moonlit night

The wedding date of Jiuzhe and Fangzhou is set in two days.It was the day when Li Yuan and Lin An agreed to meet at the East Sea.

The reason why it can be so fast is actually mostly thanks to the Dragon King.

After returning to the Dragon Palace that day, Jiu Zhe drank three jars of spirits,

Only then did he finally gather up enough courage to speak to the Dragon King, resolutely wanting to marry Fangzhou as his wife.And it wasn't until then that Li Yuan knew that long before Penglai's birthday, the Immortal Emperor had privately discussed with the Dragon King about Jiu Zhe and Rong Yan's marriage.

At that time, the Dragon King wanted to marry the emperor so as to stabilize his power. Hearing this, he naturally agreed.But today is different from the past. For an ambitious clan leader like the Dragon King, considering anything,

They still put the word "profit" first.

After the secret talks between the gods and the emperor in the Xuanxiao Palace, the Dragon King was one of the few who got definite information.So he knew that the god did not intend to care about Nian's relationship with the late fairy queen, and he wanted to deal with Prince Yaohua according to the rules of heaven.

He couldn't help smacking his tongue secretly, thinking that the god hadn't left the Taishi Hall for a long time, and as soon as he came out, he would take the emperor's son with a knife, maybe he wanted to use this to gain power.

Before the execution was complete, the Dragon King wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, but unexpectedly, the little bastard Jiuzhe bumped into him recklessly, throwing a golden opportunity in front of him.

You know, in the past, the gate of Taishi Hall was not so easy to enter.

Although Li Yuan disdains to play tricks, he has a good insight into people's hearts, and he has a thorough understanding of the Dragon King's thoughts.really,

When the Dragon King heard that Jiu Zhe wanted to marry the daughter of Lord Yu, his face immediately sank, but when he heard that the god was personally proposing the marriage, his face became clear again.He paced back and forth in his own palace, thought and thought, and still felt that this was a good opportunity to express his opinion to the god, and finally nodded in agreement under Jiu Zhe's eagerly looking forward to it.

As for the previous promise to the Immortal Emperor, the Six Realms hadn't been formally announced anyway, so the Dragon King just wanted to be a drunken talker and forget about it.

Coming out of the Dragon King, Jiu Zhe still couldn't believe that things would go so smoothly. Seeing Li Yuan coming up to meet him, he hurriedly pressed his shoulder and asked, "Ah Yuan, tell me, is this true? Father really agrees." Did I marry Fangzhou?"

Without further ado, Li Yuan punched him on the nose, and asked with a smile, "Does it hurt?"

"Hiss," Jiu Zhe took a few steps back holding his nose, and roared angrily, "Li Yuan! Do you only know how to fight?"

Li Yuan had already hid far away, pretending to be innocent and said: "You asked me to tell you that this was not a dream, this is the most direct way. You should thank me, why are you still blaming me?"

Jiu Zhe wiped away the nosebleed, and said bitterly: "Well, my lord has a lot, so I don't care about it with you. But..."

"But what?"

He said sullenly: "However, Lord Yuqing never promised to officiate for us. If my father finds out that I lied to him, then I will be completely useless."

"What are you afraid of?" Li Yuan sat down beside him, twirled the candied fruit on the table and put it into his mouth, casually said: "This matter is not urgent. The most urgent thing is to settle the marriage quickly, the sooner the better, and we need to make a big show of it." , spread invitations widely, let the six worlds know, so as not to change."

"Breakthrough?" Jiuzhe's expression turned solemn, and he whispered hesitantly, "You mean, Immortal Emperor?"

"Do you still remember that the Fox King said that Fangzhou looks very similar to the late Fairy Queen?" Li Yuan rubbed his chin and reminded, "I heard that the empress and the emperor are deeply in love. The Fox King is right, What is lost forever is the most precious, and in order to get it back, they will often do whatever it takes. So the sooner you get married, the better, so as not to give birth to the pear tree crushing the crabapple."

Jiu Zhe's face changed in an instant, as ugly as swallowing a fly: "I thought you would say that my father made his own decision to agree to the Immortal Emperor, but then went back on his word."

"That's his business, what does it have to do with me?" Li Yuan closed his eyes and fell back, casually picked up a book and covered his face, his voice muffled: "As for Yu Qingjun's matter, I have my own way. As long as the great god can be invited, the Immortal Emperor can only swallow this boring loss, who made his emperor's daughter look as good as the mermaid princess."

