On the red-painted window lattice, rose-like wood grains grow. The white window paper is covered with thin ice, and the light filters in vaguely. The world under the sun is filled with cold air. In the light celadon vase with pure glaze on the table, red plum blossoms shine through seductively. With a delicate fragrance. Lu Marry stood by the window. The light passed through the thin ice and refracted from different angles. It illuminated her snow-white clothes and made the shadow falling on the ground appear blurry.
The snow had not stopped yet, and there were occasional drops of water on the ice edges at the corners of the eaves. She looked at the scattered snow flying out of the window, silently.
Ning Jiujiu stood up from the bed, the warmth still lingering on the side of his pillow. He stretched out his hand to touch it, and then looked along the shadow. In his sight, he only saw the woman standing tall, her ivory-colored snow neck filled with light, bright and dazzling, and the clouds The clothes are misty, as if they will melt into the light at any time.
"Are you awake?" Lu Yueyue turned her head and asked calmly.
Ning put on his clothes for a long time and looked into her eyes.
If this eye is a clear mirror, once the mirror reflects the world, the world will be turned upside down in the prism.
Ning stared longingly for a while, his expression gradually clearing up. He covered his head and said feebly: "I've been tired both physically and mentally from studying papers and reading papers lately, so I want to... sleep a little longer."
Ning Changjiu was about to lie down when he heard a clanging sound.
The water in the brush wash on the desk rippled thinly.
Ning Jiujiu's pupils narrowed.
A small silver sword hovered between his eyebrows, the tip of the sword was like a needle, full of murderous intent.
Ning Chang leaned against the wall, not daring to move.
"Marry... you, what's going on?" Ning asked for a long time.
Lu Marion said coldly: "The accounts from last night haven't been settled yet."
Ning Jiujiu didn't know whether to live or die and said: "Aren't you satisfied with marrying a disciple?"
"Unbridled!" Lu Jianjiao turned her fingers on her sleeves, and the sword spirit was instantly activated. The surrounding wooden tables, porcelain bowls, lanterns and ink pens were immediately covered with the sword energy like frost and snow. In Ning Changjiu's sight, the warm voice beside the window The light suddenly dimmed, and in the entire field of vision, only Lu Jianyou's figure remained the most distinct.
With a thought from Lu Jianjian, countless small swords transformed from sword intent were shot at Ning Changjiu.
The sound of ding-ding-ding kept ringing.
After a moment, the sword intent circled the outline of his body precisely.
Ning Changjiu's words immediately softened and he begged for mercy: "Master, please let me go."
Lu Marry took a deep breath and said, "What should we do now?"
"What should I do?" Ning asked for a long time.
Lu Marry looked at him quietly, with a stern expression, not angry or intimidating.
Ning Jiujiu said helplessly: "Can I still kill my junior sister?"
Lu Marian said: "Anyway, you have to find a way."
"Junior sister is not a child anymore. She will know this sooner or later." Ning Jiujiu said seriously: "You don't need to have a grudge to get married... Junior sister is so good, she will definitely know how to pretend not to know."
"Deceiving yourself and others." Lu Jiaojiao said.
Every time she thought about those words last night, she felt like she was drunk.
How could you say something like that
It happened that Xiao Ling heard it...
"Why is Xiaoling in your room?" Lu Married asked coldly.
Ning Changjiu said: "Xiao Ling's purpose... is the same as getting married."
Lu Marian was startled, her amber earlobes turned red, and the cold look on her face was no longer replaced by a sense of disbelief. She stared at Ning for a long time, her lips trembled slightly, her eyes flickered, and she said in disbelief: "You...you actually want to treat Xiaoling...she is your junior sister! You are worse than a beast!"
Lu Jiaojianqing shouted angrily, her words were like knives. The red plum trees beside him instantly turned into powder and fell, leaving only a bare black branch.
Lu Marian turned around and left in anger, almost slamming the door and leaving.
"?" Ning Jiujiu was also stunned. He felt the sword intent vibrating around the outline of his body, and said in shock: "Xiao Ling is here to hide from Si Ming, isn't Marry Married?"
In an instant, the room was filled with murderous intent.
"..." Lu Marry stopped, turned around, and looked at Ning Changjiu in silence.
Snow was blowing from the window.
Ning Jiujiu was a little nervous.
Lu Marry bit her lip, remembering that she was speechless again before, and became even more annoyed: "Why don't you make it clear?"
"I made it very clear." Ning Jiujiu looked extremely innocent.
