flower and big devil

When there is an expensive decoration on the body for no reason, it is usually difficult for people to convince themselves not to pay attention to it-especially when that thing still carries a kind of pain from the bone all the time.

So Luo Xiu got a new little problem after he was in his twenties, and now every few minutes, he couldn't help but want to raise his hand to touch the earlobe that was slightly swollen due to congestion—on his first day By the time they repeated this action four times, they had crossed the entire commercial street and arrived at the door of a coffee shop that looked ordinary from the outside. At this time, the man walking in front was pushing away the As the bell hanging on the door rang, there was a jingle and crisp fragrance. Uzrok turned around, holding the door with one hand helplessly, and stretched out the other hand to grab the door. Luo Xiu wanted to touch the wrist of his ear: "Don't touch it, if there is nothing wrong with it, you won't be able to find out the problem."

Then?

Then Luo Xiu didn't touch it anymore.

Because obviously, compared to the swollen and painful earlobe that was almost numb, the skin touched by the man's slightly cold big hand clasped on his wrist has a sense of presence.

Sitting in the coffee shop that was evaluated as "delicious", the Cardinal of Buddha Luomen was sitting on a window seat with his "pet". The coffee shop was very quiet, at this time There are very few customers, only the people at the next few tables lowered their voices and whispered. With the heating in the store, the comfortable and relaxing environment always makes people have the urge to distract themselves unconsciously.

Luo Xiu was fascinated by looking at the crowds and carriages outside the window of the coffee shop through the misty white fog caused by the temperature difference. The sky had been gray since they left this morning. The young man began to add the fourth packet of sugar to the Americano in front of him, and at this moment, like his white sugar being evenly sprinkled into the coffee cup with a slight "swipe" sound, the sky suddenly shattered Some white powdery objects fell down from the ground.

"what?"

The black-haired young man stopped his back slightly, and his black eyes opened slightly like a curious kitten or puppy saw something he liked or surprised him, as if to make sure that what he saw was It's real, not my own dazzled... It was an inconspicuous gesture, but it was still attractive. The man sitting opposite him couldn't help but raise his eyelids and look at him——

Glancing at the black-haired young man sitting opposite his desk with one hand propped on his chin, the man gracefully picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip—the Americano without any sweetness or extra milk was his The only drink other than alcohol that is understandable in the world.

He once tried to take a sip of carbonated drinks like Coke when he first came to the world. The pure sweetness tormented the sensitive taste buds on the tip of his tongue. Heck, sometimes even a well-informed person like Uzrok would wonder how human beings could invent such a thing to torture themselves and still enjoy it.

"It seems to be snowing." Luo Xiu pointed out the window and said casually.

Half a day did not get a response.

He turned his head, only to see that the man sitting opposite him across a small table was not only not looking out the window, but was looking at him with that kind of unscrupulous eyes. When the snowflakes outside the window kept falling, Through the glass, those falling white objects made the man's pupils of different colors particularly bright - Luo Xiu guessed that this should be his illusion.

Anyway, that look made him shudder.

"Well, it's snowing." Luo Xiu withdrew his hand in embarrassment, and after shaking his fingertips in mid-air needlessly and helplessly, he lowered his head and grabbed the coffee spoon next to the coffee cup, stirring the " Americano" becomes a hot beverage of "white coffee".

After a long time, he heard the man sitting opposite him slowly say in a lazy and deep voice: "I think compared to the snow scene that can be seen every year, when you speak now looks better."

"What?" Luo Xiu raised his head subconsciously.He couldn't believe his ears—because he seemed to hear a love story that was even more vulgar than a romantic movie in the 70s just now.

Sure enough, when he was racking his brains on how to jump over this topic in a decent and unembarrassing manner, the man slowly finished the second half of the sentence he hadn't finished saying: "You know what, you're halfway through now." The face is all stiff, and only one corner of the lip moves when you speak, like a patient suffering from Parkinson's symptoms, I'm really worried that a drop of saliva will suddenly drop from the corner of your lip when you speak."

Luo Xiu: "........."

Uzrock: "Just a pierced ear, don't make it look like I punched a hole in you with a power drill."

Luo Xiu: "........."

The man ignored the disfigured look on the face of the black-haired young man who was ridiculed by him. He put down the coffee cup in his hand and glanced at the cup on the opposite side. Coffee, straightened the gloves on his hands: "Next time you don't like coffee, you can tell me in advance, you can order what you like, and I will accompany you."

Luo Xiu: "Oh."