Jiu Zhe couldn't understand his indifferent appearance the most, and couldn't help but sarcastically said: "It seems to be true, are you very familiar with Yu Qingjun?"

"I'm not familiar with you. I've only met him once and said a few words." Li Yuan spoke like a dream, and slowly lowered his voice, "But I always feel that I have met him somewhere before. It feels weird... Can't tell."

Very familiar, familiar, as if once engraved in my heart.

Li Yuan still had his eyes closed, and slowly raised his hand, his fingertips climbed into the air, then stopped suddenly, trembling a few times, as if he wanted to touch the imaginary face that he was thinking about day and night.

But was interrupted by Jiu Zhe's distressed voice:

"But I still can't figure out why Lord Yuqing would help me."

"What's wrong with this?" Li Yuan jumped up, "We've done so many things for him, and he hasn't thanked us yet. Besides, Mr. Yuqing is a sensible god, so he must know the twisted melon not sweet."

Jiu Zhe rolled his eyes: "You speak as if you know Mr. Yuqing very well."

"Ashamed, ashamed, I really understand a little bit." Li Yuan was half joking, but the second half of the sentence was rarely serious: "Jiu Zhe, he is different from other gods, he can understand everything in the world. You don't understand, for a god In other words, how rare is that heart."

"It's as if you have been a god. It seems that you should also be called a god." Jiu Zhe's over-excited mood finally calmed down, and he started talking nonsense along with the words: "Shenjun Li Yuan, then He has no flaws?

"Shortcomings..." Li Yuan thought for a moment, then jokingly said: "His only shortcoming is that it has nothing to do with me now. But don't worry, it will definitely be related in the future."

They talked without any scruples behind their backs, but they didn't know that Lin An, who was being talked about by them, was standing in the prison of the Nine Heavens at the moment, looking at the scene below through the small hidden window at the top.

This is a prison cell dedicated to shutting up God, Yaohua huddled in the corner motionless, as if dead.The wounds on his body hadn't healed yet, and they split open again when he was transferred, and patches of dark red in different shades bloomed on the prison clothes.

That face, somewhat similar to his mother's, was full of ashen indifference, unlike Si Tong, who could find ways to make himself laugh out loud no matter what situation he encountered.

The same is true for Tang Ji.

From this point of view, Lin'an thought silently, among the only three remaining gods in the world after the First Conferred Gods War, he was the one who was out of place.

And ten thousand years later, when he came out of Taishi Hall again, he was already out of tune with the whole world.They are afraid of him, alienate him, and hold him on the altar, but it is also equivalent to a disguised isolation and imprisonment, isn't it?

Simply, he has long been used to being alone.It's just that occasionally when I think back to Tang Ji's death by touching the mountain and Si Tong's death in the sky, I will find that since then, it seems that I have never lived again.

Tangji...

Lin'an thought that when he said this name again, his heart would no longer be disturbed.

Until at the East Sea, I saw the demon clan.

He's as fearless as he is.

And almost at the same time, Lin An also met a girl who looked more like Si Tong than Yao Hua.The girl named Fangzhou.

What is lost forever, can it be found again?

Rin stood quietly on the spot, as if standing like a sculpture.

maybe.

After all, Fushengqin has never disappointed him.

But even the soul that Fu Sheng forcibly mended was no longer the same.

Yaohua turned over, and the tip of his nose twitched very lightly, revealing wet water stains all over his face, as if a hole had been broken in the cold and hard shell, allowing people to see the scars inside.

It can be seen that he is serious about Fox King.

What kind of feeling is that?

People in ancient times were favored by the heavens, but since they were born, they have all kinds of shortcomings from the heavens.Yu Tangji couldn't control his tyranny, but Yu Lin'an was born without affection.So he couldn't understand why someone would love another living being more than himself, why Si Tong decided to marry Yiqin without hesitation after meeting Yiqin a few times.

After Si Tong got married, Lin'an took the time to seriously think about this issue.He found that among the men who got along with Si Tong the most, Tang Ji was arrogant and reckless. He was born with a cold heart, but he was gentle and amiable with his qin, like a gentleman.They can only wield knives and play the qin, but Yiqin can make her happy, so it may not be unreasonable for her to choose a boy who serves the qin as her husband.

But Lin'an still doesn't understand what love is.

Also, does Yiqin Ai Sitong really love himself more than he has shown?

The latter answer is very important, important enough for Lin An to judge whether the current Immortal Emperor is sincere or hypocritical.

He stared at Yaohua through the dark window for a long time, and suddenly said:

"Why are you disobedient?"

