"Where's Artest?" Hong Jun slept next to Li Jinglong.
Li Jinglong's body is no longer as warm as before, like a stove, his weak constitution makes his hands and feet cold, and the bed is like an ice cave.
"I got separated when I escaped from Luoyang." Li Jinglong said, "I must be looking for us."
Hong Jun didn't ask any more questions, Li Jinglong just opened his eyes in a daze all night, Hong Jun didn't dare to ask what he would do in the future.
How to do? It has become like this, and An Lushan's troops don't know where they are fighting; in Luoyang City, what is the reason for Li Jinglong's failure; why does Fudo Mingwang appear when he is mobilizing the earth's veins... All of this, Hong Jun dare not say more ask.
He looked up at Li Jinglong, he couldn't even pillow on his arm like before, because he still had a splint wrapped around his shoulder.
"Is it warmer?" Hong Jun asked.
"It's much better." Li Jinglong replied.
Hong Jun gently hugged Li Jinglong's waist, put the phoenix feather on his chest, and warmed him with his own body temperature.
"When you get better, I'll take you back to Yaojin Palace." Hong Jun said, "Chongming and Qingxiong must have a solution."
"I have no shame." Li Jinglong replied in a low voice.
Hong Jun said: "I have no face to go home."
When he left last time, Hong Jun also knew that he had broken Chongming's heart, and now he wanted to take Li Jinglong back to ask Chongming to try to heal him, which probably made him even more angry. Besides, on weekdays, he followed Li Jinglong and ignored his adoptive father. Now that his lover has been hurt so badly, he has to go home and beg for rebirth... Hong Jun couldn't help but feel sick to himself.
"But I don't regret it." Hong Jun said again.
"I'm sorry." Li Jinglong whispered.
"Stop talking." Hong Jun said, "Jing Long, cheer up! You are not like this!"
"You're right." Li Jinglong slowly closed his eyes and let out a tired breath. Just when Hong Jun thought he was going to cheer up, Li Jinglong said, "I've thought a lot these days, don't you think it's not like me?"
Hong Jun frowned, and looked at Li Jinglong in surprise, Li Jinglong said, "Actually, this is the real me."
Li Jinglong sighed and said, "I never mentioned to you, the moment after I got the heart lamp."
Hong Jun asked in surprise, "What do you mean?"
"That feeling is indescribable." Li Jinglong closed his eyes and murmured, "It seems that my whole world has lit up..."
"When?" Hong Jun realized that something was wrong.
"What kind of person do you think I was in the past?" Li Jinglong asked suddenly.
Hong Jun said: "You are the best."
Li Jinglong remained silent. Hong Jun really felt that Li Jinglong was a very good person. He was kind, brave, smart, decisive, and firmly believed in ideals. In Hong Jun's eyes, he could almost be described as perfect.
"But I know it in my heart." Li Jinglong whispered, "I was not like this before."
"What?" Hong Jun suddenly remembered something that completely changed the fate of the two of them.
Sure enough, Li Jinglong said: "That was after I got the heart lamp. To be exact, it was after I met you."
Hong Jun's breathing became rapid. Li Jinglong said again: "When is the limit? Maybe when I opened my eyes in Pingkang and saw you appearing in front of me, I had this feeling. When it's time for you..."
"...It's like a ray of light shines into my heart." Li Jinglong said, "What I used to care about and care about has become no longer important..."
Hong Jun has heard a lot about Li Jinglong's past. Except for the members of the Exorcist Division, anyone who saw him with Li Jinglong had a strange look in their eyes, as if they were vaguely laughing, but also seemed to understand. . Moreover, he also knew that Li Jinglong had offended a lot of people since he was a boy. Even when facing the emperor, concubines, ministers, and officials, he always looked indifferent, which is why he was so depressed.
But after he started to lead the Exorcism Department, he seemed to be very prosperous, as if what he had heard was not the same as the Li Jinglong he had actually seen.
"Now that feeling is back again." Li Jinglong said, "It's heavy, it's on my heart."
Can the power of the heart lamp change a person so strongly? Hong Jun has never heard Qingxiong say it, so if the heart lamp disappeared, where did it go? He frowned and looked at Li Jinglong.
"So the heart lamp disappeared, do you feel... a little uncomfortable?" Hong Jun looked at Li Jinglong puzzled.
"I have become a mortal again." Li Jinglong whispered to Hongjun, "What you see, the me I used to be, are all illusions given to me by the heart lamp, and that is not the real me."
"Then... what is the real you like?" Hong Jun asked suspiciously.
"Cowardly, selfish, and lustful." Li Jinglong said in a deep voice, "I gave up halfway, so happy, incompetent... The only thing I am proud of is my background, plus my archery. Now I don't even have martial arts."
"So?" Hong Jun said.
Li Jinglong turned his head slightly with difficulty, looked at Hong Jun, his eyes were red. Hong Jun leaned forward and kissed him.
Li Jinglong: "..."
