Li Jinglong poured wine for everyone with his own hands, and said: "This year's crowd is so neat, it is God's will in the dark. Two new partners have also come..."
Hong Jun leaned back and asked Li Jinglong to pour the wine, while Lu Xu watched the wine pour into the bowl expressionlessly, with an expression that was clearly "Who is your partner".
"Eat the tail teeth." Li Jinglong poured the wine, raised the wine bowl and said, "Everyone, you have worked hard for a year, done it!"
Immediately, the carp monster stood up straight from a carp, shook off all the onions, ginger and garlic, held a small bowl, and said, "It's done!"
Li Jinglong waited, and the carp demon did it first, and then everyone raised their wine bowls and drank the wine in one gulp.
"Your rule is to drink the carp first?" Ashinaqiong asked.
"It's the boss of everyone." Artest explained.
The carp demon said: "Everyone, let's eat."
Li Jinglong: "..."
So everyone held up their chopsticks, Hong Jun was already so hungry that he didn't care about you, and the chopsticks only pulled on the chestnut stewed chicken. Li Jinglong didn't wait for him to make a move, and first clamped a chicken leg to Hong Jun.
"I didn't expect so many things to happen this year." Qiu Yongsi smiled, "When Lishan left, I thought I would never see you again."
Artest smiled and said, "Your boy is the last one, how dare you say so?"
Mo Zhigen joked: "When will I go to Liuying Chunxiao again?"
Everyone laughed, Ashina Qiong asked Artai Liuying Chunxiao what it was, and Lu Xu asked Hong Jun, Hong Jun was full of food, and motioned to explain to you later.
Li Jinglong sighed after eating a little, and said, "After eating wine this time, everyone has to break up again, right?"
Qiu Yongsi hurriedly said: "Never leave or leave! Go back together!"
Li Jinglong: "..."
Qiu Yongsi said: "We all know the prison, I will act together with everyone."
Artest replied: "Bring Joan here this time, and I'm planning to go back to the Exorcist Division."
After eating something, Hong Jun finally came back to life, and asked, "Why?"
Ashinaqiong said: "I have no money, and it was all spent by this prodigal son, Artai. Go to your Chang'an to earn some money, otherwise you won't be able to restore the country, and this prodigal son will spend all of it."
Everyone: "..."
Li Jinglong couldn't laugh or cry: "Our Exorcism Department can't make a lot of money all year round, just a few thousand taels of silver."
Ashinaqiong said: "Don't worry about that, we have our own business."
Artai said with a bitter face: "They asked me to go back to the Exorcist Division, so that I can do some small business with Chang Shi."
Everyone laughed again.
"What about you?" Li Jinglong asked Lu Xu.
Lu Xu glanced at Hongjun, and Hongjun looked at Mo Rigen again, knowing that for Mo Rigen, the most important thing in his life was to find Lu Xu.
"You go back to the Exorcist Department with everyone." Hong Jun replied.
Lu Xu nodded, Mo Zhigen heaved a sigh of relief, and smiled gratefully at Hongjun.
The carp demon said: "It's done, it's done!"
"Boss, you don't drink well." Li Jinglong hurriedly said, "I'll do it for you."
The carp demon insisted, Li Jinglong had to have another bowl with everyone. After drinking, everyone except Lu Xu started talking and laughing. All the conversations during the dinner were about the past six months when everyone fought side by side. Breaking into Pingkangli in the middle of the night, fighting against the Daming Palace, designing an imperial examination room, and being trapped in a cave by a nine-tailed celestial fox. In the end, Li Jinglong's heart light exploded, and everyone was able to escape...
Hong Jun listened to their past, and remembered that day in the pool of blood, when Li Jinglong saw his ears being restrained and cut off, he couldn't help but look up at him. It happened that Li Jinglong's handsome face was also looking at him with a hint of alcohol. A pair, Li Jinglong smiled.
Li Jinglong put his left hand on his right shoulder, stretched his arms, and said, "Go as soon as you say, I will take Hongjun all the way to the northwest, and I almost gave Ge Shuhan the head of the item."
When Hong Jun thought of the two coming, he couldn't help laughing, and Mo Zhigen said: "You guys only traveled around the mountains and rivers along the way!"
"Traveling in the mountains and rivers?" Li Jinglong said, "Young master is not used to riding a horse, but it made me hard enough."
