Chang Yi fell asleep for a long time. After waking up, he looked at the black fox fire in front of him, stunned for a while, and then realized what happened to him.
Chang Yi turned his head and looked straight into the eyes of Ji Yunhe beside him.
Ji Yunhe didn't sleep all night, his eyes were a little dry and red.
The two stared at each other for a long while. He didn't open his mouth to explain what happened to his sudden drowsiness. Even now, this big-tailed fish is not good at lying, and Ji Yunhe didn't force him. Whether it was the truth or a lie, she didn't want to force him to tell it.
So after a long silence, Ji Yunhe first twitched his lips and smiled: "It's almost dawn." She pretended to be relaxed, "Big tail fish, time with you always goes by too fast. "
She didn't ask, Changyi's eyes drooped slightly, and her slender eyelashes, like butterfly wings, gently fanned. He didn't say a word, just stretched out his hand and gently hugged Ji Yunhe into his arms.
Under the bright moon, the black fox fire burned silently, the two cuddled with each other, and no one broke the silence.
Until the moon had sunk, the morning glow appeared on the horizon. The appearance of sunlight tore apart the dreamlike night, leaving them nowhere to escape from the dark night, but to return to reality.
Chang Yi let go of Ji Yunhe, Ji Yunhe helped him trim the silver hair on his temples, and the silver hair wrapped around her fingertips, as if he was making a final entanglement with her: "It's time for you to go back to the north."
Ji Yunhe's fingertips left her hair, and her words finally left her lips.
Chang Yi nodded and stood up: "I will go back and discuss with Kongming and a few people about the boundary situation, and I will be able to make a detailed rule soon." Chang Yi said, "There are many things on the road, pay attention to safety."
He stood up and called Qu Xiaoxing, but Ji Yunhe behind him called him first: "Changyi."
When Chang Yi turned back, his silver hair turned, reflecting the newborn sun, making him look as beautiful as an exiled immortal from heaven.
Ji Yunhe admired his own painting and said with a smile, "Wait for this, then marry me."
The blue pupils opened slightly.
When Qu Xiaoxing, who was running to pick him up, heard these words, he immediately stopped, and his eyes moved between Ji Yunhe and Chang Yi.
The spring wind was still a bit cold, but the cool wind passed behind Ji Yunhe, and when it blew towards Chang Yi, it was already a bit warm. It seems to be able to melt the ice in his blood.
"I..." Chang Yi opened his mouth, his voice a little hoarse, "I can't marry you yet." He lowered his eyelids, his eyelashes were like fans, casting a shadow under his eyes.
This answer is a bit surprising. Qu Xiaoxing bit his thumb nervously, paying attention to Ji Yunhe's expression. However, seeing Ji Yunhe's expression as usual, there was no turbulence, and there seemed to be no pain in being rejected, she even said:
"You gave me a mark, and in the rules of your merman, you have already considered marrying me."
Qu Xiaoxing looked at Changyi again.
Instead, Changyi was like the one who was rejected. He frowned, stared at the ground, pondered, and thought about it for a long time: "It doesn't count in human rules."
"I'm not human anymore."
"You're not a mermaid either."
"But you are a merman, and you should abide by the rules of a merman."
Ji Yunhe answered quickly, Changyi's brows furrowed even tighter, he pondered for a longer time, and continued to think carefully, obviously there was no good way to deal with Ji Yunhe's words.
The sun was about to rise, and Qu Xiaoxing even felt a little distressed when he saw it.
Qu Xiaoxing knew it too well. In the verbal battle with Ji Yunhe, there were only a few people in the world who could win. Her brain is too fast, her mouth is too eloquent, and she tricks this relatively simple merman, and the solid one is called a small test knife.
"I... still can't marry you."
In the end, the merman didn't say why, so he dropped such a sentence in a daze.
A straightforward refusal, rude but powerful.
Sure enough, Ji Yunhe is as eloquent as Ji Yunhe, and under this kind of "honest person", there is no use for the three-inch tongue. All crushed to death, smashed to pieces.
In fact, the reasons for Changyi's rejection of Ji Yunhe were well known to the three present - he didn't know how long he could live, and he was afraid of delaying Ji Yunhe. But the long-term meaning was not specified, and neither did the others.
He said he couldn't marry, and he didn't give reasons, Ji Yunhe looked at him. Chang Yi could feel Ji Yunhe's gaze, he lowered his eyes like a child who did something wrong, waiting for Ji Yunhe to question him.
