Si Tian Guan

At the moment when he looked at the person, Liu Chongming suddenly had a sharp nose.

Maybe it was moved by An Ning's story, or maybe it was thinking about their two accidents. Even though they were so close to Qu Shenzhou, it seemed like they had traveled for a long time.

When he fell from the rope bridge, he felt no fear, only regret.

Regretted for being alone for too long, regretted not being forgiven by the little fox in the end, regretted not having the opportunity to complete their six rituals, regretted not being able to give the little fox a happy life.

I once thought that the days that could be used to make up for it were very long, but there will be no more opportunities in the future.

All kinds of miscellaneous things were peeled off from the upper layer of his heart, and he could see clearly, but there was only Qu Shenzhou wrapped in the middle.

The most important position in my heart is only Qu Shenzhou.

He suddenly threw himself on the bed, biting his lips that were still moving slightly like losing his mind. Only here could he know that they were all still alive.

After traveling so long and so far, they can finally be together.

The person on the bed didn't expect this stormy kiss, his cheeks that had just subsided from the fever flushed again, the last breath was sucked out of his chest, and a low sob sounded from his throat.

At first, that hand was beating and scratching on his shoulder in anger and shame. Gradually, Qu Chenzhou wrinkled the clothes on his back, retracted his arms, and pressed Liu Chongming to himself.

The tip of the tongue is entangled between the lips and teeth, wishing to chew and swallow the flesh and blood, and combine them into one.

Liu Chongming was pushed to stand up straight, but they did not separate. The two of them rolled from the bed to the ground together, asking for it indulgently, and crying unscrupulously.

There was a sound of "Oops" at the door, followed by someone asking in a low voice, "Return date, why don't you go in?"

"An Ning, let's go, let's come back later."

The sound of the door closing and the footsteps of leaving finally brought the two of them back to reality. When their lips parted, they were both out of breath with exhaustion, their long hair scattered and tangled together, sticking to their faces with fine sweat.

Qu Chenzhou sat on Liu Chongming's body, his lips were swollen and sore, the corners of his eyes were red as if drunk, and he suddenly raised his hand.

This slap was hard but light, as if he only caressed his cheek, and then Liu Chongming pressed his hand on his face.

"Shen Zhou, wait until the illness recovers before calling, okay?"

Qu Chenzhou couldn't bear to hit with the other hand, he gritted his teeth for a while, then suddenly jumped up, and sat down again.

Liu Chongming groaned from being stunned, and it took him a long time to come back to his breath, and said in surprise: "Shen Zhou, have you eaten the weight, why is it so heavy?"

He was hit on the chest again, but he didn't dare to dodge, he could only softly beg for mercy: "Shen Zhou, I was wrong."

"Where did you go wrong?!" Qu Shenzhou asked with a serious voice.

"I..." Liu Chongming finally found a chance to confess: "I shouldn't disbelieve you, I shouldn't hide everything, I will ask you if I don't understand anything in the future, and I won't think about it on my own anymore. .”

"wrong!"

"Ah... I shouldn't have listened to you."

Qu Shenzhou's expression softened slightly: "What did you not hear?"

Liu Chongming was at a loss for words, and racked his brains: "I don't agree with you wanting to be a Sitian officer..."

He received a moderate pat and said, "You told me not to take off my finger, but I didn't listen."

He touched it softly again, and then changed his words: "You said that you will never regret dying for me, I don't believe it..."

Qu Chenzhou couldn't bear it anymore, and pricked his chest again.

"I said I am willing to die with you, I told you not to care about my life, I told you to run, why didn't you listen!"

Liu Chongming sat up and helped him slide from his chest to his lap.

"Shen Zhou, there is only this request, I can't do it, I don't want to die with you, I want you to live."

Their hands were brought together and slid all the way to Liu Chongming's heart.

"Last time you let go and left me alone. You are so cruel. If you say that again, I will leave you this time and let you taste this..." His mouth was caught by someone pinch.

The panic from last night was still there, and just hearing this made people feel uneasy. If An Ning and the others hadn't found it in time, maybe this sentence would have come true.

Qu Chenzhou seemed to be wronged, his eyes were blushing, and he stopped talking.

How could Liu Chongming dare to take advantage of the victory to chase after him, he couldn't express his stomach full of words, as if he was afraid of scaring people, he asked cautiously: "Shen Zhou, has the fever subsided?"

