Qing Guan: Seven Nights Lotus

Under the tree, two figures, one big and one small, were sitting together. The young one was dressed in ragged clothes and had messy lotus hair. He was already in his teens but was frighteningly thin. He was clearly a beggar.

Another man was leaning against the tree trunk. Although his clothes were a bit messy, he could be seen from head to toe as either rich or noble, but his entire left arm was tightly wrapped with torn cloth strips and was stained with blood. , a little embarrassed.

The man is holding a branch and writing something stroke by stroke on the ground. The little beggar is sitting on his knees, with his hands propped on the ground, looking fascinated. Every time the man finishes writing a word, he asks how to read it?What's the meaning?

After finishing the last stroke, the little beggar stared at the beautiful words on the ground with shining eyes.

"What does this word read?"

The man smiled slightly, "Night."

"Ye?" The little beggar froze for a moment, "Is that my name?"

The man nodded, and then said, "That's a nice name."

This was the first time someone praised him. The little beggar felt as if something was about to burst out of his heart. He raised his head and looked at the handsome man in front of him. His face was turning red little by little, but his face was too dirty to tell.

Then, a lot of people he didn't know came, everyone was riding a tall horse, well-dressed, and when they saw a man, they respectfully half-kneeled on the ground.And the attitude of the man has also changed. It is different from when it was just the two of them. His expression is colder and his voice is colder.

"Are you leaving?" He was disappointed, and asked in a low voice while looking at the tall man's back.

The man looked back at him, and finally smiled slightly, "I'll come back to you."

"Really?" There was a trace of anger in the little beggar's originally disappointed eyes, and he confirmed again and again.

"real."

This is the first time someone promised him, but he didn't wait for that person to fulfill it...

With a sore nose, Mu Qianye opened his eyes. There was darkness all around, and the swaying trees outside the window made rustling noises, which took him a long time to recover.

It's a dream—

Mu Qianye closed his eyes again. How long has it been since he dreamed of the scene at that time?

He has always believed in that promise, but what he waited for was another person who came to him with a bag of gold, which was regarded as that person's return--speaking of which, the other party was considered as benevolent, because he didn't actually do anything.

But he doesn't want money, he just wants someone to accompany him and teach him how to read and write.He has never had anyone to rely on, and once he wants to rely on someone, he doesn't want to give up easily.Like a baby bird, the first thing you see is your relatives.

But two years ago, he finally understood that some things were different from what he had imagined.There are too many things in life that cannot be fulfilled, one wrong step, one wrong step.Now, it's time to give up.

With a long sigh, Mu Qianye got up and got out of bed, put on an unlined garment and walked to the window.On that night two years ago, he was standing by the window looking out like he is now.At that time, the lights on the other side of the wall were brightly lit, and the fireworks illuminated the entire sky in colorful colors. Today, there are no fireworks or lights, only the moonlight sprinkled on the ground, glowing a deserted white.

Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar environment outside the window, with the cool night wind blowing, he lowered his head and couldn't help coughing twice, then raised his head and found Situ Lin standing not far away looking at him.

This scene seemed familiar. On that rainy day, the two of them looked at each other in the same way in the bamboo forest, but the state of mind at that time was completely different from this time.

Looking at the man opposite, Mu Qianye told himself: The five years of lovesickness is just a magnificent picture in his fantasy, unreal and fragile.It was no longer the age for daydreaming, he should have woken up long ago.Even in the bamboo forest, Situ Lin really liked him, but after knowing his true identity, everything became empty.

At this time, Situ Lin was in a different mind. In the first half of the night, he couldn't fall asleep, but it wasn't because of exhaustion.Originally, he wanted Mu Qianye to stay alone in the villa for a while, so that he could experience the feeling of fending for himself, but when he really decided to do so, he couldn't let go.

The man who came to look for Mu Qianye during the day made him a little concerned. Not to mention before, when he was in Weicheng, he also saw another kind of charm of Mu Qianye.