Putting the tip on the table, the man looked at the black-haired young man who stood up with him, and held back for a while. The Lord Demon King, who has never cared about other people's hobbies in his life, finally took the first step in thousands of years. He lowered his eyes unnaturally, and pretended to be interested in the decoration of a store outside the coffee shop, but asked in a forced casual tone: "Then what do you like to drink?"

"Me?" The black-haired young man who didn't notice anything wrong with the man said after thinking about it seriously, "It should be Coke."

"..."

"When you have a cold, cooking coke with ginger is also very effective."

"..."

What works, this strange combination is known to be a dark dish from the first sound - the eyes stared at the back of the black-haired young man's head complicatedly, and the man who was unlucky was very silent, but at this time, the person walking in front had nothing to say. Turning back with signs, a pair of black eyes stared at him without any expression of joking: "It seems that there is a cup of Coke for sale over there, would you like a cup?"

"..." Uzrock said with a headache, "No, thank you."

The two walked into a shop selling Christmas tree ornaments while talking. In fact, the first second they entered this noisy shop, the man already regretted that he chose a task that he thought should be the easiest for convenience. In the decoration shop where people come and go, the ornaments are piled up together. Middle-aged women and children reached out and rummaged desperately in the piles of ornaments decorated with gold powder or ribbons. When he was arguing about the stars and his voice was getting louder and he was about to fight to the death, Uzrok finally reached out his hand and grabbed the black-haired young man who raised his feet and grabbed his sleeves and was about to join the battle: "... shop."

"At this time, it's like this in every store," Luo Xiu said, turning his head and scanning the man up and down. Although this guy is rarely wearing casual clothes today, he still looks like he's out of this world. , so he smiled and said after a few seconds of silence, "If you don't want to squeeze, you can just wait aside."

The frankness and generosity of the black-haired young man in front of him made Master Uzrok feel deeply guilty. He felt that he should not be so hygienic and hypocritical.

But before he had time to accuse himself, he nodded without hesitation and quickly stepped aside.

The man watched the black-haired young man carry a huge white empty frame from the corner of the store under the guidance of the clerk. The cross-sectional area of ​​the huge frame was two or three times wider than the slightly thin black-haired young man. So before Uzrok reflected what he had done, he had already stretched out his hand to take the frame from Luo Xiu. The latter looked up at him in a daze. The man cleared his throat and nodded with his chin. He ordered the pile of messy and fancy accessories that gave him a headache just looking at them: "Go and get them, and I'll help you."

So Luo Xiu really went to get it.

It only took about 20 seconds for him to throw a bear decorative gift box that was probably hanging on the Christmas tree into the basket. When he turned around and rejoined the battlefield, Uzrock reached out and picked up the gift box curiously. I took a look, and I was a little surprised to find that each of the bears inside looked like they had gone through a round of hell-well, to put it more vividly, they were like a group of bears sitting in a car, And that car probably just had a car accident, and no bear survived.

Without hesitation, the man quietly put the box of bears back into the pile of gifts beside him.

Then the dark-haired young man beside him turned around and threw a wreath into the frame.

Uzrock paused, and pinched the garland with two fingers to bring it closer to his eyes. He found that the idea of ​​this thing was pretty good, and it was very suitable to hang in his bedroom in the Hall of Demons during the "Christmas" in hell. It’s just that there is a more down-to-earth way of saying “Christmas” in hell is “Halloween”.

A few seconds later, the "Halloween Wreath" lay quietly beside the "Car Accident Bear".

Followed by "Bloody Mary's Fairy Wands", "Roll of Streamers from the Trash Can", "Fake Foam Gift Box Whose Home Last Year", and "Santa Claus Charm That Will Make You Never Want Christmas Again" After a series of waits, after putting the last "don't know what it is" thing back into the pile of presents, Uzrok casually took a small plastic ball in an inconspicuous corner. Inside the plastic ball was A cute little deer with many snowflake-like white floating objects in it. When it shakes, it seems like snow has fallen in the whole ball——

It's not very colorful, but at least the fawn in it is a normal fawn and not like a creature with teeth and claws like a dragon.

This thing has been under the nose of the black-haired young man just now.

He picks and chooses, but never picks up this seemingly aesthetically pleasing thing and puts it in the basket.

While sighing, did he scare himself by asking questions such as "what do you like to eat" and "what color do you like" after the question "what do you like to drink", the man's forehead was throbbing with veins and he would stand among the crowd The black-haired young man in the middle carried it back, and when the other party looked puzzled, he stuffed the frame in his hand, and then the two changed positions——

"Stand here and don't move," Uzrock pointed to where he was standing just now. When he turned around and wanted to walk into the crowd, he suddenly stopped after thinking about it. He turned around and emphasized a word worriedly. , "Don't take anything."

