Li Zhiqing and the man looked at each other for a while, and slowly came to his senses, the first reaction was that the movements of the two of them sitting and kneeling now seemed a bit wrong, blinked and thought about it again, he was half-kneeling and holding his face. It was even more wrong.
The man's face was stern and his gaze was burning. Li Zhiqing gradually became ashamed of being stared at. He hurriedly raised his chin and raised his head back. At the same time, he raised his hand to block the man's hands, and cleared his throat with his eyes aside: "...Thank you."
It was true that the other party helped him just now, and he thanked him very sincerely.
Following Li Zhiqing's strength, the man lowered his hand, looked around his face, saw that his complexion was not good, and frowned: "You are not feeling well." Then he stretched out two fingers and aimed at Li Zhiqing's forehead Come on.
Li Zhiqing's face still had the cool warmth from the man's hand. Although he didn't have any charming thoughts in his heart, he still felt embarrassed after being touched so intimately by the other party. When the man moved again, he subconsciously turned his head to avoid it, and blurted out: "I'm fine!"
The man paused his fingertips in response, and slowly withdrew his hands without changing his expression. He looked at him without blinking, his appearance was quiet.
"I'm sorry." After Li Zhiqing finished speaking, he also felt that he had reacted too much, and lowered his eyelashes to apologize to him, "I was a little scared, and I haven't recovered yet. It's not against you."
The man pursed his lips, with a faint smile in his eyes: "Yeah."
After "um", he suddenly thought of something, his smile subsided, and he said in a low voice, "I'm sorry."
This "I'm sorry" came unexpectedly and inexplicably, Li Zhiqing was stunned, why did he suddenly apologize for no reason
"I'm sorry." The man thought he didn't hear clearly, and repeated it again.
Li Zhiqing was confused, pointed at himself, and tilted his head in doubt, did you say this to him
The man nods.
"You helped me." Seeing that he was about to open his mouth again, Li Zhiqing hurriedly said, "Why did you apologize to me?"
The man lowered his head and was silent for a moment. He didn't dare to look at him when he answered: "I'll come out with you."
Li Zhiqing was stunned again: "You have been following me?"
"I didn't," the man raised his eyes, as if to defend himself, "I came here because you had an accident."
Obviously the other party has no expression on his face, but Li Zhiqing can vaguely see some urgency, he always feels that he should pat his head to comfort him at this time, curling his fingertips again and again, he resisted not really raising his hand: " Well, thanks for coming."
He thought about it, but still didn't understand what this had to do with apologizing, thinking it was a man who didn't understand normal human communication in this situation, and explained to him: "I apologized to you just now because I was a little rude to you. You helped me, there is no need to say sorry at all."
He looked straight at him like a male elementary school student, and then explained a few more words to him.
The man is still very unaccustomed to expressing words. Currently, he can't speak clearly like Li Zhiqing. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he couldn't keep up with the speed of the other party's speech. After digesting the information in the words, he frowned and shook his head, and said after a few seconds: "It is necessary."
Li Zhiqing's mouth was a little dry, did the other party not understand after he said so much
"You let me stay inside the door." If it weren't for the flash in his eyes, the man would be like an exquisite statue at this moment.
His understanding is that since Li Zhiqing locked him in the door in the morning, he just hoped that he would not come out without permission, so after the whole day, the man really resisted the urge to come out to find someone, and stood peacefully in the bookstore without making a fuss. Walk.
But in the evening, the situation changed, he stood behind the door and endured until he couldn't bear it any longer before he walked here. After being reminded by Li Zhiqing's "I'm sorry", he realized that he seemed to have made a mistake.
Li Zhiqing choked for words, stared at those dark eyes for a long time, felt amused when he was helpless: "I just closed the door of the shop, and didn't lock it, can you still come out from inside?"
"No." There is progress, this time you don't have to nod and shake your head to answer.