Behind him came the sound of iron crutches hitting the ground, rattling.The man on crutches stopped deliberately walking lightly, and took a few more steps, standing still not far behind Lin'an.

"Small injury, it's not a problem." Zhao Ya tried to stand up straight, "Don't worry about the gods."

The drunken dream pill given by Zhanling was hidden in his sleeve, but Zhaoya was useless after all, he just endured the painful heat wave in his body, as if by doing so, he could prove that he was not in the same boat, and that the deity did not choose the wrong one people.

The more pain he felt, the more awake he became.

Lin An didn't ask him what he was doing here, and didn't even turn to look at him, he just asked: "Can you tell me what love is?"

"Love," Zhaoya repeated in a low voice, glimpsed through the small window of Yaohua's motionless figure below, and said firmly, "That is something that will tempt people to fall."

Lin'an seemed to laugh, but when Zhao Ya looked up in surprise to tell, the smile had disappeared in the air.

Immediately afterwards, he heard Venerable Silver Crown say:

"Do you still remember? When you first came to Taishi Hall, the deity asked you what is the meaning of being too forgetful. You were a little confused, but the deity didn't tell you the answer. It's not that you don't want to, but because the deity doesn't know what love is. How about forgetting love?"

Zhao Ya was slightly taken aback, he didn't expect that the silence of the god at that time was not what he understood at all.

"Zhaoya, you also think they are in love, is it wrong?"

"Yes." Zhao Ya resolutely said, "It is a mistake to fall in love with a fox demon in the body of a celestial being. It is even more wrong to change one's fate for this reason."

"Then what do you think, how to deal with it?"

Zhaoya thought for a while, and gave his own answer: "If His Highness Yaohua is forgiven because he is the son of the emperor, he will not be able to convince the public. Therefore, the lower officials think that it should be more severe than punishing ordinary immortals, so as to serve as an example to others. "

After finishing speaking, he looked at the venerable's unmoving back, and a little expectation grew in his heart.After only half a month of ascension, Zhaoya was completely disappointed with the atmosphere of the entire heaven. He desperately hoped that the gods would be as cold-blooded and iron-handed as the rumors said, and deal with the dregs as quickly as thunder descending into the world, bringing earth-shaking changes to the fairy world.

Such a deity is worthy of his following.

"It's good that you think so." Lin'an didn't disappoint him, but he was still somewhat unexpected, "But heaven is not the bliss of the West. Those who are born ruthless, and those who practice ruthless way, are rare after all. If you blindly prohibit it, it is possible Backfired."

"That's right," Zhaoya said in thought, "Let's figure out this matter slowly."

"No, you don't understand what I mean." Lin'an shook his head, "You don't understand women, and neither does this deity. You are ruthless, and this deity is also ruthless. But we can't belittle our affection because of this. Otherwise, one day, we will defeated by it."

"I'll be taught by the lower officials." Zhao Ya nodded, but quickly pointed out one of the mistakes, and reminded: "God, not only women, men can also have love between men."

Lin'an finally turned around to face him, and smiled faintly: "I was negligent."

This smile is still fleeting, but Zhao Ya finally sees it clearly.When Lin'an turned around, he happened to meet the other's eyes.Perhaps because such a venerable was so different from usual, Zhao Ya forgot to lower his head for a moment, and just stared at that smile until it disappeared again.

It turns out that gods also make mistakes, Zhao Ya thought to himself, but this made him more real, as if the distance had been shortened a lot.

Complacency is the easiest way to make people relax their vigilance, so naturally, the next sentence blurted out without thinking:

"The gods are born ruthless. But if someone has feelings for the gods, how will the gods deal with them?"

Even Zhao Ya couldn't remember what the original intention of his words was, whether he wanted to remind him, or just asked casually out of curiosity.But before long, he'll wish desperately that he never said it.

Rin thought about it quietly for a moment, and only said: "No."

Because in this world, no one will be emotional with a piece of dead wood.

This is the answer.

Zhao Ya wanted to ask something more, but Lin An ordered:

"Since you are able to go to the ground, don't be lazy here. Go tell the prison officer and put Fox King and Yaohua together."

Zhao Ya was slightly taken aback, and was about to ask what to do if they died in love without waiting for execution.But from the corner of the eye, he caught a glimpse of Yaohua's lifeless appearance through the small window, so he changed his mind again, thinking, maybe this is the only way to ensure that he survives to execution.

So he respectfully said:

"Yes."