Eight Realms of Space

In the study room, on the huge desk, Nan Gongyan was frowning to check the Chinese book in his hand.

Seeing him like this, Liu Ruohan frowned unconsciously, and then quickly smoothed the gap between his brows.

Really, isn't he tired of wrinkling his eyebrows like this every day?

While complaining in his heart, he approached Nan Gongyan lightly.

In fact, if you look closely, this guy is quite handsome, he is much more handsome than the idol stars on the earth, and his body looks good, no wonder only those rotten women will rate him as the best.

Perhaps it was because Nan Gongyan had been in the top position for a long time, Liu Ruohan couldn't take his eyes off his handsome appearance with a trace of cold temperament.

Unexpectedly, Liu Ruohan was startled when she met Nan Gongyan's raised eyes, and quickly squatted down to hide, but remembered that she was hidden and the other party couldn't see her, so she quietly took a chair and lay down on the desk again Let's take a closer look at the appearance of my future husband (?).

Lying on the stomach, Liu Ruohan actually fell asleep like this, and when he woke up suddenly, the sun was already setting, and it was evening.

Looking at Nan Gongyan again, he was still reviewing the documents while maintaining that frowning movement.

Has this guy been sitting here all this time?Doesn't he know it's getting dark?

There was a light knock on the door, Liu Ruohan saw the servant girl Xiaoqin come in with an oil lamp, put it on the coffee table not far from the desk, took away the empty bowl on the table, and then quietly backed out.

Sniffing, Ruohan smelled the strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine in the empty bowl.

He looked at Nan Gongyan again. From the beginning to the end, this guy was concentrating on the document in his hand, without even raising his head.

Woo... Liu Ruohan covered his face, so this guy is a workaholic!

No wonder his previous seduction plan was not successful at all!

It's just that once this type of workaholic is tempted by someone, he will be very dedicated, so how can he make Nan Gongyan turn his attention to him?

Liu Ruohan felt that the future was long, so he comforted himself like Ah Q, forget it... If the time is longer, it will be longer, just treat it as a vacation, and rest.

The next day, Ruohan stayed in the study as usual, moved a chair and sat next to Nan Gongyan, and read fantasy novels.Recently, there are too few good Tanmei novels, and fantasy novels are also starting to suffer from a famine.No way, he had to revisit the old novels.

I haven't watched the ending of Magic Speculator yet, let's watch it again.

When he was watching the protagonist show off his magic with Chinese architecture, Xiaoqin pushed the door and came in, holding a bowl of something in his hand, the strong smell of Chinese medicine made Ruohan's nose itch.

After thinking about it, he stepped out of the study, stopped Xiaoqin halfway, and asked about the medicine.

"Young master, how do you know about the medicine?"

"Hey, don't ask, just tell me what's going on."

Xiaoqin looked left and right to see if there was no one there, then whispered, "Mr. Yan used to forget to eat when he was busy, but later he suffered from a stomachache."

"This medicine is prescribed for the imperial doctor in the palace to nourish the stomach."

"A bowl every day?"

"That's right, Mr. Yan doesn't let others know about it. He only says it's for physical fitness."

Ruohan nodded in understanding, and gave Xiaoqin a big silver ingot, making her eyes shine with joy.

"My lord, if you have any questions, Xiaoqin, I will tell you all."

He smiled, handed her another silver ingot, and said, "From now on, just give me the medicine every time you make it."

"Okay, son."

Most of the servants looked down on this son who was born as a petty official, but in the past half a month, many people were attracted by his money offensive.

Give the information you can give, help if you can help, although everyone in Nangong Mansion has a good salary, but money is such a thing, no one thinks too much, right?

As for whether someone will harm their great master, this is completely out of the scope of consideration.Their master is a pure yang body that is rare in a thousand years, and it is invulnerable to all poisons. Mr. Ruohan has no power to restrain a chicken, so how can he harm their master?

This evening is the Night River Festival.

