not demon

【wedge】

The mountains and forests are damp and cold, and the moon is just showing.Only at the end of the foliage was a brightly lit cabin.

The outside of the house was very clean, a neat row of wooden stools was placed under the wall, and there was a dry well in front of it.

Even if a stone is dropped, there is no echo, and the eaves are gradually shrouded in darkness, making the surroundings seem especially silent.

Candles were lit in the room, flickering, illuminating the floor.

"Don't turn off the lights." The person on Yueyabai's bed pulled the person who was about to get out of the bed to extinguish the candle, smiled slightly, and said in a weak voice: "Let me watch you."

"Qingming..." The man's voice was slightly hoarse, his body trembled a little, but he forced a smile, "Okay, listen to you."

Gu Qingming took his hand, leaned back on the man's arm, and said softly: "Yue Heng, how long will it take? I can't wait..."

"No." Fang Yueheng immediately hugged her tightly in his arms, as if holding a rare treasure, afraid that others would take it away, and seemed to be begging: "Qingming, stay with me for a while."

"What should I do..." Gu Qingming remained motionless in the man's arms, "I'm afraid I'm going back."

"Stay with me for a while..." Fang Yueheng still did not let go, resting his chin on the top of the man's head, closing his eyes, and tightly hugging the gradually stiff man, for fear that he would disappear again in an instant.

Gu Qingming raised his eyes, but his eyes were moist. He felt the bone-chilling cold all over his body, so he couldn't help but clutch the other person's clothes, put his forehead on his chest, and chattered a lot with him.

It seems that the new year is coming soon, Fang Yueheng should go home a few more times to see, his parents must be looking forward to his return.

He also said that the road was windy and snowy, so he must wear more winter clothes and bring the white cloak.

The most important thing is, remember to come back to see him after the next year. He wants the flower cake from Granny Li's on the street, the kind with jujube embedded in it, the sweetest and the best.

Fang Yueheng agreed one by one, stretched out his hand to stroke his hair, and waited until the breath of the person in his arms became weaker and weaker, and the voice of his speech gradually disappeared, then he looked down at the person——

His eyes closed slowly, but his white fingers were still tightly gripping the clothes on his chest.

Fang Yueheng didn't move, and watched that delicate face age instantly, his withered fingers slowly slipped to the bed, and even the flesh and blood turned into a pile of dust.

There was silence all around.

In an instant, only a pile of terrifying bones remained in Fang Yueheng's arms.

He closed his eyes again, stretched out his hand to hold the pile of dry bones tightly in his arms, raised his head and rubbed against the man's skull, and murmured: "Qingming, you said you would come to accompany me tomorrow night. Otherwise, I will Bumped to death in front of your mourning hall."

"Go down to the underworld to accompany you."

【One】

With the light rain pattering, Fang Yueheng stepped out of the carriage first and opened an oil-paper umbrella.

"Slow down." Fang Yueheng helped Gu Qingming get out of the carriage. These days, this person seems to be sick, unable to lift his hands on his shoulders, and wants him to hug him with a pale face all day long.

"understood……"

Gu Qingming's footsteps were flimsy, and he stretched out his arms to wrap around Fang Yueheng's neck. Seeing that he would not let go, Fang Yueheng handed him the umbrella, picked him up by himself, and said with a smile, "Look at you, you look like a girl, with weak legs and feet. Soft and powerless."

"It would be fine if I was a girl..." Gu Qingming held the light yellow paper umbrella in one hand, and retracted his head into Fang Yueheng's arms.

Naturally, he didn't dare to tell Fang Yueheng that it was because autumn was here, and he didn't migrate with the crowd, and it was very uncomfortable to stay here, and a lot of spiritual energy was dissipated, so he was weak and weak.After a while, he might not even dare to leave the door.

"Then you should be a girl." Fang Yueheng smiled at him gently, and walked quickly into the door, the air conditioner was shut out instantly, Gu Qingming felt that the surroundings were much warmer, and broke away from Fang Yueheng's arms a few times, wanting to go to bed and hug her Sleeping by the stove.

Fang Yueheng watched the handsome young man roll into the bed, then reached out and took his own black coat from the bedside and hugged it in his arms, he couldn't help laughing and said, "What are you doing with my clothes in your sleep?"

"Because you didn't hug me, I had to hug your clothes..." Gu Qingming was very unhappy, shrunk to the corner, and got angry with Fang Yueheng.

