devil may cry

Chapter No.16. The future is long

Even so, the letter still had to be written.Bei Mingyan walked to the edge of the reception desk, and leaned over to look at the rice paper under Xue Luoqian: It doesn't matter if you look at it, but you feel dazzled by a mistake, and when you look closely, you are surprised again——Xue Luoqian's words are the same as his own. There are nine points of similarity. If you follow him to practice calligraphy like Yu'er on weekdays, you should be able to see subtle changes, but others will not be able to see it.He was stunned by the line of words, and actually forgot what he was going to say just now.

"What's wrong?" Xue Luoqian asked after stopping his pen.

They were not standing close to each other at first, but when Bei Mingyan saw the words lost his mind, he couldn't help but move his body forward a few inches so that he could see clearly. When Xue Luoqian spoke again, he suddenly raised his head: "No..." He just raised his head. Opening his eyes and lips, he fell into Xue Luoqian's extremely beautiful eyes.

He grew up in ancient Shu since he was a child, and he treated people with great courtesy; later he stayed in the north all year round, and rarely went down the mountain; after what happened two years ago, if someone suddenly approached him, he would subconsciously avoid it like a frightened bird.

Perhaps it was because of the beautiful eyes, that he was stunned, motionless, and a layer of pink faintly smeared on his pale cheeks.

Xue Luoqian just raised his hand, as if he wanted to touch his face, or the top of his head—Bei Mingyan didn't know, because he suddenly woke up, stood upright, and lowered his head to force himself not to look at those charming eyes. The eyes of people's hearts: "..." He struggled secretly for a moment, not knowing how to address Xue Luoqian.

It's Mr. Xue, which is a name he often uses, and it seems too common; Leader Xue?He is not considered a person in Jianghu; Xue Luoqian...they are not so familiar; as for Luo Qian...

"Patriarch Beiming, did he make things difficult for you?"

Xue Luoqian looked at him calmly, but when he heard this, he suddenly narrowed his eyes and pursed his lips, the knuckles on his hands were tense, the people behind Bei Mingyan were still making noise, only Ye Xiaoyun kept paying attention to the two of them , also noticed Xue Luoqian's abnormality.

Xiao Yan didn't move, and didn't bother to move. He sat beside Ye Xiaoyun with his legs crossed. He didn't get annoyed by Ye Xiaoyun's fingers playing with his hair. It seemed that he had a surprisingly good temper towards Ye Xiaoyun, at least on the surface.Xiao Yan looked at the two people at the counter with his usual gloomy gaze.

Bei Mingyan was closest to Xue Luoqian, but he didn't notice it.Listening to Xue Luoqian's cold voice as always: "No," he added at the end: "Don't worry."

Disturbed by this reassurance, he quickly said: "Then please ask Master Xue Meng to write a letter to Beishan and explain briefly what my two younger brothers have done these days. Please, please don't blame Patriarch Beiming." As soon as the letter with Xue Luoqian's name arrives at the cliffs of Beishan, even his master must give the Xue family and the leader of the martial arts a face. The person was brought down by Xue Luoqian. Maybe the Xue family sent him up the mountain for something. Yi Er's temperament, I am afraid that he has become entangled with Xue Luoqian, asking the other party to take him down the mountain, Xue Luoqian looks cold-tempered, but in fact, Yi Er's kung fu is unstoppable, but Xue Luoqian is not Maybe send them up again, even if you can, you must not bother him anymore, just a letter is enough.

Xue Luoqian stared at him intently, but didn't move his pen: "I'll write, on one condition."

Bei Mingyan was stunned: "...please tell me."

"Change another name." He stroked the pen in the air, the corners of his mouth slightly curved: "You choose."

"Okay... Mr. Xue?"

"Pfft—hahahaha!" Xiao Yan laughed loudly when he heard the words behind him.

Ye Xiaoyun couldn't stand it any longer, and walked over: "Ayan, look at how you make my Xiao Xiao look like!" He ignored Xue Luoqian, who was covered with dark clouds behind the counter, and said earnestly, "Ayan, what did you call me?" ?”

"Ayun... But, but,"

Xiao Yan imitated Bei Mingyan's expression and tone: "But, 'We met yesterday, I'm afraid it's inappropriate', hahaha..."

Ye Xiaoyun was stunned for a moment, and then laughed too: "No way, Ayan, you really haven't changed at all. Now that you've left Beishan, you have to learn the rules of the Central Plains. You're in Xue's territory right now, and being pedantic is absolutely unacceptable. of!"

In fact, in the Central Plains, it is just the children of the rivers and lakes who are informal, such as Ye Xiaoyun who calls Xiao Yan "Xiao Xiao" so familiarly, either the martial arts are better than the other party, or the other party says "Get out!"

Bei Mingyan looked quite embarrassed, and Xue Luoqian didn't want to force him. There will be plenty of time in the future: "That's it," he bowed his head and began to write seriously on the paper after speaking.

Bei Mingyan took a sneak peek at him, seeing that his expression was not displeased, so he felt relieved.

Time flies, it seems that not long after breakfast, it is time to eat lunch again.Except that Ye Xiaoyun accidentally scalded Xiao Yan when adding water to the pot while cooking, everything was safe and sound.

Bei Mingyu and Bei Mingyi had to go to the post station first in the afternoon, where Xue's family would pick them up, but Xue Luoqian still had no intention of leaving.

After dinner, everyone packed their bags and dishes, Xue Luoqian was left sitting in the lobby, and Bei Mingyan left and returned, hesitating to speak.

