"Why do you live here? Are you from the Gabriel family?" Paladin had a fever last night and did not fall asleep until dawn, but was awakened by a little boy a short while later.
The little boy's voice was like a running mountain spring. Although it was loud, it was not annoying.
Paladin opened his eyes and was stunned for a moment.
This little boy's eyes are the most beautiful he has ever seen, like the finest sapphires, bright and clean, deep and far away, like the grace of God, and even give people the illusion of shimmering, and his eyes Her hair was a golden color that was more dazzling than Hill Gabriel's, and it shone like the sun in this stone house that had never been illuminated by sunlight.
Paladin dropped his eyes after just one look.
He hates this man.
Being able to enter this secret room, he has blond hair and blue eyes, maybe he is the heir of the Gabriel family.
The little boy saw that the beautiful brother didn't speak or pay attention to him, but turned over and continued to sleep. He was a little anxious, turned to the other side, tilted his head and pouted his small mouth, his blue eyes were full of doubts: "Brother Why don't you speak? My name is Yelian, what's your name?"
It's so noisy!
Paladin was so troubled by the little devil, and didn't want to pay attention to him, he threw the quilt over his head, wrapped himself up in a ball and continued to sleep.
Ye Lian felt a little sad, and poked Paladin's back desperately. Paladin lifted the quilt and sat up straight, trying to yell at the little boy, but found that his throat could hardly speak after the fever last night .
"You... so noisy..."
Ye Lian was very happy to get Paladin's response. Even though Paladin is frowning now and looks unfriendly, beauties always have some privileges, so Ye Lian continued to ask with a smile: "Brother, what are you talking about? I listen I don't quite understand."
As soon as the words came out, Paladin was stunned for a moment. It turned out that his voice was not hoarse, but that he hadn't spoken for a long time. Can only issue dull words.
"I'll give you nectar." Seeing that the man ignored him again, Ye Lian took out a handful of red wild flowers from his pocket, stuffed them into Paladin's hands, and stuffed another one into his mouth, "Look, So take a sip... and you'll have the sweet nectar."
Ye Lian's indistinct voice reached Paladin's ears, causing him to pick up a flower like a ghost, put it in his mouth, and inhale lightly.
"Sweet..." Paladin almost burst into tears. This sweet taste is very familiar in his memory, but it is far away, like a feast hundreds of years ago, and only a few pens can be seen in the history books. recorded.
"It's delicious, right? I'll give you all my nectar, can you tell me your name?"
Yelian's eyes lit up, and he raised the price on the spot. Paladin was finally willing to raise his eyes to look at this person: "My name is... Paladin..."
"Paladin? This means knight, my teacher told me!" Without checking for a while, Paladin was grabbed by Ye Lian, "The teacher said that I will become a powerful paladin in the future!"
Paladin? The heirs of the Gabriel family would not become paladins. Isn't this child from the Gabriel family
"You are..." Paladin opened his mouth to ask the little boy for more information, but he saw the little boy stand up in a panic: "Someone is here, I have to go, I will come to play with you next time!"
Paladin stretched out his hand, but he could only see that the little boy lifted a floor tile at the corner of the door and escaped from the small secret passage.
Even if he saw the hope of going out, there was no hope in Paladin's gloomy eyes—the tunnel was too far away from him, and it would be useless for him to go out.
Where can he go
"I will accept the prophecy on your head today, do you know! Priest Kalis said that I will definitely become a paladin in the future!"
Callis? The real heir of the Gabriel family.
Paladin was leaning on the bed, casually flipping through the astrology book, listening to Ye Lian's fuss, and occasionally "hmm", "I see", "I'm listening" perfunctory Ye Lian.
After that day, the little boy often crawled out of the hole, came to play with him, chat with him, and would bring a handful of red wild flowers every day to share nectar with him.
Palatine didn't know where he got so many wild red flowers, and he didn't know what he wanted to do in this stone house all day long. There was nothing here that could interest children.
"Paladin, you didn't listen to me at all!" Ye Lian was not stupid. Hearing Paladin's perfunctory answer, he angrily took away the book from Paladin's hand. Paladin looked up and saw this little devil who was fearless There are actually two bags of tears in the blue eyes, and they are spinning in the eye sockets, "Today is my birthday...you ignore me... woo..."
As he was talking, Yelian seemed to feel that he was so pitiful. Ye Lian actually started to cry. This crying made Paladin bewildered, and he hurriedly searched for a handkerchief to wipe his tears: "Don't cry... Do you tell stories?"
