flagship summer song

"Is there anyone?" Chen Yao walked across a small bridge and stood in front of the thatched hut. He just opened his mouth and realized that there are no "people" here.

The thatched cottage was on a small island, and the island was surrounded by red flowers of the other shore. The will-o'-the-wisp led Chen Yao to the island, and then quietly extinguished it.

A young woman came out of the house, holding a basket of yarn balls in her hand, and she seemed to be about to knit a sweater. When she saw someone from the island, she couldn't help being stunned. She stepped forward and saw that Chen Yao was still holding one in her arms. Ask: "Where did you come from? What's wrong with him? Is he sick?"

"We..." Chen Yao didn't know whether he wanted to tell the truth. Seeing that the woman had a kind face, not like those ghosts but like ordinary people on the ground, he said, "When we first came here, my friend was injured. May I borrow a place for him to rest?"

Hearing what he said, the woman frowned, looked down at Xu Xiaoxian, raised her hand, paused for a moment, and asked, "Does he have a fever? Can I feel his pulse?"

"Madam can take pulse?" Chen Yao was a little surprised and nodded repeatedly.

"My husband also practiced medicine when he was alive. I also know a little bit about everything. It's just superficial, not worth mentioning." The woman gently pinched Xu Xiaoxian's wrist, concentrating for a while, Chen Yao guessed from her face that Xu Xiaoxian's pulse condition might not be very good.

"You little friend...his pulse condition is very rare, but it is safe for his life, and he is considered a great fortune," the woman exhaled, let go of her hand, turned around to get out of the way, and said, " Come with me, my husband and I have lived on this island for 20 years, and we haven't seen anyone coming to the island, so please stay in my son's room first."

The woman pushed open the door of a room. The furnishings in the room were very simple, but there were some children's toys, and a large paper kite was placed on the window.

Chen Yao carefully put Xu Xiaoxian on the bed, and gently untied the blood-stained coat. Chen Yao saw a fist-sized wound on Xu Xiaoxian's chest, suddenly felt dizzy, and lost his mind.

Most people who suffer from this kind of injury are basically hopeless.

"It's not ordinary people who can come down here in the flesh." The woman brought a medicine box and put it on the table, lit a candle, took out a bamboo tube from the medicine box, opened the lid, and took out three medicines from inside. He burned a silver needle on the fire, walked to the bedside, and inserted needles on Xu Xiaoxian's three acupuncture points. He turned to look at Chen Yao, and said with a smile, "I think you look like a ghost here."

Chen Yao smiled helplessly. Seeing that the woman was performing acupuncture for Xu Xiaoxian, which was exactly the acupuncture point he had thought of, he was startled and suspicious, but he didn't dare to say more, he just wanted Xu Xiaoxian to wake up soon.

The woman probably saw his thoughts, and after taking the needle, she left some bandages for Chen Yao, and left the room quietly.

There are no herbs to treat wounds here, because no ghosts will be injured, Chen Yao can only hope that Xu Xiaoxian's body can recover faster on its own, he carefully cleaned those wounds and bandaged them again.

There is no sun in the underworld, so there is no day or night, and ghosts neither hunger nor sleep.

He was sitting by the bed, holding that hand, waiting for the sleeping person to wake up and see himself.The woman occasionally passed the room, stopped by the door to look at them, but did not go in.

He was grateful for the woman's kindness.

After an unknown amount of time, he heard a voice outside the room. It seemed that the woman's husband had come back. Footsteps came quietly to the door, followed by a light knock on the door. He walked to the door and invited them in.

The man who came into the house was unshaven, but he was about the same age as the woman. He was not old, but out of repair.

The man walked softly to the bed, glanced at the person on the bed, felt his pulse again, returned to the table, and asked Chen Yao what happened.

"He was scratched by a ghost." That was the only way he could explain it.

The man frowned, and wanted to ask, but was held back by his wife. The woman said, "You have to go to Lord Yan to ask if you can get some herbs, or he will have to sleep until he wakes up." .”

Chen Yao heard that they were going to find King Yama, and quickly asked, "Is there any medicinal herb in King Yama's palace?"

The man scratched his head and said, "Where is there any medicinal herb in the palace of the king of hell? You see, there is no sun here, and nothing can grow except manjusawa. When we first came here 20 years ago, the king of hell was afraid that we would not get used to it. From time to time, some things from the ground will be sent, and the things you see are all from the ground, and we can’t use that much here, so I told Hades not to send them.”

"Why did Hades send you things on the ground? You..."

