ecstasy

Ning Shiting came back very late.

It was snowing heavily, but it was freezing cold in the early autumn.

He didn't wear much when he went out, and the tips of his ears were red from the cold when he came back.

Tingshu had already carried a lantern and went outside to look for him three times, but was afraid that he would miss him when he went too far, so he came back eagerly and guarded the door.

After finally seeing Ning Shiting come back, Tingshu hurriedly tiptoed to put on a cloak for him, and sent the hot Tang Pozi to his arms: "Young Master, why are you so late? You used to go out to buy spices, and you always came back at sunset home."

Ning Shiting said: "I see it's lively and fun outside, I haven't seen it for a long time, so I stayed for a while."

The handsome young man took out a package of sealed snacks from his sleeve, and lightly touched the child's cheek: "The fairy cake I brought for you is hot, I didn't put it in the storage ring , grab what you brought back, eat it quickly. Don’t talk about me, I’m so young, I’m more verbose than anyone else.”

When Tingshu saw the pastry in his hand, even his eyes lit up, and he put it into his arms happily.

He carefully folded off a small piece of honey cake, tasted it, his eyes were also bent, and then quickly put it in his arms very preciously.He helped Ning Shiting into the house.

"My son is still the same as before, he likes to be lively, but he doesn't like to go out, and he doesn't want to come back when he goes out."

Listening to the book said, "But Mr. Xizhou is not familiar with you. You have never been here. Next time, you can take me with you. I am bored in the palace all day long, arranging the books for you. After arranging the books and the whole room, I will soon become moldy." gone."

Ning Shiting doted on him and said, "Okay."

The door of the study room was opened, and the wind penetrated into the window lattice, blowing the pages of the book on the table and turning them.

Ning Shiting saw at a glance that his desk had been moved, paused, and asked, "Who has been here?"

Only then did Ting Shu remember, and patted his head: "Oh, the prince came to you! He was still there when I came back to help you get the cloak just now, but just when you came back, he was gone. I asked, but The prince didn't even say what he came to see you for."

Ning Shiting looked back at the desk again.

His things were shuffled and pushed aside, leaving a half-turned miscellaneous collection.

That miscellaneous book was brought over by him from the army, and it accompanied him through most of the years of wind and snow on the border of Dongzhou. I have suffered from frostbite several times like this.

"Your Majesty came to see me for something. I'll wash up later. Listen to the book, pack this miscellaneous book, and pack it together with tomorrow's medicinal materials."

"Should this book also be given to the prince? The prince loves the prince more than me." Ting Shu muttered.

Ning Shiting took the book in his hand and patted the head listening to the book.

Listening to the book is good, and ran over to prepare it for him.

Ning Shiting changed into winter clothes after washing up, and went to Shizi Mansion with his things.

He had already heard that Gu Tingshuang went out uncharacteristically today, and even talked to the servants.

This is a good sign.

The memories of his previous life that often turned into dreams and came back to his mind at that time are still engraved on his heart like a brand.Ten years later, he didn't remember when Gu Tingshuang from his previous life came out.

Only one day suddenly, he saw the child driving the wheelchair, waiting for him by the door.The young man breathed silently, and a few snow-white pear blossom petals fell from his shoulders.

From then on, every time he went out and came back, he could see Gu Tingshuang waiting for him.Even though Gu Tingshuang didn't say anything, even though every time he asked him if he wanted to go out with him, he would refuse.

In the autumn night, it snowed heavily, and the crushed ginkgo and goose feather snow fell together, and soon covered the road in front of the court.

The courtyard door was closed, Ning Shiting got off the crane's back, and gently knocked on the door.

No one answered, he opened the door and walked in, and saw heavy snow in the yard.The mansion was lit with warm yellow lanterns and candles, but it was empty and there was no one there.

Ning Shiting walked in with an umbrella and stopped on the outdoor porch. Seeing that the little wolf was not like before, he came out wagging his tail to check when he smelled someone coming.

So he opened the door and went in, and said softly, "Yin Bing, I'm coming in."

Drinking ice is the word that the princess gave Gu Tingshuang.According to the custom, the son should be bestowed by the elders when he was an adult, and when the princess was seriously ill, she seemed to have foreseen what kind of years this son, who was not loved by his father, would spend after losing his spiritual root.

Still no one answered.

Ning Shiting pushed the door open and went in.

There are still traces of people here in the room, the candles are not extinguished, and there are some splashes of water on the inside and outside.Ning Shiting took a look, and knew that Gu Tingshuang was probably holding the basin with one hand and driving the wheelchair with the other when he was scrubbing himself, and he was walking unsteadily.

