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【Extraordinary episode · Another year of winter②】

It was snowing heavily, and under the dark gray sky, the frozen lake of Shichahai was silvery white.

The severe cold of the deep winter penetrated into the bone marrow, and the white air in the nostrils of the two blended, with a faint moist and warm sweet feeling.

Li Huan felt that his whole body was about to melt, and couldn't help turning around and hugging Xing Yi.Receiving a response, Xing Yi moved his palm up to hold the back of Li Huan's head, and the tip of his tongue opened the gap between his lips and penetrated in, deepening the kiss very tenderly.

Next to the two of them, Ari rolled his eyes and yawned skyward, then scratched his ears with his hind paw in boredom, and said, "Well, did you think about me being chained by the dog chain when you two were making out? "

Li Huan blushed and pushed Xing Yi away pretending to be calm.

Samoyed was very curious about the new stranger, wagging his tail and sniffing around Xing Yi's feet, Xing Yi looked down at the dog, and then said to Li Huan, "What's going on?"

"It's a long story, probably because Ari is too lonely, and begged me to help him bring a dog back." Li Huan touched the tip of his frozen red nose, and with the help of his palm, he licked his lips where the man's fluid still remained.

Xing Yi noticed that small detail, and couldn't help but smile in his eyes, but he didn't point it out, but said: "It sounds a bit immoral, if Nine Tails knows that you all use demon methods to seduce an ordinary person for the purpose of abducting— —" Having said that, Xing Yi took another look at the Samoyeds who were acting coquettishly around him, and after a long silence, he continued, "I will probably punish you."

Li Huan: "..."

Xing Yi thought for a while, and then said: "If he dares to punish you, I will definitely not allow it here. If I fight him because of this matter, your senior brothers and sisters will not agree either. Huanhuan, you are doing this for that fox dog. Don't you want to have a good New Year?"

Li Huan: "..."

He just abducted a dog, but why does he have the sense of sight to set off another war between monsters, damn it? !

"I will return it, and I will take it home for a new year."

Li Huan also felt that this was done unethically, but at the beginning, he couldn't stand a certain dog scratching the door every night, and it barked very miserably, so this morning's incident happened.

Ari became unhappy when he heard that, and hugged Samoyed with his paws, for fear that his young master would send him back if his stance was not firm.Samoyed stuck out his tongue with a silly face, just thinking that the fox dog wanted to play with him, barked and threw Ari to the ground, and the two dogs rolled all over in snow.

"Oh my god, I'm so proactive!" Ari was so excited that she was about to cry, rolling around with her Samoyed in her arms.

Li Huan felt so ashamed looking at it, and was about to pull the dog leash to separate the two crooked ones, but saw Ari suddenly stop moving.

"What's wrong?" Li Huan asked.

"It seems like something is pushing against me." Ahri looked puzzled, pushed Samoyed away and struggled to get up.

Maybe it was tired from playing, the Samoyed stuck out his tongue and panted a little bit. After getting up, he shook the snow sticking to his hair, and then walked around to a nearby tree, sniffing while leaning his body over, and raised his head under the eyes of everyone. Get up your legs.

Li Huan: "..."

Xing Yi: "..."

At that moment, Li Huan only felt that there was a thunder from the sky, and a certain fox spirit who hadn't reacted at all was scorched on the outside and tender on the inside.

"You!" Ahri was stunned.

Samoyed continued to approach Ari happily after draining the water.Ari was stunned, and was instantly injured by a critical blow. With four claws, he rolled and crawled to hide behind Li Huan.

"Don't come here!" Ari hugged Li Huan's thigh tightly and roared tragically, "A male dog called your sister's Niuniu! Was that man crazy just now?!"

Samoyed was very happy and ran over: "Wow!"

Ali: "..."

"So——" Li Huan handed Xing Yi the dog leash of Samo, motioning him to keep it away, and then said to Ari, "You haven't noticed it's a male dog for so long, have you?"

"Samoyeds look like that, and their hair is so thick, where can I see it?!"