During the dinner, Yin Chen raised his wish to go with Ruohan with shining eyes, and Ruohan nodded with a big smile under the resentful eyes of the Nangong brothers.

So at night, a group of four came to the public street.

The Yehe Festival is a day for folk men and women to express their love to each other.There is not only a bustling night market on this day, but also open performances, and the most exciting thing is the display of lanterns.

Regardless of men and women, whether single, or someone you like, you can carry a lantern and put it in the upper reaches of the river.In the lantern, you can put the name of the person who made the lantern, a password, or other things, or you can leave nothing at all.

If you are single, the person who catches the lantern downstream is the predestined person of the lantern owner.If the person receiving the lantern is the lover of the person who put it on, the love will last forever.

It's just that the river where the lanterns are put into is not ordinary short, and the average quality lanterns will sink soon after floating, so although this festival is held every year, very few people receive the lanterns downstream.

This year happens to be the day of the full moon again. It is said that the couple who receive the lanterns during the full moon will receive the blessing of the old moon and love each other forever.

The butterfly lantern that Yin Chen is carrying is made by Nan Gongjun. Not only did he invite a master with deep knowledge to make it, but he also used high-quality cotton gauze. The bamboo for the skeleton is also a hollow bamboo with a balanced weight. He didn't want the lantern to sink before reaching the downstream.

"Ruohan, do you really not use lanterns?" Yin Chen said to Ruohan, who was empty-handed.

"no need."

"But..." Yin Chen frowned slightly, but this slightly troubled movement had already made Nangong Jun glaring at Ruohan.

"It's really unnecessary." Ruohan shook his head and said, "I don't believe in this kind of thing. If there is fate, even if there is no lantern, I will find that person in the vast crowd."

Yin Chen looked at Ruohan in surprise, and suddenly smiled, "Well, Ruohan, you are so good, there must be many ladies from good families who like you."

"If you fancy someone, remember to tell me, brother."

"Ok."

Ruohan endured goosebumps, uttered nasty words, and finally dealt with Yin Chen and Nangong Jun leaving, only then did he realize that he and Nangongyan were alone.

"Aren't you going with Yin Chen?"

"No, Jun will accompany him to the place where the lanterns are placed."

"Oh? Then why don't you go and see the rare sight of all the lanterns? Or... are you going to go downstream?"

Facing Ruohan's meaningful question, Nan Gongyan hummed lightly.

This guy!

Ruohan had no choice but to use the mind-exploring technique again, only then did he know that Nan Gongyan was entrusted by Yin Chen when he came, asking him to take care of Ruohan and accompany Ruohan to visit the night market.

Although his younger brother is fake, Yin Chen's concern for him is real.

While Ruohan felt the warmth of being cared for in his heart, he couldn't help but sigh for Nangongyan beside him.Just because of a word from the person I like, I voluntarily do something I don't like. This guy Nangongyan really likes Yin Chen.

Seeing Nangongyan like this, for some reason, Ruohan couldn't bear to cultivate a relationship with him, but said, "Let's go downstream."

Nan Gongyan looked sideways at him.

Ruohan pursed his lips, then smiled, and said, "I've changed my mind, I want to pick up the lanterns."

"Maybe I can receive Yin Chen's lantern."

The bright smile made Nan Gongyan dazed for a moment, and then his brows twitched.

Ruohan didn't wait for him to answer, but rushed into the crowd, making Nan Gongyan have to hurry up to follow his footsteps.

Suddenly, a flash of bright vermilion jumped into Ruohan's eyes.

He looked at the girl passing through the crowd in surprise, and muttered, "Why is she here?"

Nan Gongyan also noticed Ruohan's abnormality. Following his gaze, he saw a girl about eleven or twelve years old selling her own lanterns.It's just that in order to prevent the lanterns from sinking, everyone specially customized the lanterns. Although the lanterns in her hand were beautiful, few people came forward to buy them.