He didn't intend to enter Gu Tingshuang's inner room, knowing that the young man had his own privacy, so he just found a silk cloth to clean up the area in front of the door.But when he went to the door, he saw that the light was on in the inner room, but the bed was standing upright, and no one was sleeping on it.

He has good hearing and can tell that there is no one here.

Gu Tingshuang just came back from him not long ago, but there is no one in the house, where will he go now?

A cold wind blew in along the backyard door, knocking against the wooden door.

Ning Shiting noticed this sound in the heavy snow in the courtyard, left the room and walked outside, and saw the door of Shizi Mansion leading to the Lingshan Mountain behind, which was opened at some time.

The old iron gate was heavily rusted, and the seal was dilapidated.

Lingshan is a taboo place in Prince Qing's Mansion, where no one talks about it.

The aura of Xizhou is steady, and rare and exotic animals emerge in endlessly.The reason why immortals have the word "immortal" in their names is because they are born with the roots related to the five elements of heaven, earth, and the five elements of heaven and earth. It can be used by the people of the fairy world.

And the reason why "Spirit Mountain" got its name is because this fairy mountain is five hundred miles away, and there is a profound spiritual energy in every step.Plants and trees have consciousness, mountains, rivers, lakes and seas have consciousness, and even the stones under our feet, the wind and snow around us, and the sunlight shining in all have their own consciousness.

The heavens and the earth have been transformed, and no one has ever transformed them. All creatures in Lingshan do not distinguish between good and evil, and their behavior is impermanent.There have been people who entered Lingshan safely and soundly, and then came out intact, believing that they could pass through the spiritual energy of all people.

But when he entered the mountain for the second time, he disappeared there, and he couldn't even find his bones.

This is a very dangerous place.The reason why Prince Qing's Mansion was built at the foot of Lingshan Mountain was precisely because the first thing Gu Feiyin did after allocating Xizhou was to seal the entrance and exit of Lingshan Mountain.

Ning Shiting looked at the broken seal for a while, breathed into the palm of his hand, then walked over and moved the iron gate with great effort, and walked up the barren hillside ramp behind.

All the things he brought have been placed in Gu Tingshuang's room, and only an umbrella and a small hand stove that is about to go out are left beside him.

There is no exact boundary for Lingshan, because the whole mountain is unpredictable, and sometimes even the monument will be moved hundreds of miles out of thin air. No one can tell where this place begins and ends.

The further up he went, the deeper the snow, Ning Shiting looked at his feet and slowed down.

When they came to a slippery slope pushed by ice and snow, a half-hand-wide gap appeared in the middle.

Ning Shiting looked at it for a while, put down the umbrella in his hand and wanted to step over, but the moment he took a step, the entire gap suddenly widened to the height of a person!

With nothing under his feet, Ning Shiting rolled down the bottomless ramp without even making a sound.The slender and clear figure flew into the air together with the large pieces of crushed snow, and the bottom was covered with white snow that could not be seen to the bottom.

Consciousness is blank for a moment.

... so cold.

On the coast of the Merman, thousands of poisons were boiled and poured on the head, and then thrown into the gravel mixed with smooth sand.

There is a kind of extremely gorgeous scorpion in the gravel, the sting of the body is the most painful; when the scorpion sting is no longer painful, they send the snake in the shark sea.

The snake venom entered his body, his whole body was icy cold, even his heart seemed to be frozen, when he raised his eyes, he could only see the crushed snow on the bank of the Merman, like viburnum flowers flying catkins, dancing and changing scene after scene in front of his eyes.

Life goes by little by little.

Then, someone... picked him up and held his hand.

"Ning Shiting, are you cold?"

He trembled all over, opened his eyes, and heard these words.

"Are you cold?"

He fell on the crushed snow, and a small silver wolf was pressing on his chest, using its head and paws to push the fine snow away from him.The little wolf still wisely did not touch his exposed, pale skin from the cold.

Ning Shiting exhaled the cold air in his chest and encouraged him to stand up.

He was in the middle of a low snow pit, and when he raised his head, as far as he could see——

The edge of the pit is surrounded by pale wolf eyes like candles lit up in the dark night.

If you look at it suddenly, you will think that a circle of towering night fires has ignited around the snow pit.

Countless wolves, white wolves, were so huge that they could bite off the waists of five or six adults crowded together in one bite.The pack of wolves had cold eyes, and they all gathered around his head, looking at him with the eyes of sizing up their prey, with their tails raised high, ready to move.

The snow shone in Huaren's eyes, and under the moonlight, the wolves backed away, giving way to a young man driving a wheelchair.