"How did you make it clear? It was clearly intentional..." Lu Jiayou snorted coldly, her eyes even more resentful.
Ning Jiu couldn't bear it anymore and said, "It's obviously your wild imagination!"
"It's not that you deliberately led me to shame me and make me angry. You and Xue Ci are the same as each other! You don't even see me as a master in your eyes." Lu Marian's words were harsh and full of anger.
Ning Jiujiu cried out: "Marry, please pat your chest and think about it carefully. Xiao Ling is just a fox now. Even if I... right?"
Lu Marry was stunned for a moment, then she realized that she had indeed misunderstood him.
But how could she admit it? Isn't the point of quarrels just the unreasonable momentum
"What about the fox? You can't do anything!" Lu Jiaojian said coldly: "If you have nothing wrong with you, why didn't you tell me that Xiaoling was in the house as soon as I walked in? It's obvious that you deliberately teased me. Want to make excuses?"
"..." Ning Changjiu thought to himself that you clearly didn't give me a chance to speak last night... He said angrily: "I shouldn't have opened the door for you last night!"
"Huh?" Lu Marian's expression became even colder: "If you don't open the door for me, who will open it? Or, you want to be alone with Xiaoling for a night, but it's me, the master, who disturbs you?"
Ning Changjiu said: "When I was with Miss Si Ming, how could I see that I was so disdainful? You were too bully and afraid of the strong!"
Lu Marian said: "You still have the nerve to say that you lured the tiger here, but you don't know how to restrain it."
Ning Jiujiu said: "Although Miss Siming has known me for a long time,... wasn't she abducted by you in Luoshu?"
Lu Jianjian said: "My friendship with Miss Siming was originally simple. Isn't it because of you that we are like this? You spend all day messing around with women outside. But when you are not here, I just keep quiet every day." Practice, be strict with yourself, and in the end, you still blame me?"
Ning Jiujiu wanted to refute, but he didn't know how to speak. When he saw Lu Married's faint eyes, his mind suddenly lit up.
Of course, Lu Marry was not just complaining.
He lowered his head pretending to be ashamed, pondered for a moment, and asked, "Both you and Xiaoling are called Si Ming Bandit Sister?"
Lu Married said yes: "I thought you were deaf to what was going on outside the window."
Ning Jiujiu showed a look of shared hatred: "After New Year's Eve, I will go to Tianbang. But before that, how can I bear to see Marry being bullied? Tonight, on New Year's Eve, we went to Yishang Street to see the lanterns and enjoy the fireworks. My husband helped You get all your face back."
"Really?" Lu Married asked.
"Of course." Ning Jiujiu said calmly: "As the saying goes, everyone recommends robbers!"
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Tonight is New Year's Eve.
Ning Xiaoling ran in the soft snow, looking at the white snow falling in the sky, feeling lonely in her heart.
Alas, now it’s better. Go to see Sister Siming. Sister Siming will bully you. Go to see Master Marry. Master is afraid that he will stuff a ball in your mouth. The senior brother must also be on the side of the master, and he would not hesitate to sell himself... and go back.
Even though the people closest to her were around her, Ning Xiaoling looked at the snow cliff, but she felt a sense of sadness without anyone around her.
She went to Youyue Lake out of boredom.
Di Tingzheng sat on the ice arrogantly, stroking his snow-white cat hair, like an old monk in meditation.
In front of it, there is an ice pit.
"Tingting, what are you doing?" Ning Xiaoling asked curiously.
Di Ting said: "Obviously, I am catching fish!"
Ning Xiaoling frowned and said, "You actually want to secretly eat fish? This will let my benefactor sister know that you have no good fruit to eat."
The Fish King turned its head, its eyes were green, and its body was obviously a lot thinner. It sighed: "I just have some issues with that woman, and there is no blood feud, so there is no need to stare at this cat. Besides... you can't help me attract her. Firepower?”
"..." Ning Xiaoling looked at Di Ting and said, "I heard from senior brother that you used to be called Fish King?"
"We're all gone." Fish King said calmly.
Ning Xiaoling looked at the ice hole dug in front of it and asked, "Did you call it this because you were good at fishing?"
The Fish King shook his head and said, "No, it's because I used to guard a medium-sized fish pond."
Ning Xiaoling asked: "Guarding the fish pond?"
"Yes." The Fish King said: "There are old fish, some small ones, some fierce ones, and some cowardly ones. I can all call them by their names. They are my friends."
Ning Xiaoling asked: "Since they are your friends, why do you still eat fish all day long?"