Thinking that Mu Qianye was living next to him, he didn't think much, changed his clothes and came over, until he saw Mu Qianye standing at the window, the scene of the two of them getting along in the past appeared before his eyes again.

For a moment, the little boy five years ago overlapped with the current Mu Qianye, and he realized that he remembered it.

"Why don't you sleep?" Situ Lin asked in a low voice as he walked slowly to the window.

Mu Qianye looked at him, "Aren't you asleep too?"

The conversation, which was so ordinary that it couldn't be more ordinary, made the atmosphere a little weird for a while.Situ Lin didn't like his attitude, as if he didn't care about anything.

"Thinking of what I've done, can't I fall asleep?" He asked with a half-smile.

"The villa owner stays up most of the night, is he just here to make trouble?"

Seeing him suddenly speaking eloquently, Situ Lin stretched out one hand to prop himself on the window sill, and lowered his head to look at him carefully.

Under the moonlight, Mu Qianye's hair was scattered freely, and he was only covered with a thin shirt. His whole body looked thin in the wind. When he saw him, he didn't show any expression.

"Aren't you worried about your future situation?"

Mu Qianye lowered his eyes, "So what about worrying? Will you let me go?"

"What do you think?" Situ Lin chuckled.

Without answering, Mu Qianye turned around, "It's getting late, the owner should go back and have a rest." However, before taking two steps, someone behind him grabbed his arm.

Situ Lin pulled him back with a little force, put him in his arms, clasped one arm on his chest, lowered his head and put it next to Mu Qianye's ear, and asked ambiguously, "Are you accepting your fate? "

Mu Qianye didn't move, but quietly let him hug her.

Seeing that he didn't respond, Situ Lin was not angry either, and raised the corner of his mouth and whispered in his ear: "Today, a man came to find Mr. Lian—"

Mu Qianye raised his head slightly and looked ahead.

"He said that he had admired Mr. Lian for a long time. As soon as he heard that you were taken away by someone, he chased you from Weicheng non-stop. He is willing to pay you a lot of money to redeem you, and begged me to do it. Unexpectedly, there are still people who are so devoted to you -"

Every word he said was full of irony, Mu Qianye listened to him quietly, and then smiled, "Not everyone is as understanding of righteousness as Master Situ, you can afford it, and you can let it go." Down."

He said "owner" one by one, causing Situ Lin to frown, "Are you calling me hypocritical?"

Mu Qianye shook his head, "In the final analysis, I was the one who escaped from the villa privately two years ago, and now I am a member of your Situ villa when I come back. Whether you let me stay here or drive me out, it's all yours that power."

Slowly pulling away his hand, he looked back at Situ Lin, "Or, sell me to other people. Although it's not worth much, it must be worth more than when I sold it to Situ Villa."

Situ Lin grabbed him back again, "What do you mean by that? Sarcastic me?"

"If you want to think that way, I can't help it."

"When you approached me in Weicheng, didn't you want to come back to me? What's the attitude now?" He couldn't help raising his voice.

Mu Qianye withdrew his hand forcefully, "No, it's just that everything is back to the way it was before, but we are different." After he finished speaking, he turned his head and left.

Situ Lin watched him slowly disappear into the darkness of the room. The hand that was holding him just now was still in the air. After a while, he put down his hand and slowly clenched his fist.

Locking Mu Qianye here and not letting anyone take care of his daily life, he just wants him to be soft, even if he just bows his head to him once, he can treat him again regardless of the past.But I didn't expect Mu Qianye to be more indifferent than before.

When he was in the bamboo forest, Mu Qianye's indifference revealed admiration, but now, he has completely lost the emotion at that time.

What Mu Qianye said is correct, they are already different from before——

The relationship with him seems to have reached a dilemma.Situ Lin asked himself in his heart what he was going to do with this person?

It's like something that doesn't belong to me, let go, don't want to; destroy it, but can't bear it.

It's just that God didn't seem to intend to give him time to think carefully. Early the next morning, someone went to Situ Villa again, this time still to ask to see Young Master Lian.

One was just sent away yesterday, and another one came today. The news spread too fast, and compared to the last one, this time it was even worse.