Gu Tingshuang appeared outside the snow pit, looking down at him calmly from top to bottom.

The wolf closest to him let out a low growl, scratched the snow with its paws, and was about to pounce down, but at that moment, Gu Tingshuang called back in a cold voice: "Come back, this man is my prey, don't eat it!" he."

The huge white wolf gave Ning Shiting a reluctant look just now, and rushed back to Gu Tingshuang.

"What are you doing here?" he asked him.

Ning Shiting said: "Come to look for Shizi, the night is deep and snowy."

"I told you to stay out of your own business, Ning Shiting."

Gu Tingshuang looked at him.

The young shark's brows were soft, and under the moonlight, he looked paler and thinner than usual, perhaps even a little bit more embarrassed by falling down.Even at this time, he didn't seem to be angry at all, but just looked at him very gently.

The snow fell in his hair, and for a moment he couldn't tell which ones were his long silvery white and bluish hair and which ones were Qionghua Broken Jade.

That look...

Like a newborn wolf cub, looking at people with a pair of wet eyes.

Gu Tingshuang felt a little irritable for some reason.

He turned his eyes away and didn't look at him, but said coldly: "The snow elf and the goblin just wanted to play tricks on you, but they didn't intend to kill you. If that's the case, you would have closed the seams the moment you fell. , you were smashed to pieces, and the god Da Luo couldn't save it. It was the little wolf who found you."

Ning Shiting looked down at the little wolf, who wagged his tail asking him for credit.

He thought for a while, touched in his sleeve, and took out the remaining corner of the honey cake in the sleeve—it was the same bag that was given to Tingshu in the afternoon, he hid Tingshu and ate half of it, and gave the other half back He wants him to eat.

But his sense of taste has long been poisoned, and he can't taste the sweetness, so there are just two pieces left.

The little wolf took it in one gulp, got the snack, and rubbed against him wagging his head.Turning around again, a little wolf cub was grunting in its throat to attack the surrounding adult wolves who were staring at Ning Shiting, and the hair on its back also exploded.

The wolves retreated one by one.

From Ning Shiting's point of view, he quickly discovered that the pack of wolves around the snow pit seemed to be divided into two groups, one group stood by Gu Tingshuang's side, obeying his commands just like the little wolf; Then they continued to stare at each other, as if ready to move all the time, once they lost the restraint of Gu Tingshuang, they would immediately jump down into the snow pit and devour Ning Shiting alive.

To the wolves, Ning Shiting's mermaid might be like a cat and a raccoon bumping into a live fish.

Gu Tingshuang's eyes were black, as if a flame was slowly burning in his eyes, and he was full of energy.

This is the performance of using spiritual consciousness to control living beings.

The wolves all left, and the tense atmosphere gradually subsided.

Gu Tingshuang said: "Get up and go back."

He looked at Ning Shiting.

Ning Shiting nodded, patted the broken snow on his body and was about to stand up, but before he could take a step, he fell down again, almost kneeling on the ground.

He snorted, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead instantly.

He sprained his ankle when he fell.The merman's bones were originally soft and would not be easily broken or sprained, but the snow pit was too deep, and he was still twisted to the bones.Move a little, and the pain will hit.

"What's wrong?" Gu Tingshuang's eyes were sharp, even though Ning Shiting's frowning expression was quickly retracted, he could still see that he was injured somewhere, rather than just staggered because he didn't stand still.

But Ning Shiting shook his head and said, "It's okay, just twist it a little."

The snow pit was big and deep, but fortunately the slope was not too big, so he climbed up slowly.The little wolf followed him, seeing him lose his strength a few times, he grabbed Ning Shiting's sleeve with his mouth and tried to drag him up.

When Ning Shiting came up, his clothes were torn, his silver hair was disheveled, and he looked very embarrassed.

Gu Tingshuang seemed to be very happy to see him like this, and he was in a better mood, and the breath on his body today was different from the usual cold and gloomy look, but more gentle.There was a faint smile on the young man's lips, and his eyes followed him thoughtfully.

Ning Shiting was rarely embarrassed: "What are you laughing at?"

Gu Tingshuang said: "I laugh at you for being hypocritical and contrived. A sprain is a sprain. Why put on airs."

Ning Shiting was stunned for a moment, and just when he didn't know how to speak, his ankle was lightly touched - Gu Tingshuang picked up the long sword and touched his foot with the scabbard.

His movements were very light, but Ning Shiting shuddered from the pain, his face turned pale again, and suddenly he was a little shaky, almost unable to stand still.