The woman looked at her husband, covered her mouth and smiled, but her expression was a little sad, and she said, "According to the calculation, we may be in a similar situation to your friend, but we are indeed dead, and it is only thanks to the blessing of the king of Hades that we can preserve our bodies." It’s just not rotten, and there are no ghosts to intrude on this island, after 20 years, I’m used to it.”

The man probably didn't like such a sad atmosphere, he waved his hand and said, "Go, go, let's talk about business, don't talk about those useless things... Speaking of herbs, the Palace of the King of Hades is in chaos right now. The female ghost went to make trouble again and injured many servants, even the King of Hades."

The woman asked anxiously, "Is Hades alright?"

"It's okay, the half-immortal stabbed the female ghost, but the half-immortal was thrown into the lava behind the Palace of Hades by the female ghost, and I don't know what happened..."

Seeing the worried faces on both of their faces, Chen Yao thought to himself that they had never met Xu Xiaoxian, but he didn't dare to say so. He just looked back at the person on the bed, and suddenly thought of something, lowered his head and turned over on his body, and found the A small gardenia lamp was placed on the table, and he leaned over and carefully peeled off the butterfly talisman paper on the gardenia lamp.

The butterfly talisman returned to the size of a palm as soon as it left the Gardenia Lamp, and the Gardenia Lamp slowly returned to its original size on the table, which stunned the couple.

The man carefully approached the gardenia lamp in front of him, stretched out his fingers and touched it lightly, as if he was worried that the lamp would suddenly jump out and bite him.

"Don't be afraid, it's just a lamp," Chen Yao smiled and heaved a sigh of relief, rolled up his sleeves, reached into the gardenia lamp, took out a small paper bag, held it in his hand and unfolded it carefully. Inside were some A powder the color of blood.

The man dipped his finger in some and put it in front of his nose to smell it. He couldn't help being surprised, and looked at Chen Yao: "This is Qilin Dried? How do you have this kind of medicine?"

Chen Yao just smiled. In his mind, he was standing next to his mother when he was a child, watching his mother grind those black unicorns one after another. The powder produced was the same color as blood, but it was a good medicine to stop bleeding.

Chen Yao walked to the bedside and applied medicine to Xu Xiaoxian's wound. He applied it very carefully, but Xu Xiaoxian's wound was too big. A small packet of Qilin exhaust powder was applied in one go. He re-bandaged Xu Xiaoxian's wound and covered the quilt .

Turning around, he found that the couple had already left, probably because they didn't want to disturb him.

He let out a long breath, sat on the edge of the bed, gently held Xu Xiaoxian's wrist, feeling the beating with his fingertips.

He put that hand back under the quilt, walked out of the room, and closed the door. The couple were sitting in the yard chatting and talking, and when they saw him coming out, they beckoned him to come over.

There were some candied fruit and dried fruit on the table. The woman poured him a cup of tea. He didn't feel thirsty, but he took a sip from the teacup. It was jasmine, and the tea tasted as elegant as flowers.

"You don't have to worry, the water here is rootless water on the ground, and it was also sent by Lord Yan. It's just that we don't get thirsty when we go underground, so we keep it in the water tank all the time." The man pointed to a large water tank in the yard. water tank.

Woman: "Why did you come here? It seems that you were not arrested by Hades."

"The gate of hell can't be closed," Chen Yao felt that the couple in front of him were quite friendly, so he briefly explained the situation on the ground: "We thought that the people on the ground were captured by Hades, so we came down, only to find out that we misunderstood gone."

Man: "I think that kid is not the same as you. You should be an ordinary person, right? Use the soul to go out of the body and go through the gate of ghosts?"

Chen Yao nodded, but he couldn't explain clearly to Xu Xiaoxian.

The woman didn't care about that, and while pouring tea for Chen Yao, she asked curiously, "You seem to care about him?"

"Well," Chen Yao looked at his own reflection in the teacup, smiled, and said, "A very important person."

The woman looked at Chen Yao with gentle eyes, and suddenly sighed: "My child is now as old as you, I don't know how he is doing on the ground."

"Your child is on the ground?" Chen Yao opened his mouth and looked back at the room. He thought the woman's son also lived there.

"That's right, he was only that big at that time," the woman put her hands in her arms with a smile, and finally sighed: "When we were brought here, he still didn't know how to call his mother, he just kept screaming. cry……"

……

Xu Xiaoxian fell into a drowsy sleep, suddenly felt the wound on his body was hot, and opened his eyes at once. The surrounding environment was not familiar to him, but it was very comfortable. He turned his eyes to look at the huge paper kite on the window, and suddenly felt familiar.

