Soul bound

Once the beginning of spring is over, it is the Lantern Festival.

Lu Jiuyuan left the fort a few days earlier, perhaps to deal with something.Lu Chilin didn't ask, nor should he ask in his current capacity.

They hired a carriage and went all the way down to Wucheng. After staying for a few days, they turned to Hangzhou.

People say that there is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below.The city of Hangzhou can really afford the word "paradise".

When they arrived, it happened to be the evening of the fifteenth day.

Shuying horizontally and shallow water, subtle fragrance floating moon dusk.

The fire trees and silver flowers all over the city became one piece, spreading from the street to the end of the street.A few small lanterns were hung from the eaves, and the candles in the lanterns were flickering.Pedestrians in colorful clothes come and go on the street, and children in Zongjiao carry paper lanterns made in the shape of carps, shuttling through the streets and alleys.The vendors opened their doors, and there was an endless stream of yelling.

There was a wind from the south, and a handkerchief floated down from the pavilion, and it fell into the hands of some elegant young man.The girl upstairs showed a pair of picturesque eyebrows and eyes, and her face was shyly blush illuminated by the lantern.

"My lord...that's my handkerchief..."

The soft voice broke into the ears of the young man, and it might become another good story about marriage.

The long embankment was crowded with people. From a distance, it was densely packed, like a pot of porridge that was about to be boiled.The painted boats in the lake are brightly lit, and the sound of the pipa can be heard far away.The lotus lantern floats on the water, and the shadow on the lake is swaying.

A circle of young gentlemen surrounded the broken bridge, directing the old man who was punting below to hook the lotus lantern on the water.

Lu Jiuyuan turned sideways to avoid passers-by, with a paper fan spread out on his chest, looking leisurely.

Lu Chilin had never seen such a bustling scene, and he couldn't help turning his head to look at the surrounding clothes and long lights.

A thin man carrying candied haws passed by them, and his shrill cries were particularly abrupt amidst the crowd of people.

"Want to eat?" Lu Jiuyuan stopped and turned to look at Lu Chilin's gaze.

Lu Chilin asked him, "What is that?"

"Sugar and hawthorn." Lu Jiuyuan replied, "Sweet."

"Oh."

Lv Jiuyuan twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled, clasped Lu Chilin's wrist and chased after the peddler who hadn't gone far.

"Brother, please bring me a bunch."

"Okay, a bunch of two words." The peddler put down the stick of candied haws, picked a bunch of red and big ones from the top, and handed them to Lu Jiuyuan.

After paying the money, Lu Jiuyuan led Lu Chilin back and walked away.Lu Chilin looked at the candied haws in his hand, and hesitantly took a bite.

The sweet and crunchy sugar melts in the mouth, but the hawthorn has a sour taste.

He frowned, cursed "liar" silently, and forced to bite the seeds in the hawthorn.

"Haven't you eaten it before?" Lu Jiuyuan moved the candied haws away from his mouth, clasping his chin with two fingers, "I want to spit out the seeds."

"No." Lu Chilin swallowed the broken seeds and said lightly.

"Sometimes I think you are very interesting, not like a person. Rather, you are like a ghost who lives in the deep mountains and does not eat human fireworks, but only knows how to eat wind and drink dew." Lu Jiuyuan smiled, and his peach blossom eyes were full of the warmth of lights The light makes people drunk, and they don't know day and night.

But he is not human.

Thinking of this, Lu Chilin turned his eyes around and bit off another hawthorn.

Lv Jiuyuan moved his finger upwards, wiping away the sprinkles of sugar from Lu Chilin's mouth.The touch on the fingers was warm and soft, not half the same as his master.

Lu Chilin was taken aback for a moment, not understanding the meaning of this move, so he raised his eyelids and looked at Lu Jiuyuan blankly.

The latter turned his head sideways, and pulled people around the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd to the river.

Lu Chilin followed staggeringly, and a bunch of candied haws fell into his stomach.

Wanjia lights cast a layer of sparkling light on the lake.The light of the stars floats slowly along the water, shining like a river of stars in the sky.

The old man who sold the lantern came forward and spoke with a soft accent: "My lord, let's buy a lantern."

Lu Jiuyuan didn't say much, he took out an ingot of broken silver from his waist and exchanged it for the lotus lantern.

He turned his head and swept Lu Chilin's face: "What do you want to write?"

"The title of the gold list, the health and well-being...you can write anything." The old man who sold the lantern interrupted, and another lantern in that room was sold.

Lu Chilin lowered his eyes, stared fixedly at the lifelike petals of the lotus lantern, and shook his head.

Naturally, Lu Jiuyuan didn't expect him to say anything, so he borrowed the old man's pen and wrote three words on it like a flying bird——

Lu Chilin.

Lianxin's candle lit a fire, and the warm light shone on Lu Jiuyuan's face, it was really like lanterns and flowers shining red on the face of a human being.

The lantern touches the water and goes away.There was a breeze on the lake, and the ripples slowly opened up, and the lanterns also floated towards the center of the lake, turning into small dots.