Li Jinglong's eyes widened suddenly, this was the first time Hong Jun kissed him so actively and passionately. When Li Jinglong was kissed, his mind went blank for an instant, and his heart beat wildly.
Li Jinglong: "Well..."
Li Jinglong's original intention may be to say that the current I am not worthy of you, or that the current I cannot protect you, or other depressing words, but Hong Jun's kiss was like a storm, without the slightest hesitation, with a strong and domineering The way violated him.
Li Jinglong: "Okay, listen to me..." Before the sentence was finished, Hong Jun didn't dare to touch his chest, but put his hands on the side of the pillow, pressing on him weakly, which only made Li Jinglong take a breath, and another round deep kiss.
Li Jinglong often dotes on Hong Jun, but he never thought that once this guy becomes stubborn, he will destroy the world. It is already beyond his power to raise his hand to push Hong Jun away, and it is even difficult to turn his head away. Provocative, like entering no one's land, he forcibly held Li Jinglong's neck and kissed for nearly a quarter of an hour.
Li Jinglong was almost out of breath, dizzy in his mind, his mood improved again before this merciless kiss, and when he was about to push Hong Jun away, Hong Jun ruthlessly blocked his lips, Until Li Jinglong's consciousness became blurred.
While kissing him, Hong Jun reached out to touch his body, touched his sticky hand, and was startled.
"You..." Hong Jun suddenly burst out laughing.
Li Jinglong has been holding back for too long, unable to move his whole body, but the feeling is still there. After being kissed by Hong Jun, he was so complacent and fascinated, and then he was touched like that, almost released uncontrollably the moment he was touched.
Li Jinglong: "..."
Li Jinglong's face was flushed, and finally there was some blood on his face, and he was still panting slightly.
Hong Jun said: "No matter what you become, your kung fu is still very good, and your words are still great."
When Li Jinglong was helpless, when he heard this suddenly, he couldn't help laughing, laughed a few times, and immediately touched the fracture, and moaned: "It hurts."
Hong Jun jumped out of bed, boiled hot water, uncovered the quilt, and wiped Li Jinglong's body. His body was still the same as before, with the peacock tattoo still on his strong chest. Hong Jun lowered his head, kissed the tattoo, and then kissed Li Jinglong's lips.
"You either?" Li Jinglong asked.
"Come back when you are better." Hong Jun said so, but his eyes kept glancing at Li Jinglong's naked male body, and Li Jinglong couldn't help feeling ashamed. After a while, Hong Jun still couldn't hold back, took off his clothes, lay down beside Li Jinglong, and solved it with his hands.
"Hongjun." Li Jinglong said softly.
Hong Jun wiped the two of them clean, and pulled the quilt over them, like a good boy.
"I'll protect you in the future." Hong Jun said, "Stop thinking about it." He yawned, separated Li Jinglong's big hand with his fingers, interlocked his fingers, and fell asleep.
In the kitchen, Chao Yun whispered, "Hey, Zhao Zilong, His Highness seems to have woken up."
The carp demon lay on his side on the still hot stove, turned over and said, "I'll talk to you tomorrow."
Chao Yun said, "Tell me, will he accept us?"
"Yes." The carp demon replied, "He even forgave me, how could he not accept you?"
Chao Yun was still a little worried, and the carp demon said again: "You have made great contributions to rescuing Li Jinglong, and he will give you whatever you want, let alone being his subordinate?"
Chaoyun repeatedly confirmed Hongjun's character, temper, and what he liked to hear, and the carp demon repeatedly comforted him. Our family didn't have as many things as An Lushan, so Chaoyun lay down under the stove and fell asleep anxiously.
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the severe cold in Shan County was almost freezing, and the north wind was howling outside. In the early morning of the next day, several people moved into Li Jinglong's room, and warmed themselves by a piece of phoenix feathers. Lu Xu was still shivering a little outside, so the wolf stretched out its claws, and pulled him towards him.
"Do you have to become like this?" Lu Xu said numbly.
"To keep out the cold." The wolf said in a low voice, and touched Lu Xu with his chest full of soft fur.
"It's so cold here." Hong Jun said.
"The main reason is that there is no popularity within a hundred miles." Li Jinglong said weakly, "Chang'an is prosperous, and there are many people, so it doesn't feel cold. This village is on a plain, and there is no shelter."
Hong Jun tried his best to hug Li Jinglong, put the quilt and pillows behind him, let him sit down, and the carp demon came in and set out the dishes.
"There are still fish!" Hong Jun said.
"Didn't you not allow carp to be eaten?" Lu Xu said to the carp demon.
"I can't help it." The carp demon said, "In special times, there are even cannibals outside."
Everyone: "..."
The carp demon said to Hongjun: "There is a monster who saved the second child and wants to come in and get to know you, is that okay?"
Having said that, Hong Jun remembered that he heard from Lu Xu last night that at the critical moment, it was the snake demon who rescued Li Jinglong. He hurriedly said, "Where is the benefactor?"