He struggled to sit up, the wounds on his chest and back were hurt by him, he opened his clothes and looked at the tightly bandaged wounds, couldn't help but smiled wryly, raised his head, and looked around, but there were people in the strange room. With so many familiar objects, he lifted the quilt, went to the window barefoot, and took down the paper kite—it was given to him by his husband when he was a child. He told him that he likes the big free birds in the sky, My husband drew him an eagle, pasted it on bamboo strips, and hung it with a fishing line. When the spring east wind came, they would release paper kites.

Later, when he got tired of playing, he gave the paper kite to Hades.

He stood in front of the window, listening to the people chatting outside the window, tears suddenly dripped down on the wings of the kite.

Woman: "...the King of Hades will send the child's clothes every year. Every year he grows older, and I just imagine how tall he will grow, whether he has gained weight, and whether he will fight with other children... I really want to Watching him grow up..."

Xu Xiaoxian walked out of the room quietly with the paper kite, and when the people in the yard noticed him, he had already walked in front of them, startling everyone. Looking at the paper kite, I suddenly understood.

"Could it be that their child is..." Chen Yao looked back at the couple. They didn't seem to realize that the son they had missed for 20 years was the person in front of them.

Xu Xiaoxian gently pushed Chen Yao's hand away, and slowly knelt down in the direction of the couple.

"What are you doing, get up!" The couple hurriedly helped him up, but he refused, kowtowed his head and called "Dad" and "Mother" hoarsely.

"Are you, are you Ping'er?" The man froze for a moment, his eyes turned red.

"My child is not filial, I haven't seen you for so long..."

The woman's tears were uncontrollable, she sobbed for a long time before she regained her strength, quickly helped Xu Xiaoxian up, looked him up and down, and said: "Sure enough, I've grown up, and I'm much more handsome than your father, let mother look..."

Xu Xiaoxian wiped his eyes, he didn't expect to go home after waking up, if the wound on his body was not still painful, he really thought he was dead.

The Xu couple supported Xu Xiaoxian to sit down at the table, and asked him whether the wound hurt, whether he was hungry, and how his life was on the ground. He was so happy that he couldn't feel the pain of the wound. When he arrived, he ate and chatted with the candied fruit on the table, and almost told his parents everything from childhood to adulthood.

Mrs. Xu always felt a bit naughty when she heard what her son said, so she reached out and pinched Xu Xiaoxian's face, and asked, "You are 20 years old, do you have any girls you like?"

Xu Xiaoxian couldn't help being taken aback, he was happy for a while, he forgot that his marriage was also a big concern for his parents, and suddenly he didn't know how to deal with it.

He just remembered Chen Yao, turned his head and searched around the yard, only to find that Chen Yao was sitting alone among the flowers on the other bank looking at the distant Wangchuan River. Candied dried fruit, stood up, and said: "I am fine by myself, parents, don't patronize me, you have left my benefactor aside, I will give him something to eat."

Xu Xiaoxian hurriedly left the table while his parents were looking at Chen Yao. Xu and his wife looked at each other, shook their heads and smiled, thinking that these children's thoughts were really incomprehensible.

Xu Xiaoxian walked lightly behind Chen Yao, Chen Yao didn't hear the footsteps, but heard the sound of flowers swaying, turned around and almost bumped into a bright Bianhua flower, he was stunned for a moment, took the flower that Xu Xiaoxian handed over, and smiled wryly Said: "I don't want to see me so much, send me flowers from the other side."

"You're not a flower, and I'm not a leaf." Xu Xiaoxian sat down beside him while eating the plate of candied and dried fruit, and muttered, "It's hard to never see each other again."

"Is your wound okay? You jumped up and down just after waking up," Chen Yao frowned and looked at his back, always worried that the wound would burst open suddenly at some point.

"It's okay." Xu Xiaoxian handed a candied fruit to Chen Yao. Chen Yao in Yuanhun state didn't want to eat, but he still reached out to take it.

Xu Xiaoxian looked at the Wangchuan River in front of him, and said softly, "Thank you."

Chen Yao didn't reply, just put the candied fruit in his hand into his mouth, the sweet taste was much more delicious than the one on the ground.

"Cough cough..." Xu Xiaoxian suddenly covered his mouth and coughed lightly. Chen Yao quickly reached out to support his shoulder. He shook his head and coughed for a while before recovering. caught."

Chen Yao couldn't be as big-hearted as Xu Xiaoxian, he pulled Xu Xiaoxian's wrist to check his pulse, and then let go after confirming that nothing happened.