Qu Chenzhou turned his face away.

A hand rested on his forehead, palm dripping with sweat.

"Retired. Are you hungry? The porridge in the kitchen is still warming on the stove. Eat some."

"Where is this?" He pressed the person still and asked.

Those two slaps last night used up all his remaining strength, he only remembered that he fell headfirst, and he didn't know anything after that.

"It's already out of the mountain. It came out in their flying kite. Now it's living in a private house in the town, not too far from Shimao County."

Liu Chongming heard whispers outside the door early in the morning, he swung his arms down, turned half a circle lightly, and hugged Qu Chenzhou horizontally in his arms.

"After lying down for so long, let's go out and have something to eat. It just so happens that An Ning also said that she wants to see you."

Qu Chenzhou struggled for a while, but couldn't break free, so he had to shrink into his arms and be carried out.

The two people at the table outside the door didn't seem surprised by this, An Ning signaled the people around her to bring porridge and rice, and asked softly, "Is your health better, sir?"

"much better."

After Qu Chenzhou sat down, he found that An Ning seemed a little cramped, and looked down at the table slightly. He had only a little doubt, but when he saw An Ning get up to serve the dishes, he reacted in horror.

"Can you see?"

"Yes," An Ning smiled lightly, touching the hollow eye sockets: "Thanks to Mr., otherwise I would still be half-blind now."

"Me?" Qu Chenzhou was at a loss: "Why don't I remember?

"Speaking of which, sir, I'm not afraid. I've told Mr. Chongming about what happened hundreds of years ago. If you're interested, sir, you can listen to it later as an after-dinner chat to relieve boredom."

It would be a lie to say that he was not surprised, but he encountered too many unimaginable things along the way, and he was not unacceptable, not to mention that "tree monster" was sitting silently opposite him now.

Liu Chongming spoke from the side: "Shen Zhou, these are not important, what is important is what we said before, show An Ning that thing."

Qu Chenzhou remembered, and hurriedly took out the emerald from his pocket: "Does Mr. An know what it is?"

An Ning had heard Liu Chongming talk about what he had seen and heard in the past few days before, and he was not surprised: "It's really a coincidence."

Qu Shenzhou still didn't understand, Liu Chongming put the boned meat on his plate.

"An Ning said that he is a Yanshi, and Yan Guiqi is not the shade tree we saw before, but the Kunlun tree, the tree that reaches the sky, so he is most familiar with this thing. But he said that he will wait until you wake up."

An Ning smiled slightly: "I'm really sorry for betraying Mr. Chongming. I'm not just talking about this coincidence."

He stretched out his palm to Qu Shenzhou, and held the piece of jade on his fingertips.

"You two guessed right, this is the Wood Essence of Yinmu. Water is the right thing, but luckily you didn't try it with fire."

"What's the matter?" Liu Chongming was puzzled: "But I think that thing seems to be able to avoid fire. When I went to dig it out, it didn't get burned along with it."

"After all, it's where the soul is. It's not a problem to support it for a while, but it's been a long time. This thing burns hotter than kerosene. Fortunately, the young master took it out in time, otherwise people would be burned to ashes together in an instant."

The two looked at each other, and they both saw panic in each other's eyes. They were really lucky to come out this time.

But there are others worthy of their attention.

"May I ask Mr. An, since it is the spirit of yin wood, is there anything different?" Qu Chenzhou couldn't say that they were going to use it to fool the emperor, so he asked vaguely, "For example, Ning Shen Shun Qi?"

After all, the emperor is quite frightened by them now, if they die in the current stalemate, they are not the opponents of King Ning and King Huai, and the situation will only get worse.

"It's too small to underestimate it just to be at ease."

An Ning smiled, and signaled Yan Guiqi to put the flower pot on the table, and dip the emerald in the water cup.

"The so-called water grows wood, the essence of wood absorbs all the spirits swallowed by Yin wood, which is where the vitality lies."

He poured all the water in the water glass into the flower pot. There was a dead branch inserted obliquely in the soil, but it sprouted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even tiny weeds burrowed out of the soil like flying.

In just a few breaths, the small flower pot is already flourishing like summer.