The Samoyed who was taken away whimpered and rushed towards Ari. Ari was about to burst into tears, shrunk into a small fox dog, jumped onto Li Huan's shoulder three times, and felt lingering fear after sitting still. Said: "It looks like it wants to have sex with me?"

"Well," Li Huan said, "after all, you were the one who teased him first."

Ali: "..."

"Cough—" Ari cleared his throat solemnly, and said, "After all, I am a nine-tailed fox spirit. How can it be proper to be raped by a dog? The master can't justify it~"

Li Huan's eyes were cunning, and he glanced at it gloatingly, then reached out and brushed the little fox dog off: "I didn't say that you would abduct it for you, but I didn't say that you would send it back. I have to accompany Brother Yi when he comes back. You can deal with this dog yourself. "

Ari rolled several laps in the snow, got up and said angrily: "You've forgotten your righteousness!"

"We can't be regarded as righteous, are we?" Li Huan walked to Xing Yi's side and threw the dog chain in the direction of Ari.

After regaining freedom, the Samoyed rushed over like a wild horse running wild.

Bow woof——!

Ari: "!!!!"

Ari was so frightened that she ran away, turned her head and roared in grief and anger as she ran: "The ones who have been in bed are different, ahhhhhh!"

Li Huan waved to him and said with a smile: "Remember to come back and eat dumplings~"

After the two stupid dogs ran away, Li Huan rubbed his frozen red hands, turned to look at Xing Yi, and said, "Go back now? Are you tired? Do you need to rest?"

"Need not."

After finishing speaking, Xing Yi took off a leather glove and took Li Huan's right hand to put it on for him, and then held his left hand, interlocking their fingers and inserting them into the coat pocket.

"Is it still cold?" Xing Yi asked after hearing the sound.

The right hand is the remaining body temperature of the man, and the left hand is the delicate touch of the skin. Li Huan shook his head, feeling warm in his heart.

At this moment, the sky was already bright, but it looked gloomy because of the snowfall.The only breakfast shop owned by a local on the side of the road opened for business, and a few early-rising housewives were carrying shopping bags.Line up outside the store for the first pot of fried dough sticks and steaming fresh soy milk.

This city will always be like this, and the more family reunion days, the more deserted it will be.

"It feels like I haven't been alone with you for a long time. Let's take a walk while it's quiet now."

Xing Yi's tone was flat, but because he lowered his voice slightly, it was tainted with an indescribable warmth.

Like... an old lover reunited after a long absence?

The moment this thought came to mind, Li Huan couldn't help but smile and rolled his eyes, and then he was very happy watching the snowflakes falling on Xing Yi's eyebrows melt into a gentle drop of water.

That's probably the cutest drop of water in the world, right?

someone thought happily.

"What are you looking at?" Xing Yi started to straighten Li Huan's scarf, removing the scarf from someone's two frozen red ears.

Li Huan said, "I think you're very pretty."

Xing Yi frowned: "Strange evaluation."

Li Huan: "Before Ari knew that Niuniu was a male dog, she thought she was the most beautiful Samoyed in the world~"

"..." Xing Yi was silent for a while, then said, "It's a strange analogy."

"Don't worry about these details, you know I like you~" Li Huan put his arms around Xing Yi's neck, stood on tiptoes, tried to kiss the drop of water, and said, "Recently, the teachers are at the pawnshop When I come back, Ari and I collect the New Year’s goods sent by the monsters every day, and I’m almost bored to death.”

Xing Yi smiled and said nothing, bowed his head to satisfy someone's kiss.

Li Huan added: "But this kind of boredom only lasts until you come back, and it disappeared just now~"

"Are you hungry?" Xing Yi said.

Li Huan nodded, but he didn't feel hungry at all.It's too early now, and I'm still sleeping as usual. People who don't have the habit of getting up early occasionally feel anorexia when they get up early, but at this time, they must say that they are hungry, otherwise who knows if they will miss something.