Hong Jun couldn't help but think of the time when Li Jinglong gave him medicine, his face was flushed, but he didn't answer his words.
Li Jinglong asked everyone if they would go back to the Exorcist, but he didn't ask him alone. Maybe in his eyes, he must be the one who won't leave.
The carp demon drank too much and staggered down on the table. After drinking for three rounds, Li Jinglong said: "After drinking this bowl, I won't drink again."
Everyone raised their bowls again. Seeing that Lu Xu didn't want to drink much, Hong Jun said, "I'll replace you."
Mo Zhigen took the wine bowl and said, "I drank it."
Lu Xu glanced at Mo Zhigen, and the audience talked about the many friendships they had had, more or less, and yearned for it, and asked Hongjun, "Is it true?"
Hong Jun was startled, thought for a while, and said "um".
"How is Chang'an?" Lu Xu asked again.
"It only snows in winter." Hong Jun explained, "It's a good place."
Mo Zhigen said: "Chang'an is beautiful, you will like it when I bring you back to the Exorcist Division."
Mo Zhigen replied to Lu Xu without saying a word, and Lu Xu was no longer so cold, so he nodded when he heard the words.
"Come to Hexi this time." Li Jinglong put down the wine bowl, thought for a while, and suddenly said, "The thing that worries me the most is the demon seed on Hongjun."
As soon as he said this, the full table fell silent, and Hong Jun put down his chopsticks when he was almost done eating, and looked at Li Jinglong in a daze.
"Hong Jun." Li Jinglong said again, "Everyone has never disliked you, we have all lived and died together."
Hong Jun looked at everyone, Qiu Yongsi smiled and said: "In the pool of blood, it was you and Chang Shi who saved me."
Mo Zhigen replied: "If it weren't for you two, everyone would have confessed."
Artest said: "Remember that time, shall we still look for these idiots together?"
Hong Jun smiled and said, "I remember."
Li Jinglong said: "You gave me the heart lamp. If it weren't for you, I would be just a mortal today."
When Hong Jun heard this, he avoided Li Jinglong's gaze.
Lu Xu suddenly said: "Many things, in the dark, have God's will."
"God's will." Li Jinglong said, "That's right. Hongjun, maybe the lamp of the heart fell on me, that's what he said."
Hong Jun still didn't answer.
Li Jinglong said: "In short, you have to know that no one here dislikes you, and no one is worried about the demon seed on your body. What will happen in the future, and what will happen, everyone will slowly find a way with you to get rid of this demon seed. take out."
Qiu Yongsi said: "I think, this is really God's will, Hong Jun. Because of this, we have the hope of defeating the demon."
Hong Jun nodded, and Li Jinglong smiled again: "Hong Jun, just say what you have to say, don't hold back."
"Okay." Hong Jun smiled, "I see."
"The last bowl!" Li Jinglong raised the bowl again.
Lu Xu followed suit, and Artest said, "This is really the last bowl. Let me play the piano!"
Qiu Yongsi said: "My cousin has composed a new song. It's very good. Come on, I'll sing it for you."
Everyone listened attentively, Artest plucked the Barbat a few times, and Qiu Yongsi sang: "Zhao Ke—Man Hu Ying, Wu Hook—Shuang Xueming."
"The silver saddle shines on the white horse, rustling like shooting stars!"
When Hong Jun heard this poem, he forgot everything again, thinking that this poem can be written by humans
"To kill a person in ten steps, you will not stay behind for a thousand miles. When the matter is over, brush off your clothes and hide your body and name."
Everyone cheered at the same time: "Good!"
"This is Li Bai's poem!" Hong Jun said.
Everyone shouted angrily, telling Hong Jun not to interrupt, Qiu Yongsi just continued to sing with a smile. The First Taixuan Sutra." At that time, the sound of the zither stopped, and the drop of a needle could be heard.
"It's Li Bai." Qiu Yongsi said.
"Is Li Bai your cousin?" Li Jinglong asked in surprise.
Hong Jun was shocked when he heard this.
Qiu Yongsi replied: "Yes."
Everyone was shocked, but what shocked Hong Jun even more was Li Jinglong's next sentence.
"Why didn't I hear him say that?" Li Jinglong said to himself, "Next time we meet, ask, don't carelessly date your relatives."
