Mo Dongyang

July is already midsummer, and although Zhilan Temple is lush with green shade, it cannot stop the approaching heat.There has been no rain in the palace for many days, and the daytime is full of fine weather with clear skies. From time to time, I also look up at the sky, but when I look around, I realize that apart from the scorching sun, there seems to be no cloud in the blue sky.The same is true at night, the bright moon and the stars seem to be inlaid in the sky, because there are no clouds drifting by, the entire starry sky feels almost motionless, even the Milky Way with flowing starlight hanging on the sky is almost still.

But this night is different, the night sky is covered with dark clouds, and dark red clouds are rolling and surging in the sky. From time to time, a few lightning flashes across the sky. Although the entire night sky is illuminated, there are few rumbles. Low and vague.The moisture in the air was almost drained, dry and stuffy.The palace people all went back to their houses, and there were only groups of cicadas crouching on the branches panting in the deserted courtyard.

"It is going to rain."

Looking at the ferocious and gloomy weather outside, I whispered to myself, then closed the window and walked towards the inner hall.

"I put everyone to sleep. The cicadas outside are screaming too loudly. There should be a heavy rain tonight."

I said to Li Shu who was at the side, while speaking, I unbuttoned the palace gown, casually put all the clothes on the screen beside me, and waded into the bathtub naked.In order to cool off the heat, a few ice cubes were even added to the cool bath water. The instant cold and heat collision between my body and the ice water made me shiver.

"It's so cold!"

Trembling, I rubbed the countless tiny bumps on my arms with my hands, trying to smooth them out.

"I told you not to work outside, but you just didn't listen, and you only came in now that you were so hot, of course you would be cold."

Li Shu blamed her face, she turned around and got close to my back, and hugged me in her arms.

"feel better now?"

Li Shu stroked the wet hair on my back to my right shoulder, leaned on my other shoulder, tilted her head and asked me.

"kindness."

I unnaturally lowered my head and answered in a low voice, just to prevent Li Shu from seeing the untimely redness on my face.

"Then you're still shaking like a cat. If you don't know, you might think I'm bullying you."

Li Shu couldn't help making fun of me, but once again tightly wrapped his hands around my waist.

"After Lishu came back from the northern tour, he was so thin that only his skeleton remained. Is the food in the army not good, or did Lishu feel wronged along the way?"

I held my hand that was constantly messing around in the water, turned my head and tried to change the subject.

"It's just that I can't get used to the food there, so I don't feel wronged. I don't know how happy I am this journey!"

Li Shu stuck out her tongue at me with a playful face.

"Oh, what is the happy thing, tell me about it?"

I couldn't help being interested, and hurriedly asked her.

"Well, the emperor has hardly touched me in the past few months. The barracks and the vegetable market are full of chaos. Everyone is too busy to take care of themselves and has no time to take care of me. Every time I ask to go out of the barracks to get some air, I don't mind walking around." People stop me, I feel much more at ease than in the palace."

Li Shu was intoxicated in his own narrative while talking and refused to come out.

"Isn't it dangerous? The barracks are full of spears and swords. Swords don't have eyes. There are also wounded and even corpses!"

I couldn't help frowning, I couldn't imagine that Li Shu could be so happy when he lingered in this fierce and bloody barracks.

"A barracks is not a battlefield, so where can there be so many dirty things." Li Shu retorted me.

"But the barracks are full of high-ranking and rough-looking soldiers..."

I wanted to say something else, but Li Shu hurriedly interrupted me.

"Okay, no, but, didn't I come back safe and sound?"

She pulled a hand out of the water and quickly covered my speaking mouth.

"Hey, no, the emperor can't see through the world of mortals, so he really wants to become a monk?"

I pushed away her hand covering my mouth and asked again.

"How could it be? If this was the case, the country would have been rescued long ago. On the way, he took a few more virgins, and spent the whole day in the barracks. He was the only one who could do prostitution in the daytime."

Li Shu shook her head with a sneer, at this moment, in her eyes, the emperor seemed hopeless.

"The emperor has neglected you these days?" I asked cautiously.

"If you really neglected me, I would be able to live in peace for the rest of my life, which is not like it is now..."

Li Shu sighed deeply and didn't say any more.

"What is it like now?"

I persevered and continued to ask.

"Don't mention these nonsense things, you'll lose your interest at night."