"That's it." Li Zhiqing was a little relieved at his progress, "I never said that you had to stay in the store, you acted like you were going to stick to me all the time, I just didn't want you to go outside Still follow me."
The man was stunned for a moment, then he understood: "Okay."
Li Zhiqing heaved a sigh of relief, the coldness that had stuck to his body surface had almost dissipated, and his body was no longer stiff. He tried to stand up with his knees propped up, but his calves and ankles became weak together, and his head felt like it was about to have a fever. The dull feeling, the buttocks just left the stage and then stuck back.
The man hesitated and stretched out his hand, wanting to touch his forehead, but afraid that Li Zhiqing would dodge again: "Don't move."
There is a separation between yin and yang, strong and weak, different forces, in Li Zhiqing's situation, the one who has been flushed out of anger is naturally the one who is affected.
He didn't hide this time, the man's fingertips were about to leave at the slightest touch, leaving behind an inexplicable feeling, when he drilled into the veins along the limbs and bones, it was not gentler than last night, with a tingling pain like a needle, but It was only a momentary thing, and after the pain faded, the physical fatigue condition improved a lot.
Li Zhiqing twitched the corner of his mouth in pain: "Thank you."
The man stood up with him: "I'll take you back."
"My friend is still waiting outside, I want to go find him first." Now that there is not much twilight left, Li Zhiqing glanced at the remaining section of the street, not only afraid that he would regret it, but he also couldn't bear to let the man stay with him .
However, the other party didn't intend to leave him here alone. After hearing what he said, the man turned to the left and turned his back to Li Zhiqing under the two steps.
Li Zhiqing couldn't imagine what it would be like to be 1.8 meters tall being carried on the back by a big man, so he hurriedly took a step back: "Don't worry, I'm fine, I can walk by myself."
The man didn't compromise this time, he just stared at him without moving his feet.
Li Zhiqing stared at him for a long while, then said helplessly: "...I'm afraid of losing my life."
He didn't have the guts to lie on the back of a dragon.
"No." The man seemed to laugh.
Li Zhiqing was in a stalemate with him, looked at by those eyes, and when he finally wrapped his arms around the man's neck, he was in a daze, feeling guilty that he was promising, and he could use the future Uncle Long as a mount.
When he was afraid before, he held the copper coins too tightly. The paper bag was wet and limp with sweat, and the edge was a little cracked. The man was about to lift him up completely, but Li Zhiqing's fingers didn't tighten, and the copper coins fell out along the gap, aiming at Qing The slab was about to fall.
The man quickly caught it for him, and found the gap on the copper coin: "It's broken."
Li Zhiqing took the copper coin back and sighed through his nose: "Yes, but I have been with me for many years, so I don't want to throw it away."
The man looked at the incomplete copper coin, then at the bare braided rope around his wrist, turned his right hand, and handed out a black disc.
Li Zhiqing didn't see what it was, but only blinked his eyes to find that the disc had replaced the copper coin and hung at the lower end of the braided rope. Although it was about the same size and thickness as the copper coin, it was much lighter in weight.
"...Give it to me?" Li Zhiqing was picked up by him, holding the disc and looking it over carefully.
This thing should be deliberately polished into a round shape, the edges are very delicate, and the inside is closely connected with fine line textures, buried deep in the dark dark color, the whole feels hard but flexible, and the surface is dull and smooth, even Even the finest jade that has been nourished by people for many years can hardly achieve this texture.
"This is...?" He pinched it hard again and asked doubtfully.
"Lin," the man picked him up on his back, and replied calmly, "Mine."
Li Zhiqing was so frightened that his heart trembled: "Lin?! Yours?!"
Did he wear those greasy-looking scales on his hands? !
The man gave a "hmm" and said as he walked forward, "It's better than that."
Whether it was before or now, those so-called safe jade utensils are no different from children's toys in his eyes. If Li Zhiqing insists on wearing something, his scales are better than those tinkling things.
