy, I lowered my head and whispered: "Then what do you want to do? I can also accompany you."

He smiled: "I don't think we should do anything, just walk on the street."

On the street, as Li Chengyin said, he didn't know what to do standing in the crowd.

Li Chengyin grabbed my hand: "If you stand here and don't move, you really can't do anything, let's go around."

The street market at night is more lively than in the daytime, and the lights are as bright as day.Li Chengyin's hand was as warm as ever, I followed him through the bustling crowd, feeling at ease like never before.

There was a sugar man's shop beside him, Li Chengyin stopped in his tracks: "When I brought you here before, I didn't even eat that sugar man, is it delicious?"

I think of the sugar man that was broken under my feet, and the incomplete bamboo sticks have long been thrown away.

I raised my eyes and smiled, "It's delicious."

He patted his waist pocket: "Today I brought enough silver taels, this time you and I will have one."

He stretched out two fingers to the shop peddler: "Boss, here are two sugar figurines."

I took the crystal clear sugar figurine, which had a sweet yellow light on it, but tasted a little salty and bitter in my mouth.

Li Chengyin held his candy figurine: "Is this the taste you ate last time?"

I shook my head: "No, this time...it's sweeter this time."

Li Chengyin raised his eyebrows, bit off a small corner, chewed it in his mouth, and said with a smile: "So it's really sweet." He grabbed my hand tightly, "There are many people on the road, be careful. Don't let go."

I shook his hand back: "Don't worry, I won't get lost."

Li Chengyin saw the front with a blink of an eye, and dragged me: "Look, there is a mask seller there, let's go and have a look."

Before I could answer, Li Chengyin took me to the shop, picked out a Kunlun slave mask, put it on his face and shook his head: "Is my appearance funny?"

I was amused by his exaggerated movements: "It's so ugly, put it down quickly." Then he reached out to pick it off.

But Li Chengyin grabbed my hand: "That's it... just wear it like this." He paused, and added, "After all, it's the Lantern Festival, you see those people are all wearing it, we are also with the people Have fun."

Not giving me a chance to refute, Li Chengyin pulled me back again: "Go, I'll take you to a place."

**

The Shangyuan Festival is a major festival in the rich dynasty. For countless men and women, it is more like an annual tryst day.

Jia'an girls put on their favorite dresses and carry all kinds of lanterns, laughing with their sisters or lovers in groups of twos and threes, carrying fluttering belts and fragrance of powder when walking.

Li Chengyin and I walked up the bridge slowly, many people stopped on the bridge, looking at the bridge and chatting one after another.

I leaned out slightly and looked at the dark green flowing water under the bridge. A boatman rowed by. The wooden pulp shook the calm water surface, bringing up layers of distant waves, shattering the faint light reflected by the bow of the boat.

Li Chengyin pulled me to the other side, when I looked down again, my eyes widened.

The willows with tender spring buds drawn from the bank passed my sight, and after slowly hanging down, I could see the sparks of fire all over the river, and the scattered lotus lanterns fluttered on the river surface, going away along the direction of the water flow.

The men and women squatting on the bank let go of their hands, and the lotus lanterns one after another dyed the dark green river into the emerald green of spring.

The small boat passed through the bridge hole just now, when the bow of the boat was advancing, it pushed out an empty river channel, and when the stern left, the separated lotus lanterns were still gathering and lingering.

I turned my head and was a little stunned: "I didn't see you when I came out with you last time."

Li Chengyin's smile was hidden behind the mask: "At that time we were not walking this river, and later...you separated from me again, and when we met again, you ignored me, so you didn't come here."

He leaned slightly and leaned into my ear: "Do you want to put a lotus lantern too? We have a saying in Feng Dynasty that the farther the lotus lantern floats, the longer the wish will last."

I touched Hua Sheng on the head, and muttered: "You have so many sayings."

"Then do you want to go?"

"Well...well, I'm reluctant to go with you."

Li Chengyin wrapped his fingers around my wrist: "Let's go."

I followed him down the bridge, seeing that his direction was not towards the side with the lanterns, I reminded him: "Li Chengyin, the direction is wrong!"

Li Cheng Yin turned around: "You just follow me."

After he bought two lotus lanterns, he took me to the wharf where there was a ferry boat, took out a piece of silver and handed it to the boatman: "I will sell this boat tonight, and I will take my wife to play."

The boatman took the money tremblingly, clenched his hands as if confirming the authenticity, and said repeatedly: "Okay, okay..." After finishing speaking, he untied the rope.

Li Chengyin stepped onto the boat and reached out to me.I passed my hand over and stepped in with one foot, the boat swayed, I hugged Li Chengyin's arm subconsciously, he held my waist and said with a low smile: "Madam, please slow down."

I glanced to the side embarrassingly. The boatman was looking at us and laughing. When he saw my gaze, he quickly suppressed his smile and turned his back to us: "I hope you two have a good time tonight."

Li Chengyin helped me to sit on the bow of the boat: "Madam, I hope you have a good time tonight."

He was standing at the stern of the boat with a long pole on his pole. His luxurious clothes and slender body attracted Jia An's attention.I have to be thankful that he is still wearing a mask, after all, the face underneath will draw us more attention.

Holding the unlit lotus lantern in my hand, I sat on the bow of the boat with my back to him. I looked up and saw the stone bridge coming towards me, and two or three lotus lanterns slid past the bow.

Gradually, the number of lotus lanterns increased.

Li Chengyin's long pole stirred the river water, the waves swayed to the bow of the boat, and the flames on the river swayed violently.

The boat was driving in the dense lights, his clothes were smooth, and the light of water and fire reflected on his chest, making my eyes sore.