"En Yao." The carp demon corrected, "It's waiting outside."
Hong Jun hurriedly said, please, Chao Yun was blowing cold wind outside, hearing the words came in, Chao Hongjun bowed, Hong Jun hurriedly said: "I should thank you!"
Hong Jun also knelt down to Chaoyun, and Chaoyun lost his soul, and screamed: "No way! Your Highness! It's my fault!"
"Okay, okay." The carp demon said, "Why does this look like worship?"
The two just got up, and Hongjun thanked Chaoyun again, Chaoyun couldn't help being humble, and said: "It should be, the prince and concubine are in trouble, we should help each other!"
Hong Jun was feeding Li Jinglong porridge, when Li Jinglong spit out when he heard the words.
It turned out that Chaoyun was a transformed snake in the Miluo River, and originally wanted to cultivate to be a dragon, but he ate the wrong food and cultivated wings. The Shui tribe is not like the Shui tribe, and the Yi tribe is not like the Yi tribe. There are dozens of small snakes in the Xiangjiang River, with the help of his demonic power, they have cultivated into pterosaurs one after another. But since ancient times, to become a dragon, one needs to be an aquarium.
With these two wings sticking out, Chao Yun really didn't know what to do, he couldn't shed them, and he couldn't cut them off by himself.
"Let me take a look?" Hong Jun checked Chaoyun's wings curiously, and compared it with "Fu Yaolu". The book did record Chaoyun's family of snakes.
"What did you eat to grow your wings?" Li Jinglong asked.
Chao Yun rubbed his head, with an expression of "you ask me, I'll ask who to go", it's been a long time, and I can't remember it for a long time.
"No way!" Hong Jun said in shock, "You ate Qu Yuan!"
It is said in the book that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, he was eaten by snakes, and after eating Qu Yuan's snakes, he became a snake... Zhao Yun hurriedly clarified: "No! It's all contrived! I was not born at that time! This year I will be more than 400 years old... "
Hong Jun agreed: "I'll take you to see Chongming then."
Chao Yun said: "I'm afraid they are all birds, we..."
"It's okay." Hong Jun said, "If he doesn't want you, you can follow me, what about the other brothers?"
As if relieved, Zhao Yun finally had a little hope in his eyes, and said: "There are more than sixty brothers, and they all dispersed to distract the pursuers. I told everyone to wait in Jingshui after the matter here is over. "
Hong Jun nodded and accepted Chaoyun, and Chaoyun carefully sat aside, trying to behave better.
Li Jinglong looked at Hongjun for a while, with a smile in his eyes, and the carp demon shared food for everyone, all of which were the food that Chaoyun had found - rice porridge, braised carp, and some fried wild vegetables. After drinking porridge, Li Jinglong regained some strength, and said to Chao Hongjun, "I'll do it myself."
"Can you move?" Mo Zhigen said.
"Reluctantly." Li Jinglong's hands couldn't help shaking, and he held the spoon. The spoon seemed to weigh a thousand catties. He tried his best to bring it to his lips, and there was not much rice porridge left. Hong Jun wanted to feed, but Lu Xu said: "Let him move around, and it will be fine slowly."
Hong Jun looked at Li Jinglong worriedly, and everyone watched him eat for a while.
"You eat yours." Li Jinglong said.
Under the action of Huo Zhuan Dan, Li Jinglong's meridians are being repaired, but even if the repair is completed, he will not be able to return to his previous physical condition.
During this meal, everyone was thinking about their own things for a while, and the room was very quiet. Hong Jun just wanted to find a few words to say, but Lu Xu saw it, and said, "How long do you plan to stay here?"
"Let's wait for Jinglong to recover a little bit more." Hong Jun said.
"Why don't you go back to Yaojin Palace first?" Mo Zhigen said, "It happens that Chaoyun can fly... By the way, can you fly?" He asked Chaoyun again.
"Barely can." Chaoyun replied, "I'm not like a dragon, I can't fly very far, and I have to rest after flying for an hour."
After all, transforming snakes is not like dragons and kuns, golden-winged rocs and other demon kings. When a dragon rises from the clouds and fog, a gust of wind will be formed around its body, which is enough to travel two thousand miles a day, but transforming snakes cannot do it. When it flew back, it could only be blown by the cold wind, and it was freezing, but it was tossing.
"I'm not going." Li Jinglong said to Hongjun, "At least I don't want to go up this way."
Everyone was silent again, and didn't force him for a moment, Hong Jun could only nod and said: "Okay, let's talk about it later."
Lu Xu seemed to have something to say, but was stopped by Mo Zhigen's eyes. The carp monster put away the bowls and plates, and there was still tea to drink. The cold wind was howling, and everyone sat by the long table, holding hot tea in their hands. The despair and worry about the future of time have been reduced a lot.
Lu Xu stared at the green tea soup in the tea bowl, and remembered what Mo Zhigen said, the story of warming up by the fire in that winter night.