"Just ask." Qiu Yongsi smiled.
"You know him?" Hong Jun asked Li Jinglong in surprise.
This is the first time in so many days that Hong Jun took the initiative to speak to Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong looked at Hong Jun with drunkenness and a smile, and nodded thoughtfully.
"Next time he comes to Chang'an, make an appointment for him to chat with you?" Li Jinglong said.
Hongjun: "..."
Li Jinglong actually knew Li Bai? ! And never said it
"Brother Taibai loves to drink. We used to know each other while drinking, so we started a family." Li Jinglong replied with a smile, "I'm ashamed that I didn't learn a few poems. The money was spent on painting, wine, tea, and food."
Li Jinglong is indeed known to know how to eat, play, and enjoy. Qiu Yongsi was born in a famous Han family, but after all, he was a step behind. He took the chopsticks, ordered some teacups, and said: "My cousin pays attention to congeniality, but Hongjun, I think I can do it." On a date."
Hong Jun said: "There is a chance for me to meet him!"
"Okay." Li Jinglong replied, "I promise you now. I beg him to go. If he doesn't see you, I will kowtow and kneel. If it doesn't work, I will ask His Majesty. If it doesn't work, I will tie him up and let you see him." On the one hand, never break your word!"
Everyone laughed, and Hong Jun was very embarrassed when he was said. Thinking of how well Li Jinglong treated him, he seemed to always agree to him regardless of conditions. As long as he could do it, he never refused himself.
"I still have a cousin." Qiu Yongsi said again, "Come and listen to him?"
Hong Jun said: "Another?"
"The young and the old leave home, the local accent remains the same, and the temple hair fades... The children meet and don't know each other, and they laugh and ask the guests where they come from..."
"Isn't this He Zhizhang?"
"Don't put gold on your face!"
"You just blow it!"
Everyone ridiculed Qiu Yongsi one after another, Qiu Yongsi said: "It's really a cousin!" Hong Jun was almost laughed to death, while Qiu Yongsi looked innocent and said: "What's wrong with my cousin being a poet!"
After Artest played for a while, Li Jinglong said: "Let's play "Chunjiang Flower and Moonlight Night". After a few days, I will return to Chang'an. I am tired of staying here."
Artest said okay, Li Jinglong poured the remaining wine on his own, moved over, sat next to Hongjun, leaned against him, stretched out his arm, and put it on Hongjun's shoulder.
Everyone sang "Moon Night on the Spring River" to the sound of the piano. Hong Jun couldn't help but think of the first time Li Jinglong took them to Liuying Chunxiao, they also sat side by side by the screen that day, cuddling together quietly, singing this song.
"Where do you want to go back?" Li Jinglong leaned closer to Hongjun, and whispered in his ear, with a hint of alcohol in his words.
Hong Jun said: "I haven't thought about it yet."
Hong Jun was a little drunk, and said to Li Jinglong: "You are... a jerk."
Li Jinglong smiled and said: "Why are you a jerk? Let's hear it?"
Hong Jun didn't say a word, he burrowed into Li Jinglong's arms, as if the fiery light in his chest made him a moth to the flame. He leaned against Li Jinglong's shoulder, his chest was filled with sadness for a moment, but his consciousness gradually blurred and he slid down.
The sound of the piano gradually stopped, Artest put away the piano, and Li Jinglong nodded to them, signaling for you to continue, then picked up Hong Jun, went upstairs to put him to sleep.
Lu Xu stared at Li Jinglong's back, sitting quietly and lost in thought, while Mo Zhigen leaned half-body on the desk, looking sideways at Lu Xu.
"Tell you something." Mo Zhigen whispered.
Lu Xu glanced at Mo Zhigen, except for Hong Jun, he hardly spoke.
"Chang Shi likes him." Mo Zhigen was also a little drunk, moved his eyebrows towards Lu Xu, and said, "But Chang Shi doesn't admit it, everyone can see it."
Lu Xu looked at Mo Zhigen, and whispered: "What does this have to do with you?"
Mo Zhigen moved his arm on the case, spread his palms slightly, and replied: "It has nothing to do with me. Sometimes I look at them, I feel happy; sometimes I look at them, I feel sad." Said As his voice became smaller and smaller, he asked again: "Do you understand that feeling? There is a person, like Hongjun, who follows him every day, and when he looks at him, he always looks at him with a smile, just look at it like this... Look..."