This time it was a middle-aged man who appeared to be well-mannered, but exuded a strong businessman's aura, and from his clothes, he should have a small family business.After a few words of greeting with Situ Lin, the man asked his servants to carry in several large boxes. After opening, there was a box of silver, a box of gold, and a box of pearls, all round and full, and the same size.

Looking at the gold, silver and jewelry in front of him, Situ Lin's expression was not much better than seeing the three big boxes of human heads, and he raised his head and asked, "What does this mean?"

"Sun has been in business for dozens of years. Although he has many wives and concubines, he knew that he needed a confidant in life when he met Mr. Lian in Weicheng a year ago. After a night of drinking and talking with Mr. Lian, he realized that all the entertainment in the business field was just a joke. Although Mr. Lian is a man in a brothel, Mr. Sun has never underestimated him."

The man pointed at the three boxes, "Sun is willing to use these three boxes of gold, silver and pearls to redeem Young Master Lian's life, and I hope that Master Situ will make it happen!"

It was another touching confession, but it sounded like bullshit to Situ Lin.

"What a joke!" He stood up and flicked his sleeves, "Is Situ Villa short of something like you? There is no such thing as Mr. Lian in the world. He is my Situ Lin's man now. Others should stop thinking about him! Back to Qingfeng Your Excellency, go find the next Mr. Lian! Come and see off!"

After all, a man is a businessman, and if the deal fails, he is not stalking, he just frowned, but his eyes showed that he never gave up.

He turned around and was about to leave, but Situ Lin called out, "Wait! Who told you that he was here?"

After thinking about it, the man said a name, which made Situ Lin furious.

"Jade Cold Palace."

However, not long after the man left, before the anger in Situ Lin's heart could subside, the housekeeper came to report again, but this time the people who came came to see Situ Lin for a martial arts competition.

Tournament?

Situ Lin raised his eyebrows. The Situ family has taught their descendants since he was a child. He was well-known in the world at the age of 15, and he was already considered a master. After the age of 20, no one dared to come to challenge him.

More than ten years have passed, and it is unexpected that he still has the opportunity to accept the challenge when he is in his 30s.

But what he didn't expect was that the other party came to him for the same reason as the previous two: for Mu Qianye - if he wins, he will take Mr. Lian away.

As a result, Situ Lin's anger over the past few days was all vented on this "infatuated man".

After finishing off the overwhelmed person in twos and twos, Situ Lin was still angry and asked, "Did someone go to Lan Yuan today?"

The butler behind him replied cautiously, "No. The owner of the villa has ordered that no one is allowed to enter the orchid courtyard. No one has entered since yesterday, and even the daily cleaning has been stopped."

After hearing what he said, Situ raised his head and glanced at the sky. It was already noon and it was time for dinner soon.According to his order, Mu Qianye hadn't eaten since yesterday, after thinking about it, he turned and walked towards Lan Yuan.

However, when he came to Lanyuan, Mu Qianye was not starving as he thought, but was sitting on the wall, eating a green fruit.

"What are you doing?" Situ Lin raised his head and frowned at him when he walked under the wall.

Mu Qianye's legs were shaking, he looked down at him, and said expressionlessly: "Eat."

It was a bit ironic to say that he had no food at all.The two broke up unhappy last night, and when they met today, the atmosphere still didn't ease up.

"How do you know that fruit is edible?" Situ Lin was already a little angry, and his tone of voice became worse.

Mu Qianye chewed slowly, indeed, the fruit was bitter and astringent, but when he was a little beggar, these were already considered good for him.

Looking at Situ Lin, he smiled slightly, and only said, "It can be eaten." Then he took another bite.

Sometimes, he's stronger than he looks.Situ Lin looked at him, thinking that when he was in Weicheng, he had to drink very well, but now it seems that he doesn't really care about these things.Suddenly, he felt that he really didn't know him at all.

"Come down. Come eat with me."

"No, I'm full." Mu Qianye wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and said.