"Your mother is right, you are already in your twenties, and you still don't know how to take care of yourself."

Xu Xiaoxian curled her lips and said, "I'll just find someone who can take care of me in the future."

Chen Yao froze for a moment, but didn't speak.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Xu Xiaoxian felt bored, so he picked up the small clods around him and threw them at the little ghost floating in the river.

He turned his head and saw the busy figures of his parents, remembering that he saw his clothes from childhood to adulthood in the room just now, he felt a little unbearable, he suddenly tilted his head to look at Chen Yao, and quickly conceived an idea in his mind.

"What's the matter?" Chen Yao was uncomfortable being watched by him, and he always felt that he had some bad idea.

"Chen Yao, marry me."

"Cough, cough, cough..." The person who coughed this time was Chen Yao, who was really choked by Xu Xiaoxian, and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? Why should I marry you?"

"Don't do anything, it's not a real marriage anyway, just go through a ceremony and make my parents happy." Xu Xiaoxian stood up and looked at the backs of the couple in the yard, and murmured: "In this way, they will have no regrets." ..."

"You are crazy!"

"No!" Xu Xiaoxian said firmly, but there was unspeakable sadness in his eyes, and after a while, he asked slowly: "Aren't you willing?"

"I..." Looking at him, Chen Yao couldn't seriously think about whether he would like it or not. He took a deep breath and said, "Have you thought about it? What if your parents..."

"They like you, it's okay," Xu Xiaoxian smiled, suddenly felt a pain in his back, and didn't want Chen Yao to see it, so he just held back and clenched his fist tightly with one hand hidden in his sleeve.

Mrs. Xu was cooking in the kitchen. Xu Xiaoxian sneaked up behind her, startled her, raised her hand and knocked on Xu Xiaoxian's forehead, and asked, "Why are you always walking silently? You're just scaring people. What's the matter? hungry?"

"Mother, I want to marry Chen Yao," Xu Xiaoxian said calmly, and saw Mrs. Xu's pot and spoon fell from his hand. He quickly reached out to catch it, stuffed it into Mrs. Xu's hand, and said : "Mom, he is very good to me, please help us."

"He, he is very good...but, but he is also a boy!"

"Mother!" Xu Xiaoxian grabbed Mrs. Xu's arm and shook it, acting coquettishly like when she was a child.

Mrs. Xu was soft-hearted, bit her lip, and asked, "Do you like him?"

Xu Xiaoxian nodded without thinking, Mrs. Xu sighed and nodded, just about to speak, Xu Xiaoxian spoke first: "Mother, over there..."

"You don't want me to tell him, do you? Your father will kill you..." Madam Xu sighed again, touched Xu Xiaoxian's head, and said, "Okay, I'll tell your father, You, you have known since birth to cause trouble for me."

"Thank you mother!" Xu Xiaoxian happily kissed Mrs. Xu on the face.

Chen Yao didn't know how Xu Xiaoxian persuaded his parents to accept their marriage ceremony. When he was dragged and dragged by Xu Xiaoxian to change into a red dress, the two of them worshiped the heaven and earth in the small room and bowed to their parents. After drinking a cup of wine, it is considered a marriage contract.

"Do you two want a bridal chamber?" Mrs. Xu asked the two newcomers in a low voice.

Xu Xiaoxian was nibbling melon seeds, and was almost bitten by his mother's question. He seemed to always forget some important things, so he quietly raised his eyes to look at Chen Yao, and Chen Yao also looked at him, as if asking for his opinion , he had no choice but to bite the bullet and drag Chen Yao into the "marriage room" prepared by his parents for them, and close the door.

The room was still the one that belonged to him since he was a child, but it was replaced with red gauze curtains and mattresses, which looked very festive, and a pair of red candles were burning on the table.

Xu Xiaoxian was moved for a while, and when he took another look at Chen Yao, he suddenly felt his scalp tingling - this matter can be said to have endless troubles.

But it’s worth it for parents to have no regrets in this life, Xu Xiaoxian thought so, and hurriedly changed out of the red clothes, he is different from Chen Yao in Yuanhun state, he has a physical body, and the wound is not fully healed, After such a tossing day, he was so tired that he closed his eyes and prepared to sleep after climbing into bed.

Feeling in a daze that someone covered him with a quilt, he didn't care, turned around, wrapped the quilt tightly, and fell asleep peacefully.

However, Chen Yao couldn't sleep, sitting by the bed, looking at the eternal dusk outside the window, felt an indescribable feeling.