Seeing that the girl combed her flat hair, the hair was divided into two equal strands, and there were two big vertebrae tied on both sides of the top of her head. She didn't look beautiful, but she was also delicate and pleasant.Especially her pair of dark and agile eyes, people can't help but want to look at them a few more times.

Why, does Liu Ruohan like this type of girl?

Nan Gongyan guessed in his heart that it turns out that Xiaoguan also likes women.

"Girl! Why did you run down?"

Ruohan grabbed the girl's wrist precisely in the crowd, the girl turned her head angrily, but when she saw Ruohan, surprise flashed in her eyes.

After looking at Ruohan for a while, the surprise in the girl's eyes turned into joy, and she said, "Brother Ruohan, why did you come down?"

Then her small face wrinkled again, and she said, "How did you become like this? It's so ugly!"

Ruohan pulled her to the corner, rubbed her head angrily and amusedly, and said, "Of course I have my own business, but you, is it okay to come down like this?"

"Hee hee, don't worry. It's not me sneaking this time, it's coming down aboveboard."

"Oh?"

The girl whispered, "Sister Hong Niang has been locked up. I am helping her perform the matchmaking task at the Yehe Festival this time!"

"Huh? The matchmaker has been imprisoned again? What mistake did she make this time?"

"Did you steal the ladyboy into a thread, or did you match plants and animals together?"

"Hee hee, no, it's just helping the Dragon Prince of the East China Sea to elope with his lover."

"Really? Is that all right?"

"It's okay, it's okay, with the support of the Queen Mother, and the Empress Guanyin is also watching, that old man Yuelao dares to punish Sister Matchmaker severely, at most it will be the same as before, and she will be banned from going down to earth for a period of time."

"That's good."

The two whispered in the corner, not afraid of being heard by others, but in this world, girls are younger and can marry at thirteen, so an unmarried girl aged eleven or twelve is so close to a man, and they are not relatives Or other things, in the eyes of others, it seems that the relationship is a little unclear.

At least Nan Gongyan turned his head away, and his contempt for Ruohan deepened.

Only those who were born in the smokehouse will regard etiquette as nothing, and in such a place, they will be involved with an unmarried girl openly and aboveboard.Since that girl knew Liu Ruohan, she must have grown up in that kind of place, so there was a trace of disgust in his eyes.

Not only men go to the smoking den, many women with money will also steal men secretly, and according to his investigation, Liu Ruohan has never been out of the smoking den, so the people he knows can only be related to there.It's not surprising that Nan Gongyan would think so.

"By the way, Brother Ruohan, who is that man who is staring at us so far away from us?"

Ruohan turned his head, met Shang Nangongyan's gaze, just caught the fleeting disgust in his eyes, and suddenly felt uncomfortable.

"Ah, I see!" the girl laughed, "He is your new prey this time, brother Ruohan!"

"Hmm... that's it."

"Is your mortal skin part of the game?"

"Whatever you think, I'm going."

"Okay, see you next time then."

"Okay, but you remember to go back early after pulling the red thread, or you will cry again without the golden boy."

"I know, I know..."

Waving goodbye to Ruohan, she suddenly remembered something, the girl chased after her again, stuffed a lantern into Ruohan's hand, and then disappeared with a smile.

In her eyes, with the help of Yuelao's temporary spell, she could clearly see a red line extending from the little finger of Ruohan's left hand, while the other end was wrapped around the finger of the dark-faced man.

Although she didn't understand why the red line split in the middle and the other part disappeared into the distance, but at least this man was definitely involved with Brother Ruohan.

Everyone in the world knows that people with a red line will get married eventually, but they don't know that the red line only represents a marriage, and it is not the same.Otherwise, there would be no such thing as a divorce letter in this world, and there would be no vocabulary such as breaking up or parting, and each of them would be a model couple.

"she left?"

"Ah."

"This is..." Nan Gongyan looked at the lantern in Ruohan's hand, it was a small lantern that could be carried in his hand.It is square and square, with budding peonies painted on it, interspersed with gold and silver threads, and each petal is drawn with great precision.I don't know if it is mixed with a layer of silk. Through the firelight, the peony swayed slightly, like a living thing.