Xing Yi took his hand to cross the road, and the two went to the breakfast shop to buy something to eat.

Li Huan couldn't eat anymore, so he casually ordered a cup of soy milk from the boss to warm his hands.Xing Yi felt that this thing was not called breakfast, and asked him if he wanted to buy something else. As a result, someone licked the straw and said "you" slyly. kind of horror.

Mr. Demon Subduing Master who can be molested even if he buys breakfast: "..."

Xing Yi was speechless, hurriedly paid the boss for the soy milk, then left the breakfast shop with someone's shoulders in his arms, and continued to walk along the snowy Shichahai.

Li Huan held the paper cup and drank the soy milk slowly, and asked casually, "What is the temporary task that the teacher has arranged for you?" When the two first met, they had to get tired of it first, talking about this would affect their relationship too much.

"About the monster that occupied Zhu Yan's body." Xing Yi said, "About a month or two ago, the monster in Inner Mongolia said they found someone with a similar appearance, so they asked me to go and have a look."

"Is there any result?!" Li Huan asked sensitively.

During the battle in the East China Sea that day, Qinglong's tendons were picked and he lost his demonic power, and ended up in the same fate as ordinary people.Later, when Qi Jingyu woke up, several people were ordered not to take his life, but quietly sent to Beijing, and now they are detained in Mo Luo's Wanqing pawn shop in all likelihood.

Li Huan had no objection to keeping Qinglong alive. Although he didn't know the reason from the teacher, as far as he was concerned, Suzaku's remaining two souls were missing, Xing Yi couldn't completely transform the demon, and Qinglong had nothing to do with it. The question is who should know the whereabouts of the demon soul most.

But the result of the interrogation was that he didn't know.

In this way, Su Yunhe, whose whereabouts are unknown, naturally becomes very important.

This matter has no clue, so it has not been officially put on the table. Li Huan is anxious but also knows that this is not something that can be solved quickly. Now he suddenly heard that there is news about that thing, and he has been suppressed for a long time. The urgency suddenly became a little unbearable.

But Xing Yi just shook his head slowly and said, "Probably not."

Li Huan became silent for a moment when he heard the words, then quickly adjusted himself, and comforted him: "It's okay, I occasionally heard the teacher mention the identity of that thing, it is a demon, and the whereabouts of demons are always secretive, so it is impossible to be easily found."

Xing Yi let out a flat "Mmm", unable to detect any emotions, but Li Huan could sense that this incident had an impact on him.

If it is too late to find the remaining two souls, there will only be an ordinary life between them, and the sentence "I am still alive, but you are gone" will be the most helpless ending.

Li Huan didn't dare to think about it anymore, feeling his eye sockets were sore, he turned his head to the other side calmly, afraid that Xing Yi would see it, then passed some warm soybean milk over, deliberately changed the subject, and said: "Do you want to drink?"

"En." Xing Yi clasped his wrist, squeezed the straw that was bitten flat by someone, lowered his eyes to look at the knuckles of the other party that were slightly white due to unnatural tension.

Li Huan looked at a piece of debris piled up on the corner of the street, and forced himself to calm down.

At this moment, the man's warm palm reached out without warning and clasped his chin tightly, exerting a little force.Li Huan was originally a little distracted, but at this moment he was taken aback for a moment, and his face was turned away in such a daze - the familiar breath approached, Li Huan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and the ends of his eyes were slightly moist.Xing Yi saw everything in his eyes, lowered his head and kissed Li Huan's lips, and gave him soy milk to drink.

I don't know how long it took, the two parted lips, and Li Huan felt mixed feelings, feeling both happy and somewhat lost.

Xing Yi caressed the side of his face, and lightly touched the end of his eyes with the pad of his thumb.

"There's nothing to be afraid of. You and I are mortals. Are you still afraid that life will be limited and there will be a difference?"

Li Huan was noncommittal and didn't speak, but he couldn't lie to himself in his heart.

He was not just afraid, this matter was like a thorn in the tip of his heart, the slightest touch would make people desperately painful.