The black-haired young man who had no idea that the Bishop was struggling in his heart at this moment blinked "Oh", watching the tall and handsome man walk towards the pile of carts full of Christmas decorations, and when the people around him felt When the strong aura of the man approached (probably) subconsciously moved him out of a seat alone in the crowded state, Luo Xiu smacked his lips in the back, thinking that he is handsome but not the same .

Uzrock's movements were fast, he didn't pick and choose like other people, but reached for something when he saw something. Luo Xiu saw with his own eyes a delicate decoration like a magic wand on the man's body. The polite please pass through the hands of at least seven or eight women across the entire cart, and finally passed from the other side of the cart to the hands of the men on this side of the cart. When the middle-aged women of prehistoric animals said thank you, at that moment Luo Xiu felt that he saw roses blooming around the cart.

So about half an hour later, they walked out of the store carrying the packed boxes - at this time the snow outside had already fallen for a while and tended to fall more and more, the ground was covered with a thin layer of snowflakes, which was a bit slippery but It's not that he can't walk, but when Luo Xiu walked out of the store, because of the huge packing box in his hand shaking, the man walking in front reached out and grabbed him as if he had eyes behind his back. He held his left hand, and after a casual "Beware", he never let go of him.

This time, palms meet palms, and the true sense of the cross is closely intertwined.

Along the way, Luo Xiu lowered his head and made a mess of woof, woof, woof, meow, meow. He was very happy that the snow was so heavy at least no one noticed his face that seemed to have a high fever of [-] degrees. Ice and snow with a muddy smell were sucked into the nostrils. It was very cold, and the limbs were so frozen that they almost lost consciousness. Only two places were hot: the chest cavity and the palm of the left hand.

Along the way, he walked towards the place where the carriage was parked, and when he was about to reach the destination, he saw nuns and a certain woman who were carrying the purchased shopping bags and boxes to the carriage with the help of the coachman from a distance. The monkey's dazzling red hair was getting closer and closer, and Luo Xiu remembered that his hands seemed to be still stuck to someone at the moment, and then he kept walking with his head held high at a distance of half a body. The man in front walked steadily and did not show any reaction——

Until Luo Xiu almost couldn't help but want to pull his hand out, he accidentally put down the man, calmly, let go of his hand very naturally, and greeted Sister Maria and the others with that calm voice : "You guys came back so early?"

"Yes, I bought things in a hurry in the afternoon," Sister Maria sprayed white mist from her lips while speaking, her face was flushed with excitement, "Master Uzrok, it's hard to come out here. , shall we go back after dinner after putting away our things? ——Ah, Lord Uzrok, are your earrings newly bought? They are so beautiful, and they suit you very well!"

Luo Xiu took a guilty breath.

Edwin the Red sneezed loudly nearby.

"Thank you." Uzrok said politely, turned around and took the box in Luo Xiu's hand and handed it to the coachman. Then he looked at Sister Maria who was chattering like a bird and smiled gently. "It's not about dinner and compliments on my earrings is it?"

"Yeah, you can see through a woman's thoughts with her ass." The red-haired monkey put his hands in his pockets, shuddered and rolled his eyes and said, "I heard from the old lady who sold hot drinks in the afternoon that after dinner There was a firework show on the other side of the square, and the two girls were so excited when they heard it, they were thinking about how to persuade you—Ah Choo—"

Following Edwin's words, Sister Carrie and Sister Maria turned around and looked at Uzrock who was silent with expectant eyes—because they all knew that Christmas shopping, no matter It will end before dark at any time, and unless the church suddenly collapses during the year, no one can miss the routine prayer after dinner at night.

After a few seconds of silence, when Luo Xiu almost thought that Uzrok would refuse, he unexpectedly heard the man say indifferently: "Yes."

Edwin let out a loud click of his tongue to express his dissatisfaction with this answer, but the sound was quickly drowned out by the cheers of the two young nuns.

It was getting late after putting things away. After choosing a restaurant to fill their stomachs, a group of five people walked in the direction of the crowd to the square where there was a rumor that there would be a firework show.When they arrived at that place, the heavy snow stopped for the time being. Luo Xiu was surprised to find that it was not so much a square as it was an original ecological tiankeng. Sit down on the roughly repaired stone chairs, and the pyrotechnic staff brought a large pile of pyrotechnic shells to the bottom of the pit and were ready. After Luo Xiu and the others found a place to sit down, there were still many people coming here one after another. Come here.