"Qingming..." Fang Yueheng called him in a low voice, and he slowly moved to the side of the bed, rubbing the man's profuse hair, "It's almost Chinese New Year, I should go home too, this time I want to bring I'll go back with you."

"Ah?" Gu Qingming was startled when he heard this, and sat up from the bed in a panic, "Yue Heng, you, do you want to go home?"

"Yeah, I haven't been home for the New Year in two years." Fang Yueheng didn't notice the panic hidden in Gu Qingming's eyes, and arranged his messy clothes, "But I want to go back with my Qingming."

"Take me?" Gu Qingming couldn't help crying when he heard this, he frowned delicately, stretched out his frosty fingers and pulled Fang Yueheng's sleeve, "Yueheng, can you not go back..."

"What's the matter?" Fang Yueheng also frowned, but he suppressed the doubts in his heart, and still poked Gu Qingming's forehead in a good-tempered manner, "Why don't you go home during the Chinese New Year? I can also let you meet my parents .”

"But, but I don't like dealing with too many people." Gu Qingming's tone was soft, he threw himself into Fang Yueheng's arms and rubbed his chin, "Yueheng, let's stay here for the new year, we were here last year It's been a busy time, this year I promise not to throw other people's lanterns into the river, so just promise me this time, okay..."

Fang Yueheng looked at him like this, so he could only rub his cheeks, "My mother sent me a letter this year, and I must go back. Don't worry, Qingming, I will take you with me wherever I go, you don't have to worry."

"Yue Heng..." Gu Qingming knew that he would not be able to escape this year, so he could only call out his name with a bitter face.

"What are you worried about?" Fang Yueheng didn't understand for a long time, he sighed and stuffed Gu Qingming back into the bed, "It was the same the year before last and last year, you dragged me so hard that I didn't want to let me go back, I'm up to you, but This is the third year, Qingming, why don't you go home with me."

"I..." Gu Qingming became hoarse for an instant, unable to say a word. He buried his head in the quilt and sighed softly in his heart. I also want to go back with you. How could the swallow, who was about to lose its aura, still conjure up a human form?

"Good boy, Qingming." Fang Yueheng also took off his boots and lifted the quilt, "I'll take you home, let the whole house know you, take you to meet my parents, and make you truly a member of the Fang family, okay? good."

"Uh..." Gu Qingming was silent in Fang Yueheng's arms, his heart was like a drum beating, but in his ears were Fang Yueheng's sweet and tiresome love words.

He sighed inaudibly, since he was with Fang Yueheng, he never migrated with the swallows again.

If Fang Yueheng hadn't coaxed him to sleep day and night, held him in his arms and kissed him gently, he might not have survived this bitterly cold winter.

As soon as autumn came, he started to feel sleepy, and then his face turned pale, and he had to wrap himself up thickly before he dared to go out. Fang Yueheng only thought that he was in poor health, so he took more care of him.

But he is a hundred-year-old swallow, and he can transform into a human form only with the protection of spiritual energy, and this spiritual energy also comes from the moisture of spring, the warmth of summer, and the breath of swallows.

Now that Yan Qun is gone, even the last bit of aura is almost exhausted by him, he doesn't know if he can hold on to Fang Yueheng back to Fang's house, even if he returns to Fang's house, he doesn't know if he can hold on Humanoid.

If he turned into a swallow in front of Fang Yueheng, even that person would point at him and call him a monster.

Gu Qingming hugged Fang Yueheng and pressed his forehead against his chest. In his mind, he remembered that Fang Yueheng took the exam the year before last, won the No. 3 score in the written exam, and was sent to Xuzhou as a judge.

Hearing the news, he rushed to Xuzhou, found Fang Yueheng's residence, and begged Fang Yueheng to take him in on the grounds that he met bandits on his way and was displaced.

Fang Yueheng saw that he was handsome and pitiful alone, and he didn't look like a liar who could tell a lie, so he arranged a hut for him to live in temporarily.

When he is free, he will take him around here, Gu Qingming is full of joy, as long as he follows Fang Yueheng, no matter where he goes.

His heavy heart pretended to be Fang Yueheng, the young man who rescued him when he accidentally fell into the mud in the early autumn.

In the late autumn of that year, Gu Qingming was still a swallow in the swallow's nest under the eaves of Fang's house.

