Buried fire

The next day was the first day of the Lunar New Year, and according to the tradition of the school, he had to go to other hills to compete with others in martial arts, to congratulate the New Year on the surface, but actually beat the crowd.

This year, Lu Huanyi didn't join in the fun. After Yin Zhu was injured, he was in the state of a little snake, and he never changed back to human form. There was an inconspicuous bald spot on the tip of his tail, but in Lu Huanyi's eyes, this piece was very big, which caused him I always thought Yin Zhu was bald.

Not in that sense, but in general it's pretty much the same.

Yin Zhu is also not very energetic. The third uncle said that the scales of the singing snake are equal to the cultivation level, and being chopped off a piece is similar to being forcibly lowered by someone. recovery in time.

Lu Huanyi watched Yin Zhu sleep through the whole New Year's day, the second day of the first day, and woke up for a while on the third day, opened his eyes and fell into a state of who am I, where am I, and what am I doing, and was confused for half an hour Then fell asleep again.

Finally, on the fourth day of the lunar new year, Yin Zhu finally woke up in bed, opened his eyes and saw the familiar ceiling, was stunned for a while, then turned his head to search for Lu Huanyi's figure in the room.

He heard footsteps coming from far to near outside the door, and each step made a creaking sound on the snow. He could hear the person's light footsteps. After a while, he opened the door and saw Yin Zhuyi with his eyes open on the bed. Leng: "Are you awake?"

"Well," Yin Zhu watched Lu Huanyi walking towards him, "Where have you been?"

"Eat," Lu Huanyi came over and reached out to touch his forehead, "Do you have any discomfort?"

Yin Zhu was taken aback by his question, and it took him a long time to remember that he was injured by the person in the red light, and his scales were cut off. He didn't want to look back at that painful pain in his life, so he raised his eyes to meet Looking into Lu Huanyi's eyes, he paused for a while, "I'm not feeling uncomfortable."

"That's good." Lu Huanyi breathed a sigh of relief, "Are you hungry? Go eat?"

Yin Zhu touched his stomach, but he was not very hungry.

It was strange, every time he woke up he was very hungry, as if he had vomited out all the food he ate after falling asleep, and he was so hungry that he panicked, but this time he didn't feel this way at all after waking up.

But after thinking about it, Lu Huanyi said that he just came back from dinner.

This means that the dining time in the lobby has passed.

If you want to eat again, you have to go to the back kitchen to make it yourself.

"Will you do it for me?" Yin Zhu looked at him.

"Yes," Lu Huanyi replied, feeling a little baffled, "You can eat what you cook?"

"It can be eaten," Yin Zhu said, "Let's go, cook."

Lu Huanyi rolled his eyes, and rushed to the closet before Yin Zhu opened the door, and he took out a coat.

I met very few people along the way. During the Chinese New Year, most of them ran to other hills in twos and threes to play, or went to some uncle’s house to eat melon seeds. They didn’t meet three senior brothers until they reached the door of the back kitchen. .Yin Zhu also asked where the person who was caught that day was imprisoned, and Lu Huanyi briefly said to him, "She will be interrogated the night after tomorrow, do you want to go?"

"Go," Yin Zhu said, "I have questions to ask her."

"Sui Sui, it's your turn to go down the mountain to do the shopping tomorrow," the chef in the back kitchen saw Lu Huanyi coming in, wiped the sweat from his brow, and said with a smile, "Remember to buy something you like."

"Hey," Lu Huanyi replied, taking out noodles from the cabinet, "I see."

"Are you going down the mountain tomorrow?" Yin Zhu leaned over and asked.

"What are you excited about? You have to come back after going down the mountain." Lu Huanyi put the noodles aside, and while waiting for the water to boil, he took the time to ask Yin Zhu, "Do you know what day tomorrow is?"

Yin Zhu thought for a while, he didn't know what day tomorrow was, but Lu Huanyi's question must refer to a special day, he thought about it, and asked tentatively: "Christmas?"

"Why don't you say New Year?" Lu Huanyi glanced at him.