As the boat traveled farther and farther away, the noise of the crowd became smaller and smaller, the river surface gradually opened up, and the originally dense lights became sparser.

The surroundings became quiet, only the sound of rushing water could be heard, and occasionally a water bird flapped its wings and flew by, splashing into my arms with water foam.

The long pole stirred up the ash at the bottom of the water, and under the bright light, a mist-like shadow appeared, and then sank and disappeared.

Li Chengyin rowed the boat quietly all the time, I leaned over the bow of the boat, stretched out my hand, and touched the pink petals of the lotus lamp between my fingers, the temperature was not as cold as I imagined, but warmed by the candle .

Li Chengyin said: "Be careful, if you fall into the river this time, it won't be Little Fenghan." Holding the long pole in his hand, he paused and teased, "It's fine if you fall, I have to jump Go in and save you, the long pole will be gone, and we will have to paddle with our hands for a day and a night before we can go back."

When he said this, I stood up and turned my head towards him. His face was always facing forward, and his exposed eyes didn't know whether they were looking at the water or my flushed cheeks.

After a long silence between each other, he suddenly said: "Xiaofeng, look back."

When I heard this, I turned around, and the sparse lotus lanterns became dense again.

I stretched my neck, only to find that there were more and more burning lotus lanterns in front of me, and a large number of burning lotus lanterns were crowded together, and some of them had already gone out.

Li Chengyin carefully supported the long pole and rowed inside, this time, I don't need to reach out to reach it, I just need to reach out to touch it.

After getting deeper and deeper, I finally understood the reason.

Those water lanterns that carried people's prayers were blocked on the river surface, separated by a thin line, the nearby river channel was brightly lit, while the distant river channel was completely dimmed.

I looked at Li Chengyin: "This is...?"

Li Chengyin said: "The lotus lanterns are stranded here, and someone will come to collect them tomorrow. If there are too many water lanterns, if they gather together, they will eventually be discarded."

I looked at the water lanterns everywhere and felt a little disappointed: "It turns out...it turns out that no matter how strong the desire is, it can't beat this bamboo pole that stops the water."

Li Chengyin put the long pole on the boat board, squatted in front of me: "This is also the reason why I brought you here."

He stuck out the fire pocket from his sleeve: "Now, you can put the lamp on."

I watched in a daze as he lit the two lamps in front of him, and the flames shone on the mask, turning into a ray of warm orange beams, and his eyes were also blazing brightly: "One for you, one for me, you make a wish, and then We push it away.

It can travel far, maybe... to your West Continent. "

I took the lotus lantern, stood by the boat with him, closed my eyes and began to make a wish.

What wish should I make?

I was a little confused, but I heard Li Chengyin's voice: "The greatest wish in my life, one is to have a rich dynasty and a prosperous world, and the other is for Xiaofeng to be safe and sound."

I was stunned: "Wishes should be told to God, is it still useful for you to say it?"

Li Chengyin looked at me sideways: "Gods don't listen, I'll tell people who can hear."

I looked at him, the tip of my nose was a little sore, I folded my hands after I lowered my eyes and took a deep breath: "I just hope... I hope Xizhou is fine."

Gods above, I believe you exist, and I have a wish, I will tell you secretly——

I wish, Li Chengyin forgets about me, live a long and healthy life with all his descendants happy.

He and I put the lotus lanterns into the water and pushed them away, watching them collide in one place, then separate, and slowly disappear into each other's sight.

At the moment when the fire on the river disappeared, I was already in tears.

I raised my head and murmured: "Li Chengyin..." I put my finger on his face and took off the mask.

The familiar face under the mask bears two blurred lines.

I climbed up to his neck, he put his arms around my waist, the two bodies were close together, the lips were stained with each other's breath...

On the way back to the palace, we tacitly said nothing about the future.

He sent me to the bed, kissed my forehead, and whispered softly as usual: "Have a good rest, I'm leaving."

His lips moved away from mine slowly, and he solemnly took a deep look at me with a nostalgia that he thought he didn't want to show, and then turned around resolutely.

I watched him push open the door.

The paper door is like a mountain gate layer upon layer, layer by layer, separating me from him...

The people sent by my brother arrived before dawn.

I wrapped my cloak, and handed the wine jar in my arms to Yong Niang: "This is the wine I buried under a tree many years ago, and now it is very fragrant, give it to Li Cheng Yin for me..."

Yong Niang nodded, and took out the small wooden box from her cuff: "This is the mace that His Highness asked me to put away in the past, and now, it should be returned to the original owner."

I opened the wooden box and looked at the old things lying quietly inside for several years, with mixed feelings in my heart.

After putting the spike back on my neck, I looked at the silent Yong Niang, and after holding back for a long time, I managed to speak: "Take care of yourself, I'm leaving."

Yong Niang nodded: "I will."

I made up my mind to turn around, and Yong Niang suddenly shouted: "Crown Princess!"

I froze for a moment and looked back.

Yong Niang's lips whispered for a while: "You...you will remember me, right?"

I lowered my head to adjust my mood, raised my head and said with a smile: "I will."

She also laughed:

"Okay... take care."

We rode horses and rushed out of the pass overnight.

The guards at the gate saluted me respectfully and pushed open the heavy city gate.

The ancient door creaked.In front of me, the boundless world I dreamed of slowly unfolded.

I flicked the horsewhip, and the horse's hooves slammed, leading me out of the city gate.

The vast land stretching as far as the eye can see greeted me with open arms without reservation. I rode a red horse and galloped across the land where blood and regret had been intertwined.

Suddenly, I reined in the reins and looked back.

On the height of the city wall, there is a vague shadow standing alone on it.

The sun rises behind him.

And I swung my long whip, the horseshoes kicked up the dust, and I ran away in the direction where the sun fell...

(BE version, end)