Dinon

Yuan Shuyi was walking on the snowy road, before he reached the place where the clan provided the elders with shelter, he saw a crowd of people gathered there from a long distance, the most conspicuous one was the man standing quietly in the crowd. Liang Xuyu and Lu He, who was leaning against her, kept rubbing against her arms.

Yuan Shuyi stood at a certain distance, adjusted his mood, and then walked up slowly.

Seeing her coming, some clansmen automatically and consciously backed away a little bit, and after a while, a path was created in the crowd that people could pass through, and only then could Yuan Shuyi see the center surrounded by the clansmen. What is the situation.

A young man in a black long gown was lying upright in the snow, staring blankly at the snowflakes falling from the sky. With just one glance, Yuan Shuyi recognized his identity. The Fourth Elder, who often The handsome and elegant fourth elder who teased her and read poems to her.But now, he was panting heavily, like a fish trapped in a fishing net struggling in vain for the last time, it was disgusting.The people lying on the ground next to him are all young and vigorous people. Yuan Shuyi recognized one of them. He was the one who was specially in charge of the horses under his own orders. When she was in the grassland, she would ride a horse and run wildly on the grassland for a while, and at this time, that silly boy would shout behind her, "Young master, be careful!"

But now, the young man who usually smiled innocently was lying lifelessly on the snow, his whole body was covered in blood, and there was a shocking gash in his abdomen, which dyed the snow red.Around him, there are many people like him. Their blood seeps into the snow, turning the snow and the grassland red.

There are many people who haven't had time to retract the expressions of surprise and pain on their faces. Their eyes are still open, and the blue in their eyes and the red of their bodies contrast each other, creating an unusually distorted beauty.

Looking at them quietly, Yuan Shuyi's eyes turned dark blue for a moment.

She tried her best to suppress her gushing anger, and walked to the side of the young man lying on the snow step by step, looked down at him, and asked softly, "You don't want to live and die, so why bother them?" ?”

The man ignored her, still staring at the sky obsessively, watching the falling snowflakes.And Yuan Shuyi was not in a hurry for his answer, but just stood there and watched the wind and snow in a daze.

After a long time, the people around did not speak, and finally the still confused deer crane bird couldn't help it, and buried its head in Liang Xuyu's arms with a "woo-woo" cry, and the silence was broken.

"Don't you think this snow is beautiful?" Unexpectedly, the Fourth Elder spoke, with a foolish smile, he stared at the large snowflakes falling from the sky, turned his head to Yuan Shuyi and said with a smile, "Shuyi Yi, look, isn't this snow beautiful? Doesn't it contain human beings—no, it's all things, and it has incomparable beauty?"

Yuan Shuyi didn't answer him, she knew that this moment was just his subjective imagination, he had already indulged in a world that others could not know.

"Look, this snow is so beautiful, so beautiful..." The fourth elder repeated these words incoherently, turned around and looked in Liang Xuyu's direction, with a painful and obsessed expression, and went crazy, "This snow is so beautiful , but it is difficult to escape the fate of melting, I don’t want it, I don’t want it——Xuyu, you pity the fourth uncle, let this snow stay on the grassland forever, okay? Look, how beautiful this snow is! Look! "He kept yelling over there, holding a handful of snow in his arms and holding it in his arms. After seeing the snow melted by his own body temperature with a happy expression, he was in pain and unable to extricate himself, muttering to himself " The snow has melted... the snow has melted...why does the snow melt...yes, it's because of people, it's because of people! I'm going to kill everyone, I'm going to kill everyone, so that the snow won't melt . . . no more . . . Curran, look how beautiful the snow is, isn't it? I won't let it melt . . . no . . . "

Yuan Shuyi glanced at the Fourth Elder who kept holding Xue in his arms with a ferocious expression, and turned and left without the slightest hesitation.Liang Xuyu looked at her expressionless face, sighed and told the clansmen beside him, "Bury them all, the fourth elder... just leave him in the snow field next to the clan cemetery, let him be with the snow for a while .”

The tribe next to her agreed to go, and in a blink of an eye, only Liang Xuyu and the deer crane bird beside her were left in the snow. She was lost in silence for a while, and then stretched out her hand to touch the deer crane's head, causing it to "woo woo ", looking at the teardrops in its eyes as deep as the sea, she smiled slightly and coaxed it, "Lu He, let's go find Shu Yi, shall we?"

I don't know which generation of patriarchs built a pavilion on the hill not far from the grassland. The pavilion is not exquisite, but it is more elegant. The pavilion is paved with glazed tiles and surrounded by water on three sides, leaving only a staircase paved with white jade slabs. , for people to walk.

In the pavilion, Liang Xuyu had already ordered the food and wine to be prepared, but Yuan Shuyi couldn't wait for the wine that was still cooking on the small red clay stove, so he directly took the cold wine that was placed on the side, and poured it into his own mouth with his eyes closed. Drinking vigorously, occasionally choking when she drank in a hurry, the wine overflowing from the corner of her mouth had already wetted her burgundy gauze——just now she felt hot and took off all her warm clothes.

"You can't get drunk if you drink like this." Someone behind said this, and then took away the wine bottle she was still drinking.

You don't need to guess who it is, Yuan Shuyi opened her sleepy eyes impatiently, and shouted at her, "Give me back the wine, hurry up! Otherwise, I..."

"You're welcome to me?" Smiling, Liang Xuyu patted Lu Heniao's head, letting it lie obediently by the stove to keep warm, while he slowly took the wine he had just drawn from Yuan Shuyi, Taking a sip from the air, the bone-cold wine flowed down his throat and into his lungs.