The Fish King plausibly said: "I eat fish, but not my friends. The former is nature and the latter is morality. I am a cat with principles."
At this moment, Ning Xiaoling suddenly felt that her senior brother's moral code seemed worse than that of a cat...
Ning Xiaoling looked at the hole in the ice and asked again: "You dug a hole and didn't even put any bait. How can you really catch fish if you are so stingy?"
The Fish King said leisurely: "Of course I can catch it."
Ning Xiaoling asked: "Why?"
The Fish King said: "Look, Youyue Lake has been frozen for thousands of miles. It is impossible for the fish to get out from any other place. This is the sky they cannot break, and I am the god who sits here, opening the sky for them." There is a gap that looks like freedom, I don’t need to promise anything, and I don’t need to deceive them, they will follow the path and swarm in.”
Ning Xiaoling was doubtful.
However, looking at Di Ting's confident sitting posture, it does feel like a god sitting high in the sky, as if he is the absolute ruler of this ice lake.
It was exactly as the Fish King expected.
Not long after, in the ice cave, in the deep green emerald-like lake, silvery-white fish sprang out from the depths and rushed to the surface one after another, jumping in the water, looking very happy.
The Fish King looked at them coldly and sighed.
"You see, these are stupid fish." The fish king sighed: "They feel that the comfortable bottom of the lake is too depressing. They regard the light shining in the hole as hope, and follow its guidance, rushing up to the lake one after another, towards What do they think of as freedom?"
The Fish King said sadly: "The fate of fish is just water. They are nothing if they leave the water. I am a god. Maybe I can't see the world under the ice lake, but I only need to give them hope, and they will Serve your delicious meat in front of me."
"During this process, they will even praise it and name this path of pursuing light... practice!"
As the fish king said this, he stretched out his sharp claws like a knife out of its sheath, and caught a whitebait that jumped out of the water in his hand, and then threw it into a fish basket aside, planning to take it home and bake it later.
"Do you understand?" Fish King looked at Ning Xiaoling.
Ning Xiaoling listened to Di Ting's words and felt that she understood.
"This ice lake is a world..." Ning Xiaoling said slowly: "Is the person sitting on top of the world a god? Cultivating Taoism... is just a lie?"
The fish king showed a smile, its sharp claws flashed in the light, and caught the whitebait into its own basket. It proudly said: "Yes, to these small fish and shrimps, I am the supreme king of the kingdom of God." host!"
Snap.
The fish king suddenly received a blow on the head. It tilted and fell on the snow.
It touched its cheek and found that a snowball had hit it.
"How dare you attack the Supreme Being..." The Fish King looked to the side and saw a black dress swaying in the wind and snow.
It immediately fell silent and blocked its fish basket with its body.
Ning Xiaoling also held her tail and shivered.
Siming walked to the Fish King, looked at the full fish basket, and praised: "It's a great harvest..."
The Fish King explained: "I'm just teaching Xiaoling the truth."
"Yes, that's right." Siming nodded and said, "Now that I've finished teaching you the principles, I'll take away the props."
"..." The Fish King dared not speak out in anger. As the 'Lord of the Divine Kingdom' of Ice Lake, it was easily suppressed by Si Ming with a single gesture.
Siming held the fish basket in his right hand and Xiaoling in his left hand, and left with a smile.
The Fish King looked at her leaving figure and thought to himself, why don't you return the fish basket to me
Xiao Ling also looked at the Fish King with despair.
The Fish King slowly warned: "This is that there is a heaven outside the sky..."
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When Ning Jiujiu and Master Lu Jianjiu went to attack Si Ming in vain, Si Ming seemed to have had a premonition and was no longer in the house, and Ning Xiaoling disappeared without a trace.
"Did you cover her up and secretly inform her?" Lu Married asked.
Ning Jiujiu said: "Have you lost any trust in me?"
Lu Marion snorted and said, "I believed in you in the past. How did it become like this? You have to reflect on it."
Ning sighed for a long time. He reflected briefly and silently blamed it on Lu Marion's incomprehension and unreasonable troubles.
Ning Jiujiu said: "It's okay, there is still a whole night, I think Si Ming can't run very far."
Lu Marian asked: "Then where are you going to catch her?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "She took Xiaoling away. Obviously she didn't go far. She should have gone to Clothes Street."
Lu Marry nodded thoughtfully.
Ning Changjiu smiled and said: "Let's go see the Lantern Festival and the fireworks, and catch the robbers on the way."