"It's the Chinese New Year again," Yin Zhu sighed, "It turns out that human beings have to celebrate the Chinese New Year twice."

Lu Huanyi threw the noodles into the boiling water, watched them all soften and slid into the water, then closed the lid, turned to look at Yin Zhu, and swept him all over with a look like are you fucking mentally retarded? , and then said: "Tomorrow is my birthday."

"Oh." Yin Zhu responded.

"Do you know what birthday is?" Lu Huanyi said.

"I know." Yin Zhu said, "Birthday."

"Then you don't want to wish me a happy birthday?" Lu Huanyi took the noodles out of the pot and put them into a bowl, "Wish me a happy birthday, or I'll throw this bowl of noodles upside down."

"Happy birthday." Yin Zhu said quickly.

Lu Huanyi paused, gave him the noodles, and thought about whether Yin Zhu didn't have the majesty and self-esteem that a big monster should have.

"But your birthday shouldn't be tomorrow." Yin Zhu held the bowl and went to find a seat. "You have a lot of yin, and people live in groups these days and there is plenty of yang, so you shouldn't be born in these few days."

"Well, my original birthday is not tomorrow." Lu Huanyi sat opposite him, holding his face, "Master said that my original birthday was unlucky, but after it passed, I would attract some unclean things, so I asked me to choose one that I like." day is my birthday."

"Then what happened before you were ignorant?" Yin Zhu said.

"Then I don't remember either," Lu Huanyi thought for a while, "Master, if I can remember it, I'll pass it, but if I don't, I won't be able to pass it once a year."

"I remember," Yin Zhu swallowed a mouthful of noodles, "I will remember."

Lu Huanyi smiled, raised his hand and slapped Yin Zhu on the head lightly, "Eat your noodles."

Yin Zhu was silent now, quickly finished eating the noodles, put the bowl in the back kitchen to wash, then walked out and continued to ask: "Since you are going to celebrate your birthday... birthday, why do you have to go down the mountain to buy?"

"Ah," Lu Huanyi thought for a while, "because they want to arrange it on the mountain and give me a surprise."

"You know it all," Yin Zhu snorted disdainfully, "They're no surprise."

"Because they will find an excuse to send me away every year," Lu Huanyi sighed, "and they will also pull an ugly banner for me every year."

Banner on a red background with the words "Happy Birthday to you!" in yellow block letters

Every year.

Nothing new.

This year may be because I have already gone down the mountain once, and I have a little understanding of the life down the mountain, and I have another excuse to distract myself.

Going down the mountain to buy, Lu Huanyi has lived on the mountain for so many years, but he has never seen a senior brother who was called to go down the mountain to buy.

Are they the ones in the back kitchen?The chef brought the powerful black bear spirit and the black bear spirit's family down the mountain to buy vegetables.

As for daily necessities, they all go down the mountain to buy by themselves, and those who have not been assigned by the master to go down the mountain let the brothers who have gone down the mountain to buy them.

It's true, nothing new, and even the excuses are fake.

But inexplicably, it makes people feel very looking forward to it.

Just like Chinese New Year, every year is New Year's Eve, and the process of the New Year's Eve is the same, but it just makes people feel warm, and there is an inexplicable expectation.

Yin Zhu responded and stopped talking.

In the early morning of the next day, Lu Huanyi got up, tidied up, took Yin Zhu out of the house, and went down the mountain with the hypocritical expressions of "nothing happened and I don't know anything" from all the senior brothers.

The air below the mountain is not as pure as that on the mountain, but the temperature is much higher than that on the mountain.

Walking all the way down the mountain, Lu Huanyi felt a little hot, so he opened his coat and undid two buttons of the knitted sweater inside.

"What are you going to buy?" Yin Zhu asked him.

"Don't buy anything," Lu Huanyi said. "Walk down the mountain until they hang up the banners and put on the ugly decorations, and then go back and pretend to be pleasantly surprised."

"Then come with me," Yin Zhu said, "I'll give you something."

"Birthday gift?" Lu Huanyi smiled, not taking it seriously, but Yin Zhu's expression was very serious.

"Well," he said, "a birthday present."