Of course, there are some that are more suitable than scales.
"It's okay if you don't wear it." He lowered his voice when he said this, and he was a little embarrassed to be boastful. He deleted the three words "I'm the best" in his throat, "I'm here."
Li Zhiqing didn't notice the man's embarrassment, he stared at the round scale, even though he knew that such things should be quite rare, he couldn't help but tremble.
He let go of looking at it, folded his wrists on the man's chest, and whispered "thank you" in his ear.
The young man's breath when he opened his mouth was like a cub's tender claws timidly protruding out of the shell, rubbing back and forth on the man's ear, itching straight into his heart.
He lowered his eyes, resisting the desire to look back, and just walked forward slowly.
"May I ask you a few questions?" Li Zhiqing realized that his perception of men had been following Tang Shunshi's thoughts, and he hadn't really confirmed his purpose to the man.
The man responded: "Yes."
"Taoists say, 'Anyone with nine orifices can cultivate immortality'." After being attacked by Yin Qi, the symptoms of brain fever gradually appeared. Li Zhiqing felt that his eyes were hot, and he probably had a low-grade fever. "You also belong to this category." ?”
The man knew that Li Zhiqing wanted to ask if he was interested in immortality, but he was strictly different from those true wandering immortals, so he was suddenly stopped by the question, and he paused for a moment before answering: "Yes."
He is different from the Five Immortals, and it is not possible to express it clearly in a few words after careful study, but since he thinks that he is the same person as Xiaoxian is Li Zhiqing, he simply follows what he can understand simply, and does not mind his status being downgraded again and again.
"You came to me, not for your own cultivation..." Li Zhiqing almost said that he was cultivating immortals.
The man was puzzled: "Practice."
"That's... you have cultivated to a certain level, you need to cross the catastrophe, and sometimes you may need... to seek help from humans?" Li Zhiqing rubbed his hot eyes.
The man understood: "I have no way out."
"Isn't that why you came to me?"
"No." The man seemed to smile slightly.
"You don't need me to do anything, and you don't need me to give you anything."
"unnecessary."
The feeling of dizziness became more and more obvious, Li Zhiqing's eyelids began to twitch: "You don't need anything, why do you insist on staying?"
The other party repeated the answer from the morning: "You are here."
"There is no difference between you saying this and not saying anything." Li Zhiqing muttered softly.
The man was silent, and after a while he said, "I want to protect you."
"… why?"
The man lowered his eyes, and he rarely spoke a long sentence, with a vague sense of calmness in his words: "Heaven protects you selfishly, and there is no need for a reason."
Li Zhiqing was shocked by the word "Heavenly Dao", and then remembered his own fate that was asserted since he was a child, he clenched his fingertips: "If it's me?"
The smell on the man's body was clear and pleasant, and he felt very comfortable being enveloped by this breath.
Not only the smell, but something indescribable seems to be slowly seeping into every cell.
The intense satisfaction that arises is like playing with the Rubik's Cube for 20 years. After turning it around day after day, it suddenly spells out several unified and complete colors, and all the gaps are filled.
Both mental and physical were gradually relaxed in this indescribable comfortable state. His head lowered lower and lower, and finally reached the solid shoulders below him. Before the man could conceive an answer, his eyes closed unconsciously.
The man walked steadily, as if once he carried him on his back, he couldn't help being cautious when he even raised his feet.
He replied, "It's up to you."
It's a pity that the people on the back didn't hear it.
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Li Zhiqing: You don't need anything
Old Dragon God: Hmm... ok.
Li Zhiqing: Right
Old Dragon God: I'm sorry I lied, I don't need nothing, I need you especially.
Suddenly realized that I might have written the biggest age difference, and also wrote an article in the entertainment industry with the slowest career progress. I was so scared that I hugged my little computer. Fairies, don’t dislike me, I let Laolong God wagged his tail for you to see!
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