Situ Lin stared at him, thinking that he was losing his temper.

"Come down, go eat. Don't make me say it a third time."

Mu Qianye sighed, "I'm really full."

The more indifferent he was, the angrier Situ Lin became, "You're not too young, why do you have to do this kind of thing that makes fun of your body? Do you still treat yourself as a child?"

This sentence "I'm not too young" made Mu Qianye stunned.Indeed, he is not young.

Even a few years ago, at the age of 15, he was not too young to be a male favorite.What's more, he is over twenty now.Situ Lin likes young and beautiful boys, and now he is farther and farther away from his liking.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Situ Lin folded his hands on his chest and said sarcastically, "You don't do the same thing in front of other people, 'one question and three questions', right? Then how could you attract so many people to become your guests? Are you a big spender and a big spender?”

Mu Qianye frowned, "What do you mean?"

Situ Lin briefly recounted what happened yesterday and just now. After hearing him finish, Mu Qianye didn't frown, and finally just said, "What's none of my business?"

Situ Lin raised his eyebrows and said coldly, "Didn't you hook up those men?"

"Joke! I'm a young lady in a small restaurant, and I earn money from men. What else can I do if I don't hook up with men? I'm not a teacher. You still expect me to be strong?"

"Don't play tricks on me!" Situ Lin yelled, "I told you it was you willing to degenerate! Situ Villa doesn't want to wait, but insists on going out to be a male prostitute and serve people in a lowly way! If someone finds out, I, Situ Lin Where do you put your face? You don't care, I still care!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Qianye waved his hand, and threw the half-eaten fruit at Situ Lin.

"I'll fuck your grandma!"

Situ Lin tilted his head to avoid it, but he didn't expect that Mu Qianye would scold his head and face.

"Do you care? What do you care about? Do you care that I escaped back then or that I lied to you? If I escaped back then, why didn't you come to me? Instead, catch me back like crazy now? If so Because I lied to you—"

After a pause, he looked at Situ Lin, as if he had calmed down suddenly.He thought that what Situ Lin cared about was that he didn't reveal his identity at the beginning, but he didn't expect that what he cared most about was that he was a young lady, because he would lose face.

"What did I lie to you? Your money or your sex? Or your love—"

When asked by him, Situ Lin was stunned, as if there was something on his lips, but he couldn't say it.

Mu Qianye had already calmed down. Some words were held back for a long time, but it was easier to say them.He has no intention of arguing with Situ Lin, his requirements for living are very simple, he doesn't need to wear gold and silver, and he doesn't need delicacies from mountains and seas, he just wants to have someone who can accompany him and belong to him completely.

But now it seems that this person is not Situ Lin.This man is a beautiful dream, and the beauty that is given to him for a moment cannot last long.

It's him who is being self-indulgent!

The body sank, and Mu Qianye fell steadily to the ground, without looking at Situ Lin, and went into the room without looking back.

Behind him, Situ Lin stood in place, listening to the sound of footsteps gradually going away, Mu Qianye in the bamboo forest seemed to be getting more and more blurred, but Mu Qianye, who used to be his male favorite, became more and more clear.

He doesn't know what kind of phenomenon this is, is it good or bad?But the only thing that feels lucky is that this Mu Qianye is the same person.

The glimpse in the crowd, the long-term love in the bamboo forest, Situ Lin feels that he loves and hates him. However, he has hated many people in the past 30 years, but how many people have he loved?

"Master, it's time for dinner." The butler suddenly came over and said.

Situ Lin turned around and strode out of the Orchid Courtyard. The housekeeper followed him closely. As he walked, he asked, "Where did he live before?"

The housekeeper knew Mu Qianye's identity, he was stunned for a moment when he heard the owner's question, and then said: "It should be in the side courtyard."

"take me."

"Huh?" The housekeeper was taken aback, "But the owner, the yard is deserted now, no one lives there."

"Just take me there." Situ Lin stopped talking to him and walked forward.

The housekeeper kept saying yes, and followed closely, leading him the way, recalling which room Mu Qianye lived in back then.