Lu Marry agrees.
Night is gradually falling, and Yishang Street is brightly lit, as bright as day.
Ning Changjiu and Lu Jianjiao entered the city unimpeded by relying on their Gulingzong identity cards.
Along the street, rows of bright colored lanterns are lit up row upon row. The paper lanterns are all drawn with colored pens. The pen and ink seem to be smeared with fluorescent powder, rotating in the breeze and changing in the candlelight.
Cars and horses passed in the middle of the wide road.
Would rather stop for a long time.
The whirling lights of the carriages and horses brushed across Lu Marian's beautiful profile, and the voices of people chatting lightly rose and fell in the ears, flowing along the bustling scene into the depths of the long night.
"I haven't been to a place like this for a long time." Lu Jiaou said.
Ning Changjiu said: "The Caijuan Immortal Palace back then was far more beautiful than this one."
"That's different." Lu Married said: "Caijuan Immortal Palace is beautiful, but we have been thinking about the meaning behind the beauty. Our heartstrings are always tense and we have no time to appreciate it."
Ning Changjiu nodded gently and said with a smile: "Then aren't we here to arrest people tonight?"
Lu Marian said: "It's not urgent, anyway, a tiger can outrun a fox but not a fox."
Ning Changjiu smiled and shook his head.
Lu Yuai and Ning Changjiu were both dressed in white. They looked out of place among the crowd wearing mink cotton-padded jackets and thick cloaks. The glazed lanterns on the wall worked hard to illuminate them, as if they were trying to illuminate them. The city's luxury is imprinted on their clothes.
Ning Changjiu and Lu Jianjian walked in the intertwined light and shadow, less like immortals and more like passers-by in the world.
The river flowing through the city flows quietly.
Ning Changjiu and Lu Marion stood on the long bridge and looked out.
On the largest singing tower in the distance, strips of red ribbons slid down the cornices of the tall building, and their edges seemed to be burning with fire. In front of the tall building, phoenixes, birds, dragons, sea animals, immortals and Buddhas danced together, hanging gauze hanging colorful Exquisite little sedans, like large fish with colorful scales, arrived one after another in front of the brightly lit building.
"Did you spend New Year's Eve like this when you were a kid?" Ning Jiujiu asked casually.
Lu Marian looked at the beautiful night and the beautiful river, stroking the railing and thinking quietly, shaking her head gently, "I can't remember clearly. There seems to be no difference between New Year's Eve and ordinary days. I only remember that it was very noisy outside. , the noise is so annoying that people can’t sleep.”
Ning listened to her words for a long time and gently held her hand.
"Don't you like the excitement of marriage?" Ning Changjiu asked.
Lu Marry shook her head gently: "Not really."
"Why?"
"Because there is a Nian beast on New Year's Eve. If the Nian beast is not scared away, the Nian beast will eat the children at night. I was still very young at that time... so it is better to make a noise than to be eaten."
"It's a pity that I didn't meet Marry when I was young."
"Huh, you weren't born when I was little. If you want to be your childhood sweetheart, you can go to Zhao Kingdom to find your fiancée earlier."
"I don't want to die young..."
"Hey, I always talk about bad people behind their backs. I don't know what you said about me in front of sister Xiang'er?"
"Of course they are all good words."
"Do not believe."
“…”
The two walked across the stone bridge hand in hand, walking slowly and looking around carelessly. The streets lined with buildings were filled with different atmospheres, and they decorated the night with their own colors. The sound of the river faded away in my ears, and the shouts from under the eaves got closer. The steaming hot air rushed out against the wind and snow, and the sound of people drinking and drinking was shattered in the night.
In the distance, large flying fish lanterns that look like paper kites are flying in the wind. Many fireflies are tied to both ends of the big fish. The lights greedily turn into people's pupils, alternating and changing. The headlights are connected end to end, like a long bridge spanning a good night.
"It wasn't until I grew up that I realized that New Year's Eve is beautiful." Lu Jiayou said.
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said, "When you meet a beautiful woman, you will feel like old friends at first sight."
Lu Marion smiled and snorted, ignoring his compliments. She came to a gouache shop along the way and walked in calmly.
Ning Jiujiu followed behind.
"A married woman who doesn't put on makeup will have to follow the local customs?" Ning Jiujiu asked.
Lu Marian said: "I just think these porcelain bottles are beautiful, but I don't like the rouge and gouache inside."
Ning Jiujiu praised: "The merchants here like customers like you who buy casks for pearls."