Children should love to listen to stories, right? When he was in the monastery, the little nuns used to pester him to let him tell stories.
Ye Lian sobbed a few times, and pointed to his forehead: "I don't want to listen to the story, I want you to kiss me."
Paladin froze for a moment, but still moved to the side of the bed and gave Ye Lian a "click" on the forehead.
Ye Lian got the kiss he wanted, his cheeks were flushed, his sapphire eyes sparkled with excitement, he raised his head and looked at Paladin: "The teacher said, kiss on the forehead means you care, now you are the one who cares about me gone."
"Is today your birthday?" Paladin touched Ye Lian's blond hair, feeling the smoothness of the blond hair under his hands. Even though there was no warmth in the hair, Paladin still felt that he had touched a ball of sunshine.
Yelian nodded desperately: "I sneaked out after the dinner party!"
"Then it's night now..." Paladin felt a little regretful, but felt that it was unnecessary. Anyway, day and night had no effect on him, and he didn't need to know whether it was day or night outside.
"Have you ever seen the sun?" Ye Lian took an inch, flipped off his shoes and lifted the quilt, and lay down in the warm bed of Paladin, "I knew you hadn't, so I brought you a present today."
"I've seen... a gift?" Paladin raised his voice at the end, did the little devil bring him a gift
Ye Lian was a little shy, and took out a piece of crumpled drawing paper from his pocket: "This is my first painting, which is about sunshine, and I give it to you."
Paladin opened the drawing paper, only to see that the whole page was covered with yellow paint. In some places, the paint was so heavily applied that it hadn't even dried completely.
Paladin: "..."
Enough yellow, this work must be zero.
Sure enough, Ye Lian sighed: "The teacher said that I don't have the talent to draw. He draws shit better than what I draw. How can he be so rude?"
Your teacher is telling the truth.
Paladin couldn't bear to hit him, so he could only carefully put away the drawing paper, and praised him unconscionably: "I like it very much... Thank you..."
"Really!" Ye Lian was very excited, pulling Paladin's clothes, "Then you also have to draw a picture for me, and then you have to hang this picture on the wall to show your love for me!"
"Okay." Paladin agreed with a gentle smile.
When the guards of the Gabriel family came to deliver the food the next morning, Paladin made an unprecedented request, saying that he wanted a drawing board, a picture frame, and some paints for painting. The guard told Hill Gabriel his request.
"Give it to him."
So Paladin received what he wanted in the afternoon as he wished.
At night, when Ye Lian sneaked out of the tunnel again, he saw Paladin rarely got out of bed and nailed something on the wall. However, after just a few taps, Paladin was so tired that he was sweating. Ye Lian took a look A piece of yellow paper on the wall, and looking at Paladin who looked at him tenderly after hearing the movement, I just felt that something ran into my heart, like the nectar that he ate with Paladin when he first met him , sweet.
It made him a little flustered, but he didn't want to find out the reason, he just wanted to be willing to indulge in this sweetness forever.
The guard who delivered the food the next day saw the words on the wall and was a little puzzled, so he found his companion and discussed the painting—
"The man in the Chamber of Secrets painted a picture."
"How is it? Does it look good?"
"I don't understand."
"No, it's my turn to be on duty tomorrow, so I'll go and have a look."
When all the guards took turns to read the yellow picture on the wall, they still didn't understand what Paladin drew.
They just didn't see a line of small black characters in the corner of the picture, which was written by Paladin—["Sunshine" Ye Lian gave Paladin on his birthday]
A few days later, Paladin fulfilled his promise and sent Ye Lian a painting—
"What is the painting you sent me? Why can't I understand it?"
"The name of the painting is Yelian's Hair"
"But all I see is a patch of yellow."
"Oh, because your hair is like sunshine."
"..."
Ye Lian sniffed and started rolling on the bed: "I don't want it, I don't want it...you bully me..."
"Okay, okay, I'll draw you again..."
Perhaps because of Yelian, Paladin began to feel that the life in the secret room became more joyful. Yelian was like a little sun, shining sometimes, sometimes soaring into the sky, like a never-ending firework, illuminating his gradually withering life.
It appeared when he was sad and painful, lost and desperate, and dying, bringing him the warmest memories.
But he is always going to wither.
No matter how bright the sun is, it is impossible to bring back a dying rose. Even letting him wither little by little in the warm sunshine is better than eternal life in the dark, but... the person who owns the rose will be very sad.
But he can only bury his rose with tears and cries.