Even the picky Nan Gongyan couldn't help admiring the artist's skills.

Seeing that Ruohan had no intention of going upstream while lighting the lantern, Nan Gongyan couldn't help asking, "Aren't you going to put this lantern?"

Ruohan rolled his eyes and said, "Why should I let it go, and no one will pick it up."

"That's true, and this kind of lantern with several layers added will easily sink, so there is no need to put it up."

Although he knew it was true, Ruohan was still provoked by Nangongyan, and when he was not paying attention, he gave him a hard look.

"oops!"

In such a crowded environment, it is normal for people to bump into people. The girl who collided with Ruohan looked up, and it turned out to be an acquaintance, Xiaoqin.

"Ah, Young Master Yan, Mr. Ruohan, you guys also come out to set off lanterns?"

Seeing the lantern in Ruohan's hand, Xiaoqin naturally thought so, but she was surprised why it was the combination of these two people.

Ruohan shook his head in denial, and saw a dark-skinned man standing beside Xiaoqin, with a simple and honest face, judging by the muscles on his exposed arms, he looked like a craftsman.

So he joked, "Is this your one?"

The man hadn't reacted yet, but Xiaoqin blushed, and the usually bright maid stuttered at this moment.

"It's... it's not..."

"Hehe, there's no need to explain, hurry up, or you'll miss the good time to put the lanterns if you're late."

Xiaoqin blushed and nodded, and was immediately attracted by the appearance of the lantern. Seeing that Ruohan was not going to take it away, she asked for it, and let's go together.

"If you don't keep such a beautiful lantern, you'd be too sorry for the person who made it."

"What's more, these lanterns are only the most beautiful when they are put on, and they will be damaged in a short time. Isn't it beautiful to let them die at the most beautiful time?"

Girls are so emotional sometimes, Ruohan just let her go.

When the moon rises to a first-class height, the banquet of lanterns begins.

The river not far from Huancheng is now shrouded in orange stars.Numerous lanterns on rocking chairs float on the river, looking from a distance, they look like flowers blooming in the river.

When I walked in, I found that the lanterns had different shapes, some were formal squares, some were round like lanterns, and some looked like animals. Although they were not lifelike, they were full of wit and humor. Let Ruohan stare intently.He even saw lanterns made in the shape of boats!

All the way down the river, the number of lanterns gradually decreased. Watching these beautiful lanterns slowly sinking into the water, Ruohan actually had Xiaoqin's words in his heart.

For these lanterns, they may be damaged due to preservation conditions in a few days. Instead of letting them be broken at home, it is better to turn them into a fire in the river. At least they have had such a glorious and beautiful moment.

When they came to the downstream of the river, they only saw a few lanterns. After waiting for a long time, Nangong Jun also rushed over. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but wonder if the lanterns he specially customized for Yin Chen would work. Hold on down the river.

When he was feeling uneasy, someone patted him on the shoulder unexpectedly, and he was startled when he saw that it was his elder brother Nan Gongyan, he immediately became puzzled and said, "Why, elder brother, you also came to pick up the lanterns?"

Nangong Jun's tone sounded unspeakably sour, Ruohan held back his laughter, he knew that Nangong Jun was afraid that Nangongyan would snatch Yin Chen's lantern with him, after all his kung fu was not as strong as Nangongyan.

Naturally, Nan Gongyan also knew what his younger brother was thinking, and shook his head in denial, which made Nangong Jun heave a sigh of relief.

As a younger brother, in his heart, he felt that his elder brother was also interested in Yin Chen, but it was the first time in his life that he fell in love with someone like this. Yin Chen's innocence made him know what happiness is for the first time. So even if it was his elder brother, he was absolutely unwilling to let him go.

Looking up and seeing Liu Ruohan standing obediently by the side, Nangong Jun raised his eyebrows, it's really strange that this little lady came to join in the fun.Then he ignored it and turned to stare at the shimmering river.