Almost everyone carries a little joy that Christmas is just around the corner.

The surroundings were noisy, Luo Xiu adjusted the hat that he picked up from the carriage and put it on his head. The hat was pressed down so low that it could just cover the jewel earring on his earlobe - during this period, He listened to the people around him talking, and from time to time, when someone called him, he absent-mindedly chatted and laughed, because the surrounding light was a bit dim in this original ecological environment, and Luo Xiu's peripheral vision could be seen from time to time. The man's perfect jaw sweeps across the arc, and whenever this time, no matter whether he is talking or not, he will have a momentary interruption——

What is an outage?

It's just a blank mind.

He thanked the people around him for speaking loudly enough so that even he himself could not hear the earth-shattering heartbeat like the beating of a drum.

Gradually, the crowds coming from outside began to become sparse, and the surrounding area of ​​the tiankeng was filled with crowded crowds. When the first fireworks bloomed in the sky, people cheered and praised very much. ——Looking at the bright purple fireworks blooming layer by layer in the sky, even if Luo Xiu wanted to cooperate, he couldn't help cheering and applauding. The contrast was so stark that Luo Xiu himself felt that he was a very boring person.

When the second firework bloomed in the sky, this time it was like some kind of fleeting flower. The white light also spread out in circles, and gradually extinguished with the most complete pink fireworks——at this time, Luo Xiu felt a hand quietly groping over from his side, covering it quietly. On the back of his hand on the chair.

The black-haired young man was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't break away from him.

The visitor seemed to be encouraged, when the people around raised their heads and immersed themselves in the fireworks appreciation, he grabbed his whole hand and pinched it in his own palm almost recklessly—he seemed to take off his gloves on purpose. When it came down, the temperature of the skin against the skin spread from the fingertips, which was very warm.

Luo Xiu sniffed, and looked up at the continuously blooming fireworks in the sky as if nothing happened.

It's beautiful, but he can't appreciate it.

At this moment, he heard the man next to him call his name in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

"What's the matter?" Luo Xiu turned his gaze away from the sky and asked.

"Suppose you need to answer me for a question." The man's gaze was always on the sky, flickering with the fireworks blooming, "One day, if I have to do something... that may make you unhappy, Are you going to be mad at me?"

"what?"

"It's just a hypothesis," Uzrock smiled, "you don't need to answer."

"..." Luo Xiu only felt that Lord Uzrok was so sour today that he looked like a hero who crawled out of a romance novel, but after thinking about it, he still shook his head unscrupulously, "Probably I'm angry, but after I sincerely apologize, I will forgive you."

As soon as Luo Xiu finished speaking, he saw that the facial expression of the man beside him was obviously paused. He turned his head and stared at him with a pair of beautiful eyes of different colors: "Really?"

"……kindness."

In fact, I really wanted to say "it depends", but it seemed that I couldn't say such tasteless words in this atmosphere, so I nodded indiscriminately, and the black-haired young man just fiddled with the serious topic that he would beat his chest and feet when he thought about it later. past.

As time went by, the hands that held each other tightly seemed to make Luo Xiu's whole body warm and lazy. He watched the fireworks bloom, but his eyelids couldn't help getting heavier and heavier. Finally, in the Unable to resist the drowsiness and muttering "I'll squint for a while", the black-haired young man leaned generously on the shoulder of the man next to him to find a comfortable position to relax and breathe under the cover of the crowd.

During this period, Uzrock didn't make any moves.

Just when he felt that the breathing of the black-haired young man leaning on him gradually became even and long, he quietly tightened the hand holding the other's palm.

At this time, a bunch of the most spectacular and huge fireworks bloomed in the sky. For a while, the whole sky seemed to be bright as day, and the colorful lights bloomed layer by layer according to the order of the spectrum, and the emotions of the people around reached the highest level. At that point, under the multicolored light, the aquamarine stud earrings by the man's ear with his chin slightly raised were reflected in an unprecedented dazzling light.

However, on the contrary, under the cover of the night, almost no one noticed that the man's pair of golden and red eyes had turned into a pair of blood-red pupils at this moment.

When he called the name of the red hair beside him, his voice was hoarse than he imagined.

"Mammon."

"His Majesty?"

The man paused, and looked down at the black-haired young man who was resting on his shoulder and sleeping peacefully, but there was no trace of emotion in those blood-colored pupils.After a long time, he frowned slightly and then quickly opened his eyebrows. He looked away and said calmly: "...do it."