Wang Liulang

three

The next day, Xu Da slept until midnight before waking up from a heavy hangover.He was lying on his back in the cabin with his coat open, the sunlight leaked in through the gaps in the rattan, and the frames seemed to be still moving.For a while he didn't think about anything, and for a while all he thought about was Rokuro.

He thought of the touch between Liu Lang's lips and teeth.At that time, he was obviously terrified, struggling in terror, and shouting silently. The suffocating fear still remained in his mind, but his heart had already lost to desire.Those two lips, obviously the lips of a cold man, gave him a sweet taste, soft and greasy, like the seductive willow cotton in the spring breeze, when he wanted to grab it, it was blown by the wind again went.

Rokuro is not an ordinary person, he has been aware of it since a long time ago.But he only thought that the other party was an aristocratic son who hid his identity and left home to travel, or a little magician who traveled the world with extraordinary skills. He never thought of going to those frightening places.

He seemed to have finally gotten close to the real Rokuro until now.

He was in a daze for a while, then got up to tidy up.He went back home, took out all the remaining money, went to the shop in the west of the city to order a coffin and drink a jar of good wine.On the way, I met the matchmaker from the day before yesterday, and after some entanglement, I finally returned to my boat again.

He didn't even cast a fishing net today.So we ate on the boat, sat on the bow and waited for the red sun to sink.When the sun's light suddenly fell, the boy arrived as promised.

He turned his gaze to Liu Lang on the shore.

If it was normal, Liu Lang would have jumped on board without his invitation.But today, the other party just stood on the bank of the river and smiled modestly at him, "You were drunk last night."

Xu Da stared at him, his throat moved, "Yes."

Liu Lang smiled and said, "That's why I didn't tell you last night, lest you forget it when you wake up, and come and wait for me. You are an idiot."

"What do you mean?"

"I want to say goodbye to you." Liu Lang's tone seemed to fall into Xu Da's ears after jumping a few times on the river, so light that it was even a little cheerful, "From tomorrow night onwards, I won't be stuck here anymore. There are water ghosts in the Yi River."

Xu Da repeated mechanically: "Water ghost?"

Liu Lang said: "Don't you know? I used to be a water ghost. I got drunk by this river many years ago and drowned. Someone is coming for me."

In the dark night, the young man's white clothes were like snow, and he was full of smiles. The water shimmered on his clothes and reflected in his eyes.

Xu Da lowered his head, and saw the wine he carefully warmed, the clean wine glass, and the newly laid straw mat.

"That being the case, come on board and we'll talk about it in detail," he said.

Liu Lang was startled, "Aren't you afraid of me?"

Afraid, why not?He almost blurted out.

But even if I was afraid, I still left room for you.What about you?Have you ever given me a little leeway?

He didn't answer for a while, Liu Lang looked at him, his expression gradually changed, "You are not afraid of me." He murmured, "You...you..."

Xu Da said: "You don't want to come up because you are afraid of me."

Liu Lang paused, then smiled miserably, "That's right. I'm afraid of you."

Xu Da stared at him closely, but the night was too dark, and the pupils of the boy opposite him gradually became darker and unknowable.Xu Dao: "Come on board, let me ask you a word."

Liu Lang said: "What are you talking about?"

Xu Da turned his head and looked at the dark forest not far away. Because there was no moon, he couldn't even tell the distance.Maybe there are many ghosts around me.Maybe there are many ghosts in my heart.

He knew Rokuro would never get on his boat anyway. "Liulang," he said softly, "I always want to congratulate you, you will be freed from your karma, and you will be reborn as a human again."

"Yes, ghosts want to be humans; humans want to be ghosts."

Xu Da's heart skipped a beat, and he looked at Liu Lang, but Liu Lang smiled softly, "Yun Sheng, I got to know you for a while, and I am very happy to be gifted you with wine."

"After reincarnation, I can forget you. Yunsheng, why don't you forget me too."

"Yunsheng, what did you want to ask me just now?"

Rokuro blinked, looking at him innocently.Xu Da's mouth was so dry that he could barely speak, and finally asked with a trembling voice: "Why is it so coincidental that it happened to be last night... After last night, you are leaving?"

"Do you think it's a coincidence?" Liu Lang smiled and sighed lightly, "I think it's a coincidence, Yunsheng."

four

In the middle of the day, the Yishui River in summer pulses turbidly and powerfully. Early fishermen gather in twos and threes on the shore and on the water, casting nets, catching fish, chatting, and eating.

At this time, a woman holding a baby approached the river bank step by step.

A small boat on the shore moved, and Xu Da slowly sat up.

He hadn't slept for two nights, his face was unshaven, his eye sockets were sunken, but there was a colorless cold light in his eyes.He stared at the woman, while reaching out to touch the wine gourd on the boat, but the gourd was rolled further away by his touch.

