linked to the collar

The next day was the winter solstice, and the grave-sweeping had to be done before noon, but Xiao Ran remembered that he hadn't prepared anything these days, so he remembered to tidy up early.

Just when he was about to sit up, someone next to him reached out and held him down. "Why are you up so early?"

What Bai Ye said last night, Xiao Ran must make some compensation for being angry with him for so many days, and he was lying on his bed and refused to leave no matter what.Xiao Ran was helpless, besides it was getting late and he himself was really tired, so he had no choice but to agree, and slept in the arms of that man all night.A warrior like Bai Ye is easy to wake up, not to mention the person in his arms is moving, so when Xiao Ran moved, Bai Ye could feel it.

"I have to get up earlier, and I have to buy paper money candles... Besides, there are so many people going to the grave today, I'm afraid it will be difficult to walk on the road if it is late."

"Those are all prepared for you, so you don't need to worry about it." Bai Ye yawned, turned over and pressed Xiao Ran into his arms, hugging him tighter. "I'll go with you in a while. If the road is really difficult, I'll just carry you along. What are you afraid of?"

Winter is not suitable for getting up early, a hot bed is always more tempting, let alone in Bai Ye's warm arms.Hearing Bai Ye's words, Xiao Ran felt relieved, yawned a little, and closed his eyes.

By the time Xiao Ran and Bai Ye got up, the sun had already risen.Sitting on the bed and stretching, Xiao Ran felt that he had not slept so leisurely for such a long time.

Bai Ye put on his robe from behind and wrapped his hands around his waist, resting his chin on his shoulder, and buried his face in his black hair. "Hey, Xiao Ran, it's fine to just roll around in bed with you all day."

So the little scholar blushed, and in a panic pushed the person away and stumbled off the bed.

Put on clothes, put on boots, coax the man who was still lying on the bed and refused to move out of bed, help him put on his clothes, and let Kuixishier enter the room to pour water.After washing his face and rinsing his mouth, Bai Ye pulled Xiao Ran to sit down at the table, first used his fingers to smooth out the hair for Xiao Ran, took out a wooden comb from his arms, combed it carefully for Xiao Ran, tied it up, and then put on a blue top. soft feet.

After everything was done, he took two steps back and nodded while watching. "My family's scholar is handsome."

Xiao Ran was made a little uncomfortable by him, knowing that the more this person paid attention to him, the more frightened he became. Seeing that Bai Ye was tying his own hair, he pulled Shi Er to leave the room, and when he was about to leave, he pulled Bai Ye Living. "where did you go?"

"Kitchen, go see what you can bring to the offering."

"Hey, just let them do this kind of thing." While waving his hands away, he pulled Xiao Ran. "Go, go to my room, I'll find you some more accessories, so that Qionghua will not see it and think that you are being bullied above."

"How can I? I think I've gotten a little fat recently..."

"You are swollen! You haven't slept well recently, have you? Don't excuse me, think that I don't know if I haven't stared at it for the past two days? Who is still tossing and turning in bed in the middle of the night, huh?"

Xiao Ran spoke in silence, but his heart was a little sweet, and he couldn't hide the smile on his lips, so he had to change the topic. "The comb just now doesn't seem to be made of ordinary wood, does it? When you comb my hair, it always smells like a light fragrance, which is very nice."

"Hehe, you have bad eyesight, but your nose is quite useful. It's made of sandalwood, smell it," Bai Ye took out the black comb from his bosom and handed it to Xiao Ran. "The person who gave it to me said gold is expensive, so I just think it smells better. If you like it, you can take it."

"A comb made of sandalwood is rare. Where did it come from?"

"Oh, a friend of mine, he happened to enter an ancient tomb a few generations ago, it's a funeral object." Bai Ye dragged Xiao Ran slowly on the corridor, and said casually.

When Xiao Ran heard this, his face changed and he immediately put the comb back to Bai Ye. "I, I don't want it anymore! Since this comb is a funeral object, it must be a treasured item in front of the tomb owner. It's fine to steal someone's favor... Don't make the tomb owner hate it..."

Although the truth about Jia Lan's pretending to be a ghost has come to light, it will be difficult for Xiao Ran to recover after being frightened for a while, so when he heard that it was buried in an ancient tomb, no matter how much he liked it, he dared not take it.

Bai Ye laughed loudly, and pulled Xiao Ran to kiss him. "I'm bluffing! This comb was something from the palace in the previous dynasty. It was given to a eunuch who served by a concubine. Later, the eunuch returned to his hometown and recognized a adopted son. These things are all left to the adopted son. Now The descendants of Yizi’s family were in a difficult situation, so they took these old things out and sold them. Don’t believe me, you know about Fuxing Pawnshop, right? That’s also the property of our Xuantianmen, and this comb was pawned in by others. I Didn’t I look around a few days ago, I happened to see it, and I thought it was elegant, so I took it back.”