"Now that you know, return it to me quickly." Yuan Shuyi knocked on the table made by Huang Song in dissatisfaction, and urged, "Return it to me quickly!"

"I said you can't get drunk after drinking like this." Liang Xuyu smiled at her reassuringly, then put down the cold wine in his hand, walked to the stove, picked up the wine horn wrapped in a thick cloth to warm the wine, and opened it from inside. He took out his own warm wine, walked slowly to sit down opposite Yuan Shuyi, took two plantain stone leaf jade cups on the table, poured a full cup for himself and Yuan Shuyi, and pushed it to Zheng Yaoyao Yuan Shuyi, who asked for wine, teased her with a smile, "Here, it seems like I haven't seen wine in hundreds of lifetimes, I'm really poor."

"I have never seen wine in hundreds of lifetimes." Yuan Shuyi took the wine she pushed, drank it with his neck up, poured another glass, looked at the transparent green wine in the jade cup, and locked his blue eyes on the opposite side Liang Xuyu, who was still smiling calmly, smiled faintly, "I have learned a lot today. Not only have I seen hundreds of scenes that I have never seen in my life, I have drunk hundreds of wines that I have never seen in my life, and I have also seen hundreds of things that I have never seen in my life. A hard-hearted person that I have never met in my life, tell me, did I make money today?" She drank another glass of wine as she spoke.

Shaking his head, Liang Xuyu slowly sipped the wine in his glass, and said with a slight smile, "You still have such a temper, and you can't change it anyway. Don't you know that wine is the same as tea, and it's tasteful when it's for supplies?"

"Yes, I'm vulgar, I'm really sorry for dirtying the high priest's eyes." Yuan Shuyi glanced at her, said with a blank expression, and then poured another glass of wine.

"You like to play around, and you only spend a few months in the Hui nationality in a year, so you don't know these things." After drinking the wine in the cup, Liang Xuyu looked out of the pavilion in a daze, and the falling snow fell In the water, it disappears. "One or two members of the clan will die at this time, it's just that this year's fourth elder is a little too extreme."

"Is it not enough to eat, or is it too cold?!" Yuan Shuyi heard this, his stomach was full of anger, "Why do you want to die?!"

"It would be great if everyone could have a personality like yours." Liang Xuyu took the large ceramic bowl on the table with a smile, poured a full bowl, and said after taking a sip, "It's okay if it's because of food and charcoal. , Unfortunately, neither. Look, is this Xuemei?"

"You won't be like that lunatic Fourth Elder, right?" Yuan Shuyi was holding a piece of duck breast, and looked at her suspiciously and vigilantly after hearing this.

"It's good to know that the fourth elder is a lunatic." Liang Xuyu nodded with satisfaction, and continued, "Every winter, the grassland snows like this, but this snow is so beautiful, it is white at a glance, and the voices of all things are coming. The snow has vanished in front of them. The houses in the clan are far apart, wouldn’t it be lonely to be alone? Besides, they have lived for too long.”

In a word, as if stepping on a sore foot, the dish Yuan Shuyi was holding fell to the table with a "clack", and she raised her head to look at her.

"When the fourth elder was young, he liked to travel around mountains and rivers, recite poems and fight against each other. He traveled all over the Zhao Kingdom, and naturally met many people on the way, but the one he couldn't forget most was a girl named Ke Lan." Ignoring Yuan Shuyi and looking over Liang Xuyu continued, "The two of them were very affectionate, and they soon reached the point of discussing marriage, so the fourth elder ran back to the clan, determined to resign from his position as an elder, and live together with that girl." The patriarch at the time didn't stop him, and it went smoothly, and he married that girl. It's a very happy story, isn't it?" Liang Xuyu smiled and looked at Yuan Shuyi who was frowning and thinking.

"Looking at his current appearance, I know that he will not be happy." Yuan Shuyi rubbed his dizzy head and said.She knows Liang Xuyu's bad taste best, if she is happy, she won't talk about it at all.

"That's right." Liang Xuyu glanced at her appreciatively, and continued, "It's true that the two are married, but 50 years later, some clansmen said they saw the crazy Fourth Elder, and the patriarch ordered him to be taken away after hearing about it. Go back, lock the crazy Fourth Elder in the ice room, and release him after 30 years when his behavior is no different from ordinary people."

"He...his wife died?"

"It's true that mortals have a limited lifespan. At that time, it didn't seem obvious, but 50 years later, he will still look like a young man, and she will already be old."

"..."

Yuan Shuyi was speechless for a long time.

She just felt that their family was too miserable.

"That's why there is an unwritten rule in the clan that one must marry the same clan." Liang Xuyu took a sip of wine and looked at the lake outside the pavilion with blurred eyes, "Otherwise, one person can bear the rest The endless loneliness in life is too miserable, hehe."

"Why did you tell me these things?" Yuan Shuyi drank a glass of wine without saying a word, and said dully.

"I want to tell you, don't be like the Fourth Elder." Liang Xuyu drank too much wine, and his speech was not clear. "You run around outside all day, maybe you will meet the destined person like... the fourth elder... the fourth elder, but it doesn't matter... it doesn't matter, you give him your life Gu, my family's life Gu is normal If a person stays in the body for ten years, he can guarantee that he will live as long as you, I mean...it means as long as you, that is to say, you share your original lifespan..."

"Why didn't you say this to the fourth elder?" Yuan Shuyi was a little annoyed, since there was a solution, why didn't she say it then? !

"Because..." Liang Xuyu said, but fell silent. It turned out that he had drunk too much.

When Yuan Shuyi saw her rarely lose her composure, she knew it clearly.

The pain in her heart was no less than her.