Li Shu pursed her mouth, preventing me from extending the topic further.However, she seemed to remember something, and her expression soon became cheerful again.She turned me to meet her eyes with malicious intentions.

Immediately, I had an ominous premonition.

really!

"Qi Xin, I would like to ask you something. I find that every time I take a bath with you, as soon as I get close to you, you become red and shy, and you are so coy that you don't want me to find out, but you The two ears that are so red that they are about to bleed have betrayed your thoughts long ago. Why, girl Sichun, all Sidu came to me?"

Li Shu raised my pointed chin with a frivolous face, and asked jokingly.

"I···"

I really panicked. I have never been so panicked since I was a child. There are countless panic and anxious voices echoing in my heart. My God, Li Shu won’t know, what should I do!

"If you are really hungry and thirsty, would you like me as the master to give you some rewards?"

Li Shu continued to add oil and vinegar without knowing what to do.

Everyone knows that this is just a harmless joke, but who would take this kind of farce between two close friends seriously? Most people will always follow the other party's obvious intentions to play tricks and continue the entertainment go down.But I don't know if I was too serious or I couldn't bear the joke, the embarrassing blush quickly spread from my cheeks, burning my whole face red, even in the icy cold water, my whole body was still very hot.

Now, I'm really speechless.

Li Shu thought I would argue, but who knew that I would react like this. My flushed cheeks were getting lower and lower, and I was almost submerged in the water.She held me up dumbfounding.

"Isn't it just a joke, as for being so shy?"

I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that she would let me go, but Li Shu seemed to have discovered something strange and stuck it to my ear mysteriously.

"In the palace, you can't taste the smell of a man, but..."

Li Shu pretended to be mysterious and paused for a moment.

"You can try the taste of a woman."

She blew softly in my ear.

It's still a joke, but I still get pimples all over my body.

Li Shu laughed even more happily, and she exhaled like blue, all the way down my ears, the warm lips and teeth were so close to the cold skin, it made me tremble, and the strong numbness between those scalps instantly spread to The whole body, almost made me move.

Panicked, I was about to push her away, but I didn't want Li Shu to pull away first.

I really want to tell Li Shu that your joke is too big and it's not funny.Ke Lishu's original cheerful expression suddenly changed, and I seemed to see traces of suspicion, thinking, uneasiness, and even panic on that unpredictable face, so that I felt that the air around me was frozen.I didn't know what happened, but I swallowed the words I was about to blurt sensibly.

"This... what is this?"

Her voice trembled a little, and her hand caressed my butterfly bone hesitantly.

I didn't know why to follow the position of her finger.

"boom!"

I heard a huge crash, and I don't know which room's windows were not closed properly. Strong air flow rushed in along the long and narrow windows, instantly filling the entire palace.

The sweltering heat and silence before had disappeared, and the sky had already changed unconsciously.

The sound of the wind blowing the branches and leaves outside the window, the creaking of the window cracks, the sound of the wind whistling, the sound of lightning and thunder, and the sound of my heart beating were intermingled, and my face was pale.

The rain is coming and the wind is all over the building.

"It's been hot and humid these past few days, and I've had some rashes, it's okay." I pretended to be calm.

Li Shu just kept staring at me, as if she wanted to see some clues from my face.Unfortunately, these are in vain.

"...It's a rash."

She lowered her head for a moment, then raised her head again, with a smile on her face again. She smiled and reached out to gently caress my cheek, as if she was afraid that a piece of celadon might be broken if she didn't pay attention.

"Be more careful in the future, it would be bad to leave traces."

The corners of her mouth raised slightly, and she stroked those inconspicuous red marks with her hands over and over again, as if as long as she rubbed lightly, these terrible marks would disappear.

I tried to find something in her smile, but in this almost blank smile, I couldn't find anything.It's just that the moment I looked at her, I found that there was no shadow of me in her bright pupils.

"It's going to rain, I'm going to close the window." I said with a forced smile.

Outside the window was already pouring rain, thunder and thunder, the palace had not seen such a heavy rain for a long time, it seemed to wash away all the filth and embarrassment in the palace.

I looked at the torrential rainwater outside the window, washing away the steps outside the hall, the water splashed everywhere, and those splashed raindrops landed again, flowing down layer by layer like a stream with the dirty rainwater , from the stairs, then to the Qingshi Road, until disappearing at the end of Zhilan Hall.

It's raining, I murmured to myself, and closed the window again.