not demon

【27】

"Uh..." Fang Yueheng had an incredulous expression on his face, but he still couldn't laugh or cry in the end: "There is a Chinese herbal medicine called Baizhi."

"Ah, so it's like this!" Gu Qingming suddenly realized, and then said with a smile: "Yue Heng, you are so smart."

"You are too stupid." Fang Yueheng shook his head and said helplessly.

"I'm not stupid..." Gu Qingming lowered his head, looking unconvinced.

If I were stupid, would I still come here from the capital thousands of miles away to look for you?

"Go and tell him, let me see what the prize is." Fang Yueheng stretched his waist, and said to Gu Qingming in a soft voice: "See if I can earn back what I have been supporting you these days."

Gu Qingming ran over quickly, followed the boy who continued to ask the riddles and said, "I guessed the answer."

"So fast? Those four young masters haven't even guessed the second lantern riddle." The young man showed a slightly surprised expression, and when Gu Qingming whispered the answer in his ear, he showed a delighted expression, "Young master guessed it right." , please go to my father and wait."

Then the young man announced to everyone, "Young Master has already guessed the third lantern riddle."

Everyone's complexion changed slightly, and then the pot exploded——

"So fast, I haven't even guessed the second one yet..."

"That's right, what is the second answer?"

"Hey, you guys don't understand the question, do you?"

The young man coughed a few times, waved his hands to calm everyone down, and said in a gentle voice: "Of course we can't solve the lantern riddles. This young man doesn't know us. The Lantern Festival is meant to be lively, so it's meaningless to solve the riddles." gone."

Those who watched from the side also nodded, and said with a smile: "This young man is really smart, he has guessed the old man's lantern riddle, and now I will give him the prize."

As he spoke, he picked up a crimson wooden box from the sandalwood table. The wooden box was decorated with a few crystal beads. The box was engraved with complex patterns, and it contained some precious things.

The old man took the crimson wooden box and handed it to Gu Qingming, who quickly bowed down and thanked him.

The old man stroked his beard again, and said to everyone: "The answer to the riddle has not been announced yet, and everyone can continue to guess, but the prize has already been won by this young man."

"If I can still guess something, my father will also write a calligraphy as a gift." The young man's face was full of smiles, Gu Qingming ignored the discussion of the group behind him, and went straight to Fang Yueheng years ago, with He said, "Yueheng, I got it."

"Do you want to open it now?" Fang Yueheng raised his hand to straighten the hair falling from his ear, "Or do you want to wait a little longer?"

"Wait, wait a while, let's talk again, you won this prize, not me..." Gu Qingming lowered his eyes and whispered to Fang Yueheng.

"You give me a lantern, and I give you a lottery head, isn't it good?"

"En." Gu Qingming's heart seemed to melt into a pool of clear water, and a few small stones fell in it, causing waves. He hesitated and said, "I didn't send you a lantern because I asked you to give me something... ..."

"Why is that?" Fang Yueheng asked.

"because……"

because I like you.Gu Qingming whispered in his heart, but he didn't dare to really tell Fang Yueheng, he just shook his head and said to Fang Yueheng: "It's nothing..."

"What's yours is mine tonight, and what's mine is yours." Fang Yueheng patted him on the cheek and persuaded him softly: "Don't think too much, let's go ahead and see what else is interesting .”

The scene ahead was even more lively. There were dragon and lion dances, and some people were performing acrobatics. Gu Qingming was dumbfounded, as if he had seen something new and interesting. With transparent fingers, he clenched tightly as if he wanted to cover him with heat.

"Yueheng, look, there is a mask seller in front." Gu Qingming pointed to the dazzling array of gadgets in front of him. He walked with Fang Yueheng all the way, and the timidity and shyness at the beginning were gone. Now he is very lively and keeps pulling Fang Yueheng ran around, and when he saw the mask, he said excitedly, "I want to buy one, I want that."

"Buy, buy, buy." Naturally, Fang Yueheng would not refuse, and immediately took him to the small shop in front, and said to him, "Come on, pick one you like."

This mask is exquisitely made, most of which are made of animals, painted with ink and ink, but it doesn't have that strange smell, instead it has a pleasant aroma.

The peddler still had some ghosts and goblins at the bottom of the box and didn't take them out, and Gu Qingming didn't like them either. He looked left and right, picked up a black and white mask, and after looking at it, he felt that this was the most similar to his real body, so he said to Fang Yueheng: " I want this."

"Okay, then you pick one for me too." Fang Yueheng looked at Gu Qingming wearing a mask, and couldn't help laughing, "This mask really suits you."

"I'll pick this for you." Gu Qingming didn't hear his words, picked up a rabbit-shaped mask and put it on his face.