Swallows are a species that come and go in spring and autumn, but Gu Qingming, the swallow, unfortunately missed the time when he migrated with his family. When he woke up in a daze, there was already heavy rain in front of him, and the surroundings were deserted. He fluttered in panic After a few strokes, he stumbled and fell off the swallow's nest.

The cold rain beat against his wings, and Gu Qingming heard the dull thunder above his head.

He once thought that he would die in this muddy soil, even if he was a spirit swallow, he couldn't escape this catastrophe.

He even wanted to take human form, so that at least someone would see him and rescue him.

But his cultivation base is not enough, he can only live in the world in the form of a swallow, so even this illusion has been shattered for him.

However, just when he was drowsy and about to fall asleep, he suddenly felt that he was picked up by someone and brought into a quiet and warm room.

Gu Qingming couldn't even open his eyes at that time, he looked like a newborn swallow, so he didn't know who rescued him, took good care of him, and cleaned the wound.

He only knew that the man was very gentle, and when he came back, he would check to see if he had finished the food he had prepared, and to see if the wound on his body had healed. Even when the man was reading under the dim light at night, Gu Qingming could feel it. to his tenderness.But he also knew that the man was terrible even when he was strict.

At that time, Gu Qingming was resting in the birdcage, when he suddenly heard the man yelling from outside the door, and then heard the sobbing of the maid. Can't see it.I had no choice but to bury my head under the wings, and the clear and serious voice of that man was still in my ears.

He can't see now, and after a while, when he fully recovers, he will be able to see the appearance of that person clearly.

When the man came back at night, unexpectedly, he didn't read a book. Instead, he sat next to him, talking intermittently about what happened today.

It turned out that the maid stole the money and refused to admit it, and was finally found out and knelt there begging for mercy.He usually despised such a stealthy villain the most, so he taught her a few words.

Unexpectedly, the maid was crying with pear blossoms and rain, so he couldn't bear to continue talking, so he sent her away.

After hearing this, Gu Qingming lightly pecked his fingers to express comfort.

The man smiled and said, "You little thing can really understand what I say."

Gu Qingming snorted angrily. He was a hundred-year-old Lingyan after all, and he could understand human speech, but he couldn't take human form for the time being.

Just as I was about to turn my back and ignore him, I heard the person's voice softly say: "Remember, my name is Fang Yueheng."

Gu Qingming immediately remembered the name in his heart.He jumped and turned around again, fluttered his wings, and flew up to Fang Yueheng's shoulder by feeling, screaming loudly.

Fang Yueheng chuckled, "You're so noisy after you're sick, I'll throw you out tomorrow."

Unconvinced, Gu Qingming yelled again.

The man touched his head with his white palm, "Why don't I give you a name."

Gu Qingming's heart froze, yes, he has lived for more than 100 years, and he doesn't even have a name.

"What should you call it? Why don't you call it Zhizhi, who made you like to bark so much." Fang Yueheng deliberately joked.

Gu Qingming was so angry that he almost fell off his shoulders, but the man quickly held him in his palm, "I'm just kidding with you, it's a bird of Fang's family, it must have a nice name. "

Fang Yueheng put his head on his head and thought for a while, "I can't even open your eyes. You must be very beautiful when your eyes are opened... How about I call you Qingming?"

It seems, also can?Gu Qingming rubbed his cheek to express his approval, Fang Yueheng smiled softly, put him back in the birdcage, and started quietly flipping through the books again.

The candles flickered, and the shadows of the lights remained.I don't know how long these days have passed, but Fang Yueheng is getting more and more busy, as if he is preparing for some exam, he reads until late every day, sometimes he doesn't even go back to his room, and just falls asleep in the study .

It was only later that Gu Qingming learned that Fang Yueheng was going to Beijing soon to prepare for the scientific examination.He was in a panic, afraid that one day when he woke up, that person would never come back.

But the worrying thing finally happened. One day when Gu Qingming closed his eyes and waited for the man to comb his feathers as usual, a maid with a bright voice came.

The maid said to herself: "Oh, little thing, the young master has gone to Beijing, and I don't know how long it will take to come back. Seeing how pitiful you are, let me take care of you."

When Gu Qingming heard this, his whole body collapsed.Fang Yueheng left anyway, without leaving him a word, and left.

He was so distressed that he buried his head in the wings, and he didn't want to show his head whether it was for him to drink or eat.

He hasn't even seen that person yet.