But Changyi didn't know that his silent appearance was enough to make Ji Yunhe feel so distressed that his chest was like a heavy stone.
"Then I'll ask you again next time."
Ji Yunhe didn't ask any more questions, he just said, "If you don't agree next time, I'll ask again next time, long-term meaning, there will always be a day when you agree."
Chang Yi was stunned and looked at Ji Yunhe, but Ji Yunhe had already turned around at this time, waved his hand, and left: "Today, I'm busy rushing to the next pass to lay down the barrier, and I'm leaving."
The morning sun shone all over the earth, and in the sunlight, Ji Yunhe's back figure as he walked away seemed to be covered with a thin layer of gold.
"Respected lord?" Qu Xiaoxing and the others could no longer see Ji Yunhe's back, so he walked up to Changyi and asked him, "Go back?"
"I almost agreed." Changyi's blue pupils were still looking at the direction Ji Yunhe was leaving, and he was a little lost, "Almost..."
He lowered his head and looked at his fingertips. On his fingertips, the frost was all over, almost sealing his fingers. Chang Yi clenched his fist. Snowflakes falling from the sky.
He said, "Go back."
…
"Ten days." Kong Ming said these two words while packing up the silver needles.
Of course Changyi knew what he was talking about.
It was only ten days before his body was completely frozen by the frost.
After learning about this time, on the way back, the thought that had just started was immediately extinguished.
Getting married is a big event for both mermaids and humans. In fact, if there were no such external disturbances, he really should be preparing for this now. He gave Ji Yunhe his mark and kissed her...
Thinking of the few touches in the past, those pictures and touches are vivid in my mind, and I suddenly felt that my body that was getting colder warmed up for a moment.
Kong Ming glanced at Chang Yi. Recently, Kong Ming's mood has also been very low. He did not sneer as usual, but said to Chang Yi, "What are you thinking about?"
"Ji Yunhe." Changyi said without hesitation.
"Think about her more, it's good for your body." Kong Ming said, "Just now your face turned ruddy."
Chang Yi coughed and suppressed the restlessness in his heart: "Today... Before I came back, Yun He told me to let me marry her."
Kong Ming's next meal: "Now?"
"She said, just wait for this."
"You can't wait, you can do it now." Kong Ming said, going out with something, "The barrier at the border can't be stopped, but she can take a long time to come back. Hurry up and settle a worry." He After a pause, "Time waits for no one. If you miss it, there may be no future." He said the last sentence, but he seemed to remember his own affairs.
Changyi is not good at comforting people, and feels that Kongming doesn't need his comfort, so he just silently handed Kongming a cup of tea.
Kong Ming raised his hand and refused, looked at Chang Yi's expression, and said, "You look like this, don't you want to marry?"
"I don't want to delay her."
"You two have wasted so many years, I don't think it's time to toss anymore." Kong Ming got up and started to go out, "If Ji Yunhe is going to die instead, will you marry her? Do you think it's a delay?"
Chang Yi was stunned for a moment, as if Daigo was empowered.
He stood up and was about to say something, but just as Kongming opened the door, Ji Yunhe, who was outside, stepped in in one step.
Chang Yi was startled, but saw Ji Yunhe say to Kongming, "I know it works for you." Ji Yunhe patted Kongming's shoulder, "As long as you don't feel sorry for Luo Jinsang in the future, there is something she can't figure out, I'll come. advise."
Kong Ming glanced at Ji Yunhe: "I said these words, not for you." After saying that, he went out and closed the door.
Ji Yunhe smiled and looked at the closed door behind him, then turned to look at Chang Yi in front of him.
His eyes were facing each other, and when the candle flames jumped, Ji Yunhe curled his lips into a smile, and his expression was calm after the vicissitudes of life.
"Big Tail Fish, I have come to the end of my life, so I know what I will regret and regret at the last moment. Don't blame me for the tricks. I just really don't want to waste any more time and continue to waste time." Ji Yunhe said, "I am now If you want to marry me, what you want is not your name, but your identity. This identity is not important to me now, because what is important to me now is you, but your long-term meaning..." She paused, her lips still carrying He continued with a smile:
"In the time without you, this identity is very important to me."
In the time without him, she will use his own name and his surname. Even if one day her memory is too dim to remember the past, her name and identity will help her remember.
This is a trace of long-term meaning in her life.
Ji Yunhe wanted to carve this trace in his soul.
"It's not a delay," she said. "It's a fulfillment."