Xiao Ran nodded, so it's like this... When he calmed down a bit, his gaze involuntarily glanced back, and fell on the comb that Bai Ye was playing with, Bai Ye saw it and grinned. "Do you like it? I just gave it to you and don't want it!"

Xiao Ran smiled shyly, wasn't he frightened just now?

"I just gave it to you and threw it back to me. Now it's that simple, do you want to go back? Come to my room later and comb my hair too. I'm satisfied, and I'll give it to you!"

Combed Bai Ye's hair and tied a crescent-white headband, with a piece of fine Hetian ancient jade inlaid in the middle of the headband, which added to the arrogance of the man who belonged to the superior.

Bai Ye said that courtesy is reciprocal, and he turned over a bat-shaped colorful colored glaze pendant and hung it on Xiao Ran's waist.

Originally, he wanted to give Li Ran something more, but after hearing the pleasant news, Xiao Ran came back and said that everything was ready and he could go out, so he dragged Bai Ye away.

Qionghua's tomb is located on a mountain in the eastern suburbs of Wuzhou City. Due to the good geomantic omen and the open terrain, many families in Wuzhou City buried their ancestors near this place. The carriage passed all the way, and the official road really couldn't run fast.

"Why did you want to be buried here at the time? Look, the road is not easy to walk." Bai Ye opened the car curtain a little and looked out, then turned around and complained to Xiao Ran, but he did not forget to close the car curtain to prevent the cold wind from blowing Enter.

It was the first time for Xiao Ran to see Bai Ye's exclusive carriage, and he was still curious and impressed by the exquisite and thoughtful interior design of the carriage along the way, and laughed when he heard Bai Ye's words. "How did I think of so many things at the time? Firstly, it was because of the convenience of visiting the grave in the future. Secondly, I didn't want Qionghua to be too far away from me. Besides, Qionghua doesn't go out on weekdays. If she is far away, I'm afraid she won't be able to find her." On the way home, this cemetery is not far from our village and Wuzhou City, so it was convenient at that time."

With a few simple words, Li Ran's affection for Qionghua was undoubtedly revealed, Bai Ye's face became stinky, and he lay down on Li Ran's lap without moving. "What's in those two warm boxes you just brought up?"

"Back to the second master, it's chicken porridge. It's for you and the young master. There are warm egg-filled pancakes on the lower floor. These days, the young master seems to like to eat it." The driver sitting outside the car was beside Lai Fu. Hearing this, he hurriedly replied.

"How can I eat such a greasy thing..." Bai Ye said as he took a small bowl embedded with magnets and placed it on a small iron table, and served hot chicken porridge from the box to Xiao Ran. bowl. "There are snacks in the cabinet at the back, you can look through them yourself to see what you like. Give them this pancake. You have a bad stomach, so don't eat this."

Xiao Ran was originally curious about the small drawers made of jade on the wooden cabinet. Hearing what Bai Ye said, he turned around to check one by one.

Mung bean cakes, tuckahoe cakes, sesame balls, crispy crisps...there are some delicate snacks in the drawers, not many in quantity, but you can tell they are fresh when you smell them.Xiao Ran took out two pieces of mung bean cake, ate one for himself, and put the other in Bai Ye's hand. "It's all for food?"

"It doesn't seem to be the case. I remember that the upper two layers are for food, and the lower ones should be some things I put there." Bai Ye was also a little uncertain, so he raised his voice and asked, "Laifu, is that so?"

"Back to the second master, the upper three floors are for food, the fourth floor is where you put some medicines and the like, and the fifth floor is all your things, I don't know."

Bai Ye thought for a while, then pulled Xiao Ran to open a few drawers on the fifth floor.He is used to being careless, and he remembered that the fourth and fifth floors were not for food, but he didn't know exactly what he stuffed, so it felt like an adventure to be with Xiao Ran.

The drawers were opened one by one, fans, marbles, chess pieces with only white pieces, a few beautifully embroidered handkerchiefs... Xiao Ran held a pink and purple veil and stared at Bai Ye coldly, Bai Ye touched his nose and wiped the veil He snatched it over, pulled the car curtain and threw it out. "It used to be absurd, it used to be absurd... But you are the only outsider who has ever ridden in my carriage, and even Ruhui has never been in it, so I won't lie to you!"

Xiao Ran snorted, and didn't know what it was like in his heart. While bitter about the scarves he saw, he was secretly happy with what Bai Ye said just now... In this mood, Xiao Ran shook his head and sighed.

At this time, there was only the last drawer that had not been opened, and Xiao Ran stretched out his hand to pull it, but Bai Ye suddenly thought of something, and stretched out his hand to stop him. "Don't look at it, don't look at it, drink the porridge quickly, don't get cold later."

Xiao Ran looked at Bai Ye suspiciously, why did he show all the ridiculous things, but not this one?Is there something more absurd hidden?

Bai Ye couldn't bear Xiao Ran's mistrustful gaze, so he gritted his teeth and said, "I'll show you, but don't laugh at me!"

Xiao Ran became more curious and nodded. "Well, I'm definitely not kidding you."