When we arrived at the side courtyard, the entire yard was deserted, the house was empty, and some walls were collapsed. The garden that had not been taken care of for a long time was full of weeds, but all kinds of flowers were still blooming.

Situ Lin has almost never stepped into this place, because it used to be occupied by unfavored male favourites.Whenever someone fell out of favor, they moved in here, some voluntarily, some forced.

Looking at the dilapidated scene around him, Situ Lin couldn't imagine what it was like at the beginning.Following only behind the butler, the two walked through the front yard and entered the main hall.

Thanks to the butler's good memory, after going around, he pointed to the front and said, "Master, it should be one of the front rooms."

Situ Lin didn't speak, he came here just on a whim, and wanted to recall about Mu Qianye from before.

He never thought that the people who went out from here would come back one day, but everything has changed.

The butler looked at several rooms, and finally stood at the door of one of them, turned to look at Situ Lin, "Master, this is the room."

The door was pushed open with a "creak", and a few strands of dust fell from the door frame. The housekeeper covered his mouth and coughed a few times, but Situ Lin stepped in without heeding it.

The room is not big, it is no different from before, there is nothing valuable, except for some old furniture that was not taken away and there is nothing left.

Situ Lin slowly walked a few steps in the room, and noticed that there was still a piece of gauze hanging on the beam. Although the color had turned white after a long time, it could still be seen that it was blue, fluttering slightly with the wind.

It turned out that he liked cyan before——

Squinting his eyes slightly, Situ Lin looked into the inner room, and after walking over, he found that there was nothing inside except a bed.It was the wall behind the bed that caught his attention and stunned him for an instant.

The entire wall is densely packed, all of which are engraved stroke by stroke, and the word "正" is correct.

Every stroke is lovesickness, every stroke is engraved in my heart, one stroke a day, for more than two years.There was no gap in the entire wall, which made his heart seem to be filled.

Before, Situ Lin couldn't imagine how he loved her back then, but now he seems to understand.Uncontrollably, a bit of sweetness gushed out from the bottom of my heart, it was a heartbeat that I hadn't felt in a long time, since I met Mu Qianye in the bamboo forest that time - it was the second time.

At this time, he turned his head slightly and saw several paintings on the other wall.

It is said to be a painting, but it is not an exquisite work, it is just drawn with extremely simple brushwork, like a comic strip.In the first one, a villain is standing and the other is lying on the ground. The standing villain has patches on his clothes.The second picture is a small person with a patch on his body hugging another person, and the third picture is a person holding a cake in his hand and sending it to another person's mouth——

Situ Lin frowned slowly, reached out and stroked the two small figures with his index finger along the traces, and looked down, the two small figures were already squatting together, and one of them was drawing something on the ground with a stick. At the same time, a smiley expression was added to the other person's face.

It was a rough painting, but Situ Lin could still understand it.He knew that one of these two people was Mu Qianye and the other was him.Because in his memory, there were these pictures, which were recalled little by little with the painting in front of him.

"Butler, how did he come to Situ Villa?"

The housekeeper who was always behind him bowed his head and looked back, "He found him by himself. He said that he has no relatives at home and no money to live on. He wants to find a job in the village and he can do anything. I think he is thin and small. Feeling that there was nothing to do for him, he refused. As a result, he sat at the gate of the backyard for a whole day and night, and finally passed out.

"A servant girl couldn't stand it anymore, so she brought him in and gave him something to eat. After waking up, she asked him to wash his face and found that he was quite handsome, so the old slave decided to accept him and asked him to clean the garden. errand. Then—”

Situ Lin already knew what happened next.

Slowly withdrawing his hand, he realized that he had been wrong all along.Some things are preordained in the dark.He once betrayed Mu Qianye once, and a second time a few years ago, and now, it is the third time——

Seeing these two walls, he suddenly understood that whether it was in the past or in the bamboo forest, Mu Qianye's admiring eyes were genuine and without any purpose.

But from the past to the present, there are many people who love him, but no one is as deep and sincere as Mu Qianye.