Qu Chenzhou heaved a long sigh of relief—God bless, the trip was finally worthwhile.

If it was such a miracle, for the aging emperor, even if he didn't say anything, what he saw before his eyes would be enough for the emperor to regard it as a sacred object.

Liu Chongming stared at him and ate a small bowl of porridge, thinking carefully: "An Ning, if people wear this thing next to their body for a long time, will they also become monsters?

"This person has nothing to do with grass and trees. It is against common sense for a tree to turn into a shade tree and eat people. The vitality that people can draw from wood spirits is limited. Maybe it can only be used as a psychological comfort."

An Ning handed Mu Jing back, looked at Qu Chenzhou and smiled: "But creatures seem to be an exception."

Qu Shenzhou heard Liu Chongming whisper in his ear for a moment, and frowned.

Living two lifetimes is hard enough, he doesn't want to know more about the past, but looking at An Ning seems to have something to do with himself now.

"I?"

"Yes. Mister must not remember." An Ning replied with a smile: "When Mister entered reincarnation, he was afraid of becoming a mediocre passerby. I happened to have a piece of wood essence in my hand, so I gave it to my husband, and entered reincarnation together."

"You mean... Qu Chenzhou caressed his chest, inexplicably astonished at his guess, and didn't even dare to ask.

He once doubted whether An Ning could be trusted before, but compared with them, the other party had overwhelming strength, but his attitude was frank and he didn't ask for anything.

What's more, although it sounds like a powerful and unconstrained style, everything that An Ning said faintly strung together many puzzles.

Liu Chongming asked for him: "You mean that Shen Zhou was born with a piece of wood essence?"

"Yes," An Ning replied with a smile: "Mr. said that in this way, maybe some life force can be preserved. I asked if we could meet again one day. Mr. said that these eyes will never change. I think , I shouldn't find the wrong person."

"No wonder!" Liu Chongming blurted out.

"how?"

"I mean, it's no wonder that shade tree tried so hard to move all night to find us. Does it matter?"

An Ning nodded: "Wood spirits are rare. According to the young master's previous description, its power is not strong. It seems that it has just formed not long ago. Naturally, it is impossible not to covet it."

Seeing that Qu Shenzhou was so startled that he could not speak for a while, he greeted Yan Guiqi and retreated, leaving the two of them quiet.

Qu Chenzhou didn't speak, and Liu Chongming just served him patiently. It's been too long since he sat together like this in Beijing, and he hasn't had a peaceful meal for too long. Such an opportunity has become extremely precious.

"Chongming..."

He heard the trembling in the little fox's usually calm voice, put down his chopsticks, put one hand in his palm: "Don't be afraid."

Qu Chenzhou didn't seem to hear what he said, curled his fingers restlessly in his palm, and said softly: "Those people in the mountains...can't stay...don't let King Huai know about us..."

"I know, Liu Chongming comforted: "Before you woke up, I had already told An Ning, and An Ning said that they would handle it, and those people would not be able to leave the mountain. "

"Then... where are we going next...?"

"Go to Shimao County, okay? With An Ning and the two of them following, we can check the family where the accident happened before without disturbing the yamen."

Before they came to Dinglingqiu, they had already said that before and after Liu Qingyan's accident, a family in Shimao County disappeared suddenly, and they have not been found so far.

Qu Chenzhou hummed a few times in disbelief, and lowered his eyes.

Liu Chongming smoothed the black hair in his hand: "Shen Zhou, do you want to say that I am really a monster?"

He saw Qu Chenzhou raise his eyes quickly, and then avoid looking at each other, he was a little worried.

Even though the little fox has all kinds of calculations in his heart, he can only see others clearly, but cannot understand and tolerate himself, so it is no wonder that he is always willing to put all his eggs in one basket and doesn't take himself seriously.

"Shen Zhou, it doesn't matter what you are, what matters is that you are yourself and your life is unique and incomparable."

Liu Chongming leaned forward and touched the warm lips.

"An Ning said, you and I used to be the same kind, and we have been looking for each other for many, many years. If you are a monster, so am I."

"From now on, I will never leave you alone."

"No matter what you are, you deserve to be loved. If you can't, I will love you forever."

He finally got a response, from the shallower to the deeper, the people in his arms went from restless and flustered to being slowly comforted.

"Shen Zhou, you are my god."