Just at this time, Bai Qingyu walked into the lobby with Yang Yang, and said with a beaming smile, "The shopkeeper! Brother Young Master and Brother Ayun are fighting again!"

"What?" Bei Mingyan walked up to him in a few steps: "Why? Are you injured?" Then he walked around them and walked to the backyard, when the cute little girl Yangyang grabbed him: "Brother shopkeeper, are you still Don't go!"

"But they..."

"Brother Young Master can't beat Brother Ayun, he was kissed several times!"

"What?" Bei Mingyan suspected that he had heard wrong.

"Yangyang, you shouldn't have said that, you should have said that you were taken lightly a few times."

The little girl followed suit obediently and obediently: "Oh, brother son can't beat brother Ayun, and he has been underestimated several times!"

"Brother, then why does Brother Ayun belittle Brother Young Master?"

"I do not know either……"

"..."

"No..." Bei Mingyan couldn't help laughing, the two children were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and they were lively and cute, reminding him of his younger brother: "You can't use it like this. Forget it, let's not talk about it, you guys Tell me, why did they fight?"

At this moment, Xiao Yan's roar came from the backyard——

"Get out! Stay away from me!"

Then came the voice of his good brother Ye Xiaoyun——

"Ah, I see. Is this trick of yours called playing hard to get? You don't need to be so troublesome..."

Then there was the sound of swords clashing, but after two or three moves, the sound disappeared.

Xiao Yan is the descendant of Biluo's aunt. He is proficient in assassination and manipulation. His martial arts are not weak. Although the Xue family is invincible, they also have natural enemies, that is, the Beiming family.

However, what he met was the Ye family with endless assassins. It was Ye Xiaoyun, who was once as famous as Xue Luoqian, and was accidentally poisoned by this shameless guy yesterday. He couldn't use half of his internal strength for three to five days;

During lunch, Ye Xiaoyun followed him again, pretending to help cook, but almost scalded himself. Ye Xiaoyun practiced martial arts since he was a child and dodged it in time, but Xiao Yan did not doubt that he was being splashed. No benefit.

The people upstairs who packed their bags came down, and Huo Shenfang went north with them back to Zhongzhou Liancheng Division, Bei Mingyan said goodbye to him: "Give my regards to Grandpa Liancheng and Uncle Huo."

Huo Liancheng is the patriarch of the Huo family in Zhongzhou, the fourth younger brother of Xue Yaoshan and his grandmother Beiming Quelan. He is old and his health is not as good as before. Now the Huo family is in charge of his eldest son Huo Ju.

Huo Shenfang is the sole heir of the Huo family's generation. This time he went south to finish what the family ordered. Seeing that the cadaver's route did not follow the government's established route, he followed all the way and ended up here.

The last time he saw Huo Shenfang was four years ago, during the martial arts conference.

Before leaving, he sent off his younger brother again, and the inn finally became quiet. The past few days have been turbulent, and there are many things that are not used to the sudden quietness.

Bai Qingyu became the accountant; his younger sister Bai Yuyang looked at Xiaoxiao, but she was a good cook; Xiao Yan was temporarily working as a cook, because no one else could cook; I work with him every day, and help take care of the guests in the future; Bei Mingyan can just be the hands-off shopkeeper.

None of this matters.

It's just that Xue Luoqian still insisted on not leaving.

After dawdling for another day, a few days ago he had asked someone to make up the gold on the 'Yankai Inn', and now he finally hung up a plaque, and asked Qingyu to write a couplet on it, ready to choose Open the door to welcome guests on a good day and auspicious day.

He also tentatively asked Leader Xue if he was not afraid of delaying time?As a result, leader Xue shook his head and replied, not afraid.

In the past few days, Xue Luoqian always got up in the morning to practice swords in the yard. He got up early and was quiet.

Bei Mingyan didn't know it at first, but one morning he woke up early, opened the window and saw Xue Luoqian walking back with Fengshan in his hand, the sun shone on his white clothes, looking holy and flawless, he was on the third floor, He vaguely saw Xue Luoqian walking towards the lobby.

Bei Mingyan hurriedly washed up and went downstairs, Xue Luoqian had already eaten half of his breakfast, Yang Yang hadn't woken up at this point, and neither had most people in the town, but he had already had his meal.

His hair was a bit messy, and the fine hair on his forehead was wet, hanging down in strands, as if soaked in dew, or like a lotus flower out of water. The sword was placed on the table, and Bei Mingyan knew that he got up early to practice swords Habit.

Since that day, he has changed rooms, anyway, the inn has no shortage of rooms, and there is free sword training every morning, and he is also the leader of the martial arts, so what if he gets up early.

It's just that even if the sword given by Xiao Yan was accepted by him, it would be put on the shelf. He would never be able to hold the sword like Xue Luoqian in his life, and hold the sword to the end of the world.

This seems to have become a kind of tacit understanding between them. Whenever the sky just opened and birds are heard everywhere, one of them is upstairs, lying sleepily at the window and looking at the yard downstairs;

One was downstairs, and Shengxue in white was wielding his sword sharply. After a stick of incense, they each tidied themselves up, and then had a meal together. Even though there was silence, Bei Mingyan felt that such a day was no worse than being a hero.

Maybe this is the life he has always wanted, or maybe this is the person he has been looking for.

He always waited for Xue Luoqian to eat half of his meal before going downstairs, rarely at the same time as Xue Luoqian, lest Xue Luoqian be suspicious, and then he went to bed early, and his energy in the morning was much better. See Xue Luoqian's every move. I can watch it with gusto, without feeling bored at all.

This is what he knows.

What he didn't know was that Xue Luoqian always made an extra breakfast for himself.

Lingnan Zhiyu