Following Bai Ye's hand, he opened the small drawer, and the inside was empty, except for a blue belt lying in the middle, Xiao Ran took a closer look, and found it looked familiar. "Huh? This belt...why..."

Bai Ye pouted, took out the belt and put it in Xiao Ran's hand. "It looks familiar, right? Of course it looks familiar, it was originally yours!"

With a strong tone, someone's ears turned red.

"But why is my belt here?"

"...One time I stayed at your house overnight, and when I got up in the morning, I wore the wrong belt. I didn't find out until dawn. I changed my clothes in the car, and this belt was left by hand, thinking about when I would return it to you... ...But you ran away not long afterward, and I couldn't find you, so I just stayed." In fact, at first, I forgot to return it, but when Xiao Ran disappeared, I was reluctant to throw it away, for fear of the traces left by this person All disappeared.

Xiao Ran was also a little speechless, and said after a while: "Then can you return it to me now?"

Bai Ye grabbed the belt back and threw it back into the drawer to close it again, all the actions were done in one go. "No! You are all mine now, so why not!"

At this time, the carriage stopped slowly, and Laifu's deep and steady voice sounded. "Second Lord, it's hard to go up the carriage after reaching the bottom of the mountain."

Bai Ye poked his head out to have a look, then got out of the car, helped Xiao Ran lift the car curtain and helped him get out of the car, and said: "You just wait here for us. Please, go to the back car and meet Shier General The grave-sweeping stuff is done, you two go up with us."

There is no road on the mountain, but there are many cemeteries, and some kind people donated money to build a simple path. Today, there are grave sweepers going up the mountain one after another.Bai Ye habitually wants to hold Xiao Ran's hand as he walks, but this will be in broad daylight and in public, how can Xiao Ran agree?One had to hide for a long time to pull the other, but the further up the mountain, the less neat the road was at the foot of the mountain, and it happened that it rained last night, and the road at the back was muddy, and it was easy to slip when stepping on it. Xiao Ran had no choice but to pull the sleeve of the smiling Bai Ye and walk up slowly.

The vicinity of Qionghua's cemetery was fairly clean, Shi Er and the others helped Xiao Ran pull out the weeds, swept around the cemetery briefly, took out all the offerings and placed them in front of and behind the tomb, Shi Er and the others retreated to the side.

Xiao Ran took out the prepared paper money and piled them in front of the tomb, blew on the fire and placed one in the middle, with two on top, and when the fire gradually grew, he slowly put the remaining paper money away one by one go up.

After burning the last one, Xiao Ran stood up, looked up at the ashes of the paper like gray butterflies flying slowly into the sky, looked at the blazing fire and looked at the blue above his head.

Qionghua, is that all I can do for you?

You have not been in my dream for a long time, I miss you very much, I want to know how you are doing down here, if you need to buy anything, tell me, I can also burn it for you.

Qionghua, if you don't come to my dream, I'm afraid, you no longer wait for me, you have already been reincarnated.

I'm afraid, you already know everything, so even you don't want to forgive me, and you decide to leave me.

Let me not even save the last retreat.

Slowly exhaling the depression in his chest, he turned around and saw Bai Ye standing in front of the tomb with his hands clasped, his eyes closed, and he seemed to be whispering something.

Just wanted to get closer to hear what he was muttering, but he seemed to have finished muttering, bowed to the tombstone, stood up straight, opened his eyes, and met Xiao Ran's inquiring gaze. "What's wrong?"

"...Are you worshiping Qionghua just now?"

"What do I ask her to do? I'm talking to her."

"...What did you say? I think you were serious just now."

Bai Ye walked to Xiao Ran's side, took his hand and walked down the mountain. "I told her, let her not wait for you. You will have me in the future, and I will take care of you and treat you well. This will be the case in this life, the next life, and every life. Let her not waste time and reincarnate early. I won't Give her a chance to be with you again."

Xiao Ran was annoyed and funny when he heard the words, how can there be such a domineering person like him?Don't talk about the next life, they can't be together in this life...

Looking up, seeing a piece of paper dust on Bai Ye's forehead hair, he said, "Hey, lower your head."

Bai Ye put his head in front of Xiao Ran. "What's the matter?"

Standing on tiptoe, Xiao Ran stretched out his hand to flick the paper ashes away for him, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, paper ashes, help you..."

Before the words finished, Xiao Ran stood there blankly.

Bai Ye, what a proud person he is, he has never been the only one to order others, and he has never been seen showing weakness in front of anyone, but in front of himself, he can so easily lower his proud head...

When Bai Ye raised his eyes, he saw Xiao Ran staring blankly with his eyes wide open in a daze, which was very cute. Looking around to see if there was no one there, he leaned over and kissed him on the lips. "Xiao Ran, what are you thinking?"

Startled, Xiao Ran hurriedly pushed him away, blushed and walked down the mountain quickly. "No, nothing, let's go back."

After all, I thought too much, but it was useless...