Mo Zhigen laughed, with affection in his eyes, and said: "Looking at it this way, I know that you have me in your heart, and I also have you in my heart. How wonderful it is to live."
The carp demon suddenly jumped up, startled Lu Xu, and almost knocked over the bowl, Mo Zhigen couldn't laugh or cry, touched the carp demon, and said: "Forget it, I will sleep with the boss, happy new year, Lu Xu .”
"Brothers!" Mo Zhigen said, "Happy Chinese New Year!"
As Mo Zhigen said, he bowed to Artai with the carp demon in his mouth, and bowed to Qiu Yongsi. The others also stood up and bowed to each other. Tai, ran all over the hall and kicked him, Lu Xu went to sleep with a numb face.
In the room, Li Jinglong asked Hong Jun to sleep well, covered him with a quilt, and whispered, "I won't sleep with you tonight, I have to write a letter to the prince first." After finishing speaking, he put a red seal on Hong Jun's pillow Underneath, go out and close the door.
Hong Jun opened his eyes, his head hurt a little, and he heard Ashina Qiong and Artai singing "hey yo" to each other outside. He reached under the pillow and took out the red envelope. He opened it and looked at it. Inside was a silver note of one hundred taels.
Hong Jun got up in silence, put the red seal in his arms, put on the fur jacket, and walked out the door lightly.
The snow fell heavily, and snowflakes covered the ground. Every cave in Mogao Grottoes was lit with ever-burning lamps. The lights shone brightly, and the light shone through the snowy night, like a fairyland.
"Happy Chinese New Year, brothers." Hong Jun led the horse, wrapped in a knee-length fur coat, and said in a low voice, then got on the horse, walked around the nine-story building, and left Mogao Grottoes along the Southeast Road.
"It's snowing!" Mo Zhigen pressed the railing and shouted upstairs and downstairs, "The monster is coming!"
Ashinaqiong went out to urinate drunk, standing in the snow, suddenly saw a line of horseshoe prints leading to the distance.
"Who's here?" Ashinaqiong shouted while urinating.
Everyone went back to their room to sleep, but Li Jinglong and Qiu Yongsi were used to watching the year, so they came out to take a look when they heard the shout. Li Jinglong suddenly remembered what Hongjun said during the day, and ran to Hongjun's room quickly, and opened the door, it was empty!
On the snowy ground, Hong Jun galloped his horse, and just galloped five miles along the Great Wall when he heard a shout in the wind.
"Hongjun!" Li Jinglong shouted.
Hong Jun glanced back and saw Li Jinglong chasing him, so he hurriedly whipped his horse and speeded up.
"Hongjun!" Li Jinglong roared.
Li Jinglong was wearing unlined clothing, a fur robe was randomly wrapped outside, and he wore a sword of wisdom, and he chased out on horseback with his boots on. Hong Jun hid in the woods, led the horse, and looked out from the gap between the trees.
"Hong Jun! Where are you?!" Li Jinglong rushed back again, got off his horse, and identified the marks on the ground.
Hong Jun's body was covered with snow, and he was one with the trees. In the middle of the night, Li Jinglong could only see him, and the rustling of the heavy snow covered his breathing. After searching for a long time, Li Jinglong got on his horse and chased him all the way.
Hong Jun got on his horse in the woods, changed direction, and headed due east first.
The heavy snow gradually stopped, and the sun also came out. Hong Jun was sobered up by the wind, and he drove unhurriedly, with a blank mind. , All are pale.
He passed through a valley, remembering what his companions said last night, feeling lonely and hopeless in his heart, and another thought: turn around and go back with them
He slowed down, but he didn't expect a person to turn out of the valley suddenly.
"Hong Jun! Where are you going?!" Li Jinglong actually stayed here in advance.
He was the last thing Hong Jun wanted to face, and immediately rushed out with a "drive!"
"Don't go!" Li Jinglong shouted.
"Go back!" Hong Jun shouted back.
Li Jinglong rode his horse and chased Hong Jun through the valley. Hong Jun ran faster and faster. Li Jinglong shouted from behind: "Slow down! I won't force you to go back! You talk to me!"
Hong Jun didn't slow down. The sun rose, and Li Jinglong chased him until it was three poles above the sun. Both sides of the official road were covered with snow-covered snow.