Lu Marion responded: "I'm indeed not as smart as you. You asked me to be your disciple and you didn't even give me the apprenticeship ceremony. Instead, I put myself on the other side."
Ning Jiujiu said: "That's why I also like to marry guests like this."
"Don't be a guest. It sounds like we have... that kind of relationship." Lu Jiaojian said.
Lu Marry said while buying things.
In the end, it was Ning Changjiu who paid in name.
The source of the money is naturally the money embezzled by the sect leader when he left Yujian Tianzong...
"New Year's Eve here is also called the Spring Festival. The most beautiful girls in the city will go to the jade pavilion to recite poems and worship the heavens. There are also activities such as poetry and lantern banquets. The girls from the Mu family and the Yu family are both very beautiful. I don't know who went there. Who is it?" Ning said for a long time what he knew about Clothes Street.
Lu Marian said: "Do you want to see the most beautiful girl?"
Ning stared at her for a long time and said seriously: "Aren't you watching?"
Lu Marian turned her cheek and asked calmly: "Didn't you say that we were going to catch Si Ming and Xiao Ling who were on the run? What? Do you want to practice favoritism and allow them to survive?"
Ning Changjiu said: "They are in the city, but Si Ming is full of tricks. We can't alert them. Let's take a stroll."
"How are you sure they are here?" Lu Marian asked.
I would rather laugh for a long time and not answer.
The two of them walked along the bustling market.
They ate a bowl of dumplings on the street.
Others congratulated each other or talked about the young master and the young lady of the aristocratic family. Of course, what they talked about the most was what happened today at Luoshu Tower and Gu Ling Sect. In their hearts, these existences, which were like fairy caves, collapsed and declined overnight, which always caused a lot of confusion. Countless concerns that people have.
After eating Yuanzi, Ning Jiujiu and Lu Jianjiu continued shopping, chatting wordlessly. The two of them talked and laughed most of the time, but Ning Jiujiu would sometimes get killed because of his teasing. .
Chasing all the way, the two of them arrived in the center of the city before they knew it.
In the sky, many virtuous female monks wore colorful clothes and danced in the sky.
In the center, a brightly lit building, richly dressed dignitaries came in and out.
Ning Jiujiu showed the wooden sign to the gatekeeper, who immediately handed over the mask and welcomed them in.
Brands with the master level of Gu Ling Sect are truly unobstructed in Yishang Street.
"Everyone who comes here must wear a mask." Ning Jiujiu handed the masks issued by the guards to Lu Jianjie, one for each person, and put them on their faces.
Lu Marian said: "We are two dressed in white and mixed in. What does it matter whether we wear masks or not?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "It doesn't matter whether Siming recognizes us. On the contrary, if she recognizes us, she may even take the initiative to provoke us, betting that I don't know her."
Lu Marian thought this was reasonable.
They found a table and sat down, and a waitress immediately served them and handed them the menu. Ning Changchun and Lu Marian ordered many dishes. While waiting, the delicacies were served one by one.
There was singing and dancing in the building, colorful skirts were dancing, and all kinds of people were walking around in front of them.
Here are all high-status people, wearing various masks and writing extensively. Masks are a symbol of status. Only the waiters and waiters reveal their faces, because in this way they can give the guests the best and most sincere smiles on New Year's Eve.
"Does that look like Siming?" Lu Marion guessed, pointing to a woman wearing a demon fox mask.
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said, "It's a bit similar."
"Go up and have a look?"
"Not going."
"That's not the case." Lu Marion deduced, then looked in another direction and said, "That woman is wearing a very heavy scarf, presumably to cover up her young age."
Ning Jiujiu said: "The marriage inference is reasonable."
"No?" Lu Marion frowned.
Ning Jiujiu spread his hands and said, "How did I know?"
Lu Married said: "Where is the promised robber that everyone recommends? Now that Xiaoling is with her, you don't care. Huh, on New Year's Eve, everyone betrayed their relatives and separated. There is really nothing more pitiful."
Ning Changjiu smiled and consoled him: "We'll look for you after the New Year's Eve dinner. It's still a long night."
Lu Marian said: "I'm going to be so angry with you."
While speaking, the waitress came elegantly with the dishes, bent slightly, and placed them on the table in order, with meticulous movements.
Lu Marry's eyes were still wandering among the people in the building.
Snap.
Ning Jiujiu suddenly reached out and grabbed the waitress's wrist.
"I caught you." Ning smiled for a long time.
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(This book was first published on Zongheng Chinese website qwq)