"Why did you write my name?" Lu Chilin asked him.

"You don't like it? The same goes for me."

But the lantern has drifted away, so there is no question of whether to write or not to write.

Lu Jiuyuan got up, but his eyes drifted to the west.

The spring is cold, and there is an inexplicable chill in the wind.

He was stunned, and his peach blossom eyes were stained with a bit of sharpness.

"Wait for me here for a while." He said to Lu Chilin.

After the words fell, he pushed aside the crowd and quickly disappeared into the vast crowd.

Seeing him go away, Lu Chilin turned his head and stared blankly at the little lanterns on the lake.

Those lamps are almost all in the shape of lotus flowers, with more or less ink stains on the innermost petals.

The twenty-eight girl on the opposite bank had bright eyes, and squatted halfway, revealing a pair of jade hands, and sent down a lantern.With her eyes closed, she murmured a few words silently, her face full of shy joy.

When he raised his eyes, those almond eyes met a young man from a family beside the Broken Bridge, but his daughter's family's thoughts could no longer be hidden.

Listening to the uproar over there, Lu Chilin silently turned his head to look for the lantern that Qilu Jiuyuan had put down.

For some reason, he didn't want to watch it disappear at the end of his sight. He wanted to hide it so that no one else could see it.

No one noticed Lu Chilin who suddenly disappeared on the long embankment.He concealed his figure, his toes lightly passed over the water, his clothes fluttered, and he stepped on the snow without a trace.

He landed in front of a row of lanterns, his eyes quickly scanned the writing on it.Suddenly, he leaned over and raised his hand with a hook, and brought the lotus flower with his name written on it into his arms.

There was wax on the petals and a small tear, but he didn't care.

He carefully put the lantern into the storage bag, and with a flick of his body, he fell back to the shore again.

The former son of the aristocratic family had already walked to the girl's side, and the eyes of both of them were averted.The young man opened his mouth, as if he had stuttered, uttering unsound words.The girl twisted her handkerchief, her ears were dyed a faint red.

This is considered love.

Lu Chilin withdrew his gaze, rubbed his fingers subconsciously on the storage bag, and then withdrew his hand as if it had been scalded.

Lu Jiuyuan hadn't come back yet, he just stood by the river like this.

Pedestrians came and went, and came again, one face changed to another before they could be seen clearly.There are already vacancies at the old man's booth, and the lights on the lake are no longer the same as before.

Lu Jiuyuan still didn't come back.

"Sir?"

Lu Chilin turned around and saw the old man's kind face.

"The lantern market is coming to an end, if you have nothing to do, go back earlier. It's cold at night."

Lu Chilin nodded in bewilderment, and replied, "Okay."

He walked a few steps along the long embankment, not knowing where he was going to find Lu Jiuyuan.

Maybe he should go back first, but he didn't know where they were going to settle.

There are fewer and fewer people on the street, and the hawkers have closed their stalls. The previously bustling market has become deserted.

Fang Fang released a little spiritual consciousness, and he felt a huge spiritual power rushing towards him.Opening his eyes, he saw Lu Jiuyuan approaching with his sword. He didn't stand very steadily, and when he landed, he staggered and almost sprained his foot.Shen Bi plunged straight into the ground, and a spider web-like crack opened on the masonry.

Lu Jiuyuan's breath was short, his eyes were bloodshot, and his sleeves still smelled of rust.

Lu Chilin stretched out his hand to drag him, and he used his arm to stand up straight.

"What's wrong?" Lu Chilin didn't know why he became like this after leaving for a while.

Lv Jiuyuan's voice was low: "It's okay, I just accidentally fell into the trap of the Charming Demon."

The scorching temperature spread from Lu Chilin's arm to his whole body, causing him to shudder.Rao is ignorant of personnel and affairs here, and he also understands what is going on with Lu Jiuyuan.

Charming demon, good at illusion, and obscenity.A few days ago, the corpses of men who died of being sucked out of essence appeared repeatedly around Wucheng, and there were many monks among them.When Lv Jiuyuan got the news, he took the opportunity to come down to investigate.Earlier by the lake, he just felt the smell of the Charming Monster, and then set out to capture it.

But who knows, he was careless, even though he seriously injured the Charming Monster, he was also hit by the trick.

He rested his chin on Lu Chilin's shoulder, panting heavily.Clasping Lu Chilin's wrist was getting stronger and stronger, Lu Jiuyuan suppressed the restlessness in his lower abdomen, pulled up Shen Bi, and dragged him into a narrow alley beside him.

The alley was dark, and if someone stopped carefully, they could still see overlapping figures inside.

Lu Chilin was pressed against the stone wall beside the alley, and the rough gravel laid him in pain.Lu Jiuyuan lowered his head and buried himself in his neck, his canine teeth rubbed against the sensitive skin, leaving ambiguous marks.

There was a whistling wind in the alley, and occasionally there could be a few groans mixed with panting.