"I won't chase you anymore!" Li Jinglong shouted from behind, "Don't rush! Slow down! If you run like this, horses can carry it, but people can't stand it!"
Hong Jun couldn't bear the bumps and was very tired. From last night to now, he ran for nearly six hours, and his physical strength was a little too much.
The horse's speed gradually slowed down, and it opened a distance from Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong didn't speak, but followed Hong Jun from a distance. When Hongjun is fast, he is also fast, when Hongjun is slow, he is also slow, and when Hongjun stops, he stops, but he does not move forward.
As the sun went down, Hong Jun turned his head and shouted, "Go back!"
Li Jinglong just didn't answer, and continued to follow like this. Hong Jun remembered that he had phoenix feathers, and he was not afraid of the freezing cold, but Li Jinglong didn't. If he ran like this until dusk, he might get sick again.
If there is any confusion in Hong Jun's mind, he wants to go back to Taihang Mountain and get the answer from Chongming and Qingxiong. Qingxiong took him away that day, and he will definitely tell Chongming what happened. However, he was afraid, afraid that things would be as the ghost king said—all of this was ordered by Chongming, and he was just a sacrifice for his father.
He was also full of fear. On the day Qingxiong took him away, Li Jinglong was also present...
How should he deal with this
All his reliance will be shattered when the truth is ruthlessly revealed.
Hong Jun slowed down, the sun set, the sky was full of stars, and the night fell.
He has been running for a day and a night, and Li Jinglong also followed him for a day and a night.
Hong Jun looked back and found that Li Jinglong was gone behind him.
gone back? He thought to himself, but he vaguely felt that something was wrong, so he quickly turned his horse's head and galloped towards the way he came.
In the middle of the official road, the horse ran aside and shivered, and Li Jinglong fell to the ground like a dead body.
"Chang Shi!" Hong Jun shouted in a panic, got off his horse ten steps away, and ran quickly.
Li Jinglong's body was covered in snow, his palms were cold, and he curled up into a ball. Hong Jun immediately turned him over and said, "Chang Shi!"
Unexpectedly, Li Jinglong stretched out his hand suddenly and hooked Hong Jun's shoulders. When Hong Jun was about to break free, Li Jinglong pulled him to stand up!
"stop!"
"Stop it!"
"You stop!"
Hong Jun kept struggling, and wrestled with Li Jinglong in the snow. Li Jinglong used all his strength to knock Hong Jun to the ground, and then he pressed up with his whole body, locked his wrist, twisted it to his back forcibly, and rode on his ribs. Before, hold him firmly.
"Why didn't you wait for me?!" Li Jinglong was angry, and yelled at Hongjun, "What did I do wrong again!"
That was the first time that Li Jinglong was really angry with him. Hong Jun subconsciously pulled out his hand and shook out the throwing knife, but Li Jinglong's wrist was firmly grasped again.
"You hate me, don't you?" Li Jinglong said with trembling voice, "I treat you like this, I have a clear conscience! You hate me so much, why?!"
Li Jinglong couldn't help shaking the hand that grabbed Hongjun's wrist, then let go, and said, "You want to take my life? Because you are a demon and I am a human? Did I kill your fellow man?"
"No... no..." Hong Jun gasped.
"Come on!" Li Jinglong yelled at Hongjun as if he lost his mind, "Do it! Let me stab you here! Return the heart lamp to you! Take it away!"
Hong Jun stared at Li Jinglong in a daze. Li Jinglong's eyes were red and tears were rolling. His left hand involuntarily tore off the outer robe and the single clothes inside, revealing his bare chest. He grabbed his wrist, brought his throwing knife, and pressed it against his chest. .
The world, the wilderness, the snowfield, and the galaxy are all silent, except for the sound of the breathing of the two intertwined, like an ancient gentle tide.
Hong Jun saw a graceful peacock stabbing Li Jinglong's left chest.
Li Jinglong couldn't help choking, tears fell on Hong Jun's face.
At that moment, the sadness in Hong Jun's heart could no longer be restrained, he let go of the flying knife, and the flying knife made a soft sound and fell into the snow.
Li Jinglong let go of Hong Jun, and Hong Jun hugged Li Jinglong, buried his head in front of his shoulder, and burst into tears.