The woman was thin and haggard, and her clothes were plain, but they were made of very delicate fabrics. When the wind blows, they look like wicker wicker.The baby in her arms was probably sound asleep, she hugged the swaddle tightly, her chin rested on the baby's forehead, she seemed to be muttering something, but she didn't look at the baby.

She just looked at the river.

Her steps were small, but she still walked into the river step by step.

When the river was submerged to the elbows and swaddled baby, the baby suddenly burst into tears, and the woman seemed startled, but she still didn't stop.

She just grew paler and paler until suddenly she threw the baby on the shore.

The crying of the baby who fell on the shore resounded loudly.

Fishermen came rowing one by one, a woman picked up the baby and coaxed it carefully, and a man jumped into the river to save them.However, the waves of Yishui River were extremely rough at this time, overflowing and coming ashore, the woman disappeared in the water all at once.

Xu Da stared at the surging river, wave after wave, and his heart seemed to have turned into a stone, unable to move, and unwilling to move.

Suddenly, another hand stretched out from the water.Beautiful, woman's hands with gold bracelets on their wrists.Then came a few men who went to rescue her, and led the woman to the shore with difficulty.

Xu Da stood up suddenly, staring at the river with wide eyes——

Although it was difficult, the woman was indeed rescued.

五

Xu Da finally disembarked and went home again.

This time, there are already people waiting at the door of the house, the matchmaker who talked about Xiang last time, and the old lady of that family.After all, it was a respectable family in the county, but it was strange that the mistress came to a poor fisherman's small firewood hut, and everyone passing by pointed at her.

For some reason, Xu Da doesn't really want to talk to people right now.He wanted to pretend he didn't see it, but he couldn't go around the other party and entered the house, so he heard the matchmaker yell, "Oh, Xu Yunsheng, a good thing is coming, our girl said that she likes you very much—"

Xu Da paused.There were many voices and pictures in his head that hadn't had a rest for two nights. He couldn't hear what the matchmaker was saying for a while, but he started thinking again: Like?Who likes me?Who wants to like me?

He took a step aside, and the matchmaker helped the old lady to walk in, talking nonstop while walking.Xu Da was very tired. He wanted to have a good sleep, but he couldn't sleep. He tried his best to listen to the matchmaker saying how nice the other girl was and how lucky he was to match him. He also talked about getting married. The sooner the day, the better. It is better to hit the sun than choose the day...

The old lady remained silent with a gloomy face.

Xu Da couldn't remember how he responded to the matchmaker in the end.Maybe he said yes.If there is always a need to get married in this world, then as long as the other party is a living person, who can't?

Yes - as long as it is a living person.

After finally sending the two women away, Xu Yunsheng stood at the door, staring blankly at his own shadow on the ground.

"...Xu Da?" Someone called back his soul.

He looked up, and there were some coffin workers, who smiled at him and said, "The coffin you ordered the day before yesterday, we finished it and brought it here."

六

Xu Da began to concentrate on getting married.He doesn't have a lot of property, but his strength lies in his dexterity. Every piece of furniture in the house has been changed and washed, and a warm smell gradually emerges.He hadn't experienced this warm smell for a long time, and he thought his home should be on that ship.

But he didn't go to the boat again.

He was busy every day and night, and he didn't have the leisure time to go to the boat, warm a pot of wine, spread a piece of bait, and wait for someone to come.

In the middle of the night, he seemed to see Liu Lang in a trance.

Still wearing the white robe, Liu Lang came from the other end of the road unsteadily and flutteringly, until he arrived at the gate of Xu Da's courtyard, and then looked into the courtyard with his head poking his head.Xu Dazheng was sitting at the door of the room weaving bamboo strips. He felt the moonlight slightly tilted by the wind. When he raised his head, he saw Wang Liulang who wanted to enter the door but dared not.

Like a child, like when they first met.

Xu Da didn't know what to say for a while, so he just stared blankly.But Liu Lang looked at the bamboo strip in his hand, lowered his head, and whispered: "You, do you want to go?"

Xu Da took a breath slowly, and then let it out slowly, "Don't go, I'm making a new fish basket for myself."

Liu Lang said: "Are you still fishing?"

"How can I eat without fishing?" Xu Da replied without thinking, and immediately fell silent again.

He suddenly understood the meaning of Liu Lang's words.He stood up grabbing the bamboo strips and wanted to go back to the house, but he heard Liulang still say: "I have been waiting for you on the river for the past few days, but I didn't wait to see you. I didn't leave, but you ignored me." me."

Xu Da stopped and turned around.A young man in white clothes stands neatly at the door, under the moonlight, he has no shadow, lonely and quiet, he is clearly a ghost, but his eyes dance with the light of hope that only living people have, a soft and careful light.

The bamboo strip fell to the ground, Xu Da took a step in the direction of Liu Lang, and then another step.

The light in Liu Lang's eyes suddenly lit up, he ran into the yard with a smile, and threw himself into Xu Da's arms, "You still care about me!"

Xu Da didn't speak, just held his face and kissed him without hesitation.