"Hey, hey, this should be worn by the girl." Fang Yueheng took it off helplessly.

"It doesn't matter, you look better wearing this." Fang Yueheng couldn't refuse Gu Qingming's smiling face, so he had to pay for a few copper coins to buy the mask and hold it in his hand.

"If you laugh again, I won't take you to play." Fang Yueheng looked at his appearance, and said with a firm tone that it would be impossible not to teach him a lesson.

"I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I'm giving you this because I see you look good."

"Do I look good with you?" Fang Yueheng stopped and turned to look at him with a soft light in his eyes, "The color is like spring dawn, elegant and out of dust."

"Hmm..." Gu Qingming blushed instantly. "Didn't you say last time that the eldest son is nine-year-old with a clear complexion, and the autumn water is the god jade and the bone..."

"That's your name." Fang Yueheng smiled, walked over and touched his burning cheek lightly.

"Don't talk about this, don't talk about this..." Gu Qingming hurried forward, Fang Yueheng couldn't help laughing when he saw his flustered appearance, and quickened his pace to catch up.

The two played for only a few hours, and the sky was completely dark. Occasionally, a little girl walked by with a lantern, and the wick inside flickered, making people unable to move their eyes. Fang Yueheng kept holding Gu Qingming's hand and did not let go. , the two walked through the rippling pond, seeing the fish swimming happily inside, they couldn't help but stop and watch——

"Yueheng, let's raise a few fish too, please see how beautiful they are." Sitting on the wet grass, Gu Qingming lightly held Fang Yueheng's hand, and scratched his palm three times.

"You can raise them if you want, but I don't have time to feed them, and I may leave it to Lao Li in the end." Fang Yueheng said to him: "But it's okay if you have time to feed them."

"Then you agreed?"

"Well, sure." Fang Yueheng pinched Gu Qingbai's fair cheeks, and there was a small red mark with such force.

"It hurts..." Gu Qingming broke free, rubbing his side face and frowning, "Be gentle..."

This sentence moved Fang Yueheng inexplicably. He wondered why he was always thinking about it. In order to hide the embarrassment on his face, Fang Yueheng coughed twice and said: "We will go early after the lanterns are put on." Go back, or it will be too late and you won't be able to get up tomorrow."

"Do you want to put it here?" Gu Qingming looked around, and found that the evening wind was blowing here, and a dark cloud gradually appeared in the sky, filling half of the sky.

"Why do I feel like it's going to rain, let's go to shelter from the rain first, what should I do if it rains later?"

"Probably not..." Fang Yueheng looked at the lantern in his hand, it was made by Gu Qingming for several days, and he seemed a little reluctant to let it go, so he continued to hold it and said, "Forget it, this You’ve been working on something for a few days, so it’s a pity to let it go like this, I’ll take it back to the mansion and keep it until next year, okay?”

"It's good to put it on next year." Gu Qingming nodded happily when he heard that he wanted to keep his own lantern.

"But I have a request." Fang Yueheng continued to speak: "I want you to accompany me to put up this lantern next year."

The soft place in Gu Qingming's heart was crushed by Fang Yueheng long ago, he nodded and said softly, "Well, I will definitely accompany you."

The two walked quietly for a while, and were about to find a place where they could have some snacks to play, when the sky suddenly began to drizzle, with continuous silk, and it really was like what Gu Qingming said, it was going to rain.

"Look at you, it will rain if you say it rains..." Fang Yueheng was about to make fun of him, but he saw Gu Qingming showing a frightened expression, and there was no way to hide from the rain. Fang Yueheng was a little confused by his frightened look .

But he quickly dismissed this thought, quickly took off his clothes and put them on the heads of the two, and said to Gu Qingming, "What's the matter, are you afraid of getting wet?"

Gu Qingming, who was hiding under the loose clothes, shook his head, and shrank under Fang Yueheng's arms with a look of fear of the cold.

He did know that it was going to rain soon, because he was a swallow, and he was still very sensitive to such sudden changes in the weather, but he didn't expect it to rain so soon, and it had a tendency to get bigger and bigger.

"I, I'm afraid of thunder..." Gu Qingming muttered.

In fact, it can't be said that he is lying. He is indeed afraid of thunder, but he is even more afraid of rain. This kind of cloudy and gloomy weather is the most uncomfortable for him.

"It's okay, there is an inn in front, let's go there to see if there are any vacancies." Fang Yueheng comforted him, and added at the end, "Don't be afraid, ah, I'm here."

Gu Qingming didn't answer, but hid under Fang Yueheng's clothes, as if he wanted to go back quickly.

Fang Yueheng didn't feel at ease seeing him like this, so he stepped up and went to the front to find an inn where he could temporarily stay for one night.