Liu Lang was taken aback and jumped up, but Xu Da clasped his hands and dragged him into the room while kissing him.He dragged him through the hall where the coffin was parked, and then into the bedroom where there were new cabinets covered with red cloth.

General Xu threw Liulang on his new bed.

Liu Lang quickly got up, "You, don't mess around! I'm a ghost, you're a human, we can't—"

Xu laughed.

His smile made Liu Lang stunned at a loss.

"At this time, you came to tell me that we can't do it?" Xu Da smiled coldly, "Why don't you just leave?"

"I... I saw that woman throwing herself into the river with her baby in her arms. If I let her take my place, it would be two lives... I couldn't bear it, so I rescued her." Liu Lang's voice became weaker and weaker.

"Just like that?" Xu Dao said.

Liu Lang glanced at him quickly, then lowered his eyes quickly, "No...I want to see you again."

"Just like that?" Xu Da was unmoved.

"That's all." Liu Lang nodded seriously.

"Then let me ask you." Xu Da stared into his eyes, and approached his face bit by bit, "Do you know that the person you rescued is the girl who wants to marry me?"

Liu Lang's face turned pale instantly, and even his lips trembled.

Xu Da didn't want to listen to him anymore, and he didn't want to see his expression anymore.He went directly to the bed, pulled off Liu Lang's white clothes without mercy, and bit his shoulder hard.

Liu Lang cried out in pain, tears rolled in his eyes, but he didn't reach out to push him away.

Xu Da bit down along his collar inch by inch, didn't speak, only let out a painful moan of desire from his throat.Rokuro stretched out his hand lightly, and finally hugged his back tremblingly.

The faint lights cast the entangled shadows of the two people on the wall, like two entangled beasts.

六

Xu Da was unwilling to open his eyes.

He was afraid that when he opened his eyes, he would find that the confusion last night was just a dream of his own, Liu Lang had never been here, and he still wanted to get married.

But he felt gentle pecks falling on his lips and temples, just like the jumping sunlight.He finally couldn't bear it anymore, opened his eyes, and met Shang Liulang's smiling eyes.

"You..." Are you still there?Xu Da didn't ask so impolitely, he just sighed reassuringly, stretched his arms, and then took Liu Lang into his arms.

Rokuro happily found a comfortable position in his arms, and drew circles with his fingers on his broad chest.

"What time is it?" Xu Da asked lazily, his breath blowing on the curls on Liu Lang's head.

"It's dawn, why don't you ask." Liu Lang laughed.

Xu Da was taken aback, turned his head, and sure enough, he saw that the window was already bright, but he couldn't tell the time.He hesitated and said, "It's dawn... are you... all right?" He remembered that Liu Lang had never appeared in daylight before, and he thought it was a ghost.

"Of course it has something to do with it." Liu Lang said with a smile, "Ghosts will be melted by the sun."

Seeing his smile, Xu Da couldn't take his eyes off: "You...you lied to me?"

Liu Lang laughed even more.It's so pretty, Xu Da thought, what a clean young man, he is the only one in his clean eyes.

"Last night..." Xu Da started to talk, then suddenly turned narrowly, "So ghosts can blush too?"

Rokuro blushed and just smiled.

The two of them got tired of lying on the bed for a while, until Xu Da was so hungry that he reluctantly sat up, "I'll go get some food."

"Okay," Liu Lang didn't get up, but only smiled sideways, "Is there any wine left?"

"Will you stay if you have wine?" Xu Daxiao asked.

"Okay," Liu Lang said lazily, "I'll stay if I have wine."

Xu Da's heart skipped a beat, "How long will you stay?"

"How long do you want to stay?"

Xu Da calmed down and took a deep look at him, "I will believe what you say."

Liu Lang looked at him with a half-smile.

Xu Da finally left the bedroom and went to the kitchen to cook.Ghosts probably don't need to eat, and drinking is just Liu Lang's hobby, but Xu Da still put a lot of thought into this meal.While chopping vegetables, he thought, find a time to cancel the marriage over there, the girl is not going to be happy, she can pay some compensation, but in short, it can't be delayed any longer...

It would be too easy to keep Liu Lang as long as there is wine, he really wants to keep him in his next life.

Unconsciously, I remembered the beautiful spring night last night.Liulang's body is very soft, his voice is very soft, his eyes are very soft, everything about Liulang is folded and opened in his hands, like a piece of paper full of puzzles, crumbled before he can answer.

The aftertaste revived in his body, making Xu Da feel as if he was stepping on cotton.Humming a song, he brought the prepared dishes to the table one by one, and shouted, "Liulang, get up and eat!"

no respond.Xu Da scratched his head and smiled, walked straight into the bedroom, and threw off the quilt on the bed: "Get up, I said—"

He seemed to have been cut through the throat suddenly by the air.

There were no ghosts on the bed, and because Liulang was a ghost, there was not even a bit of residual warmth between the pillows and mattresses.