Gu Tingshuang directly drove the wheelchair to him, pulled him by the waist and pulled him to his side. The action was simple and rough, and he pulled the man to his side by pulling his clothes.

It was a posture that almost sat on his lap.

Ning Shiting was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly struggled to get up.

But Gu Tingshuang pressed harder and harder, with a playful smile in his eyes: "Don't follow me in a wheelchair, or let the wolf carry you back."

The pack of wolves behind followed, a dozen or so wolves silently followed not far behind Gu Tingshuang, in a posture of silence, taming and defense.

This group of white wolves had rough skin and thick flesh, and their bright silver bristles exuded the unique fishy smell of wild beasts.The leading wolf carried a nine-color deer with half its body mutilated on its back, dripping blood all the way, staining half of the wolf's fur red.

Ning Shiting said, "Then let the wolf carry me..."

"I just refused to let you go. Just sit here and you." Gu Tingshuang smiled, her voice was still as cold as before.

He thought that Ning Shiting would become angry with embarrassment and get angry with him.

But the shark in front of him just lowered his eyes slightly, looked at him, then obediently put his hands into his sleeves, so as not to touch him, and tried his best to use his strength to sideways, trying not to press him down.

An is very obedient, soft and gentle.

His bones were extremely beautiful, with his long silver-white and bluish hair, and his skin that was always too pale, he looked like a snow spirit that fell out of thin air.

It was so late, he should have come here after taking a shower.

The fragrance on Ning Shiting's body was no longer as obvious as before, but turned into a hidden fragrance mixed with bath fragrance, which was warm and permeating.

He could smell it, there were angelica, cloves, aloes, green woods, jade flakes, peach blossoms, and stalactite powder.

At that moment, his consciousness drifted away, and he remembered the conversation he heard this afternoon-is Ning Shiting really going to the incense and will guess the incense?

He is so easy to bully, maybe he will be bullied to death by then.The current situation is an example.

He walked distractedly, clasped Ning Shiting's waist, his fingers were slightly stiff.

When he was motionless, it was as if he had nothing in his hand, but when he felt it carefully, he could feel the coolness of the shark's body temperature.

Two wolves pushed the wheelchair forward behind.

The wheelchair with two people sank slightly, fell into the snow, and creaked when it ran over the frost.

Ning Shiting asked, "Aren't they leaving?"

"Who?"

Gu Tingshuang asked casually.

"You drove these white wolves with your spiritual sense." Ning Shiting said.

He doesn't seem to be afraid of these evil wolves who are doing evil in the rumors of Xianzhou, and he is not surprised that he can do this.

"The pack of wolves has no master, and they bite each other. I only control a part of them. Do you really think that the group that was driven away just now is gone? Wolves are cunning, and they have been lying in ambush at the foot of the mountain."

When Gu Tingshuang mentioned this topic, although his voice didn't change much, flames lit up in his eyes.

It seems to be laughing at his ignorance, or waiting for his worship.

That is the unique pride of young people, and it is another way forward that he found to block everyone in the silent time without light.

Ning Shiting could still remember the phantasy of his previous life, after he left Prince Qing's mansion, the news came one by one.

——The son controlled the wolves of the Lingshan Mountain, and healed his legs with the help of the energy from the Lingshan Mountain.

——The son of the world can now use spiritual knowledge to control thousands of ghost armies, making the mountains and Fengshui obey orders, and there will be no disadvantages.

……

In those news, he could also imagine the appearance of the young man, just like now.Flame ignited in the eyes that were always gloomy and dim. When this child was younger, he should be the same as now, right?

When they got to the edge of the snowy slope going down the mountain, they saw the pack of wolves rushing out behind them, driving away a few shadows lurking in the darkness.

The sounds of biting, culling, and howling wolves came one after another, like a scene of purgatory.

"If you tell others what happened today, next time you will be torn to pieces by wolves in the snowy wilderness."

Gu Tingshuang looked straight ahead, expressionless.

"Okay." Ning Shiting said softly.

"If you let me go, I don't care about it today. Similarly, if there is a next time, the little wolf will bite your throat." Gu Tingshuang continued.

Ning Shiting let out a soft "ah".

Today he had something to go out, and he hadn't heard that he would come over beforehand.The boy had to wait for him, and he had reason to take his anger out on him.

The same is true of willfulness and arbitrariness.

He sighed with a smile and said, "You."

He still doesn't get angry with him, and his tone is very gentle, which is the tone for children.

Gu Tingshuang frowned, his tone made him a little uncomfortable, but he didn't say anything after all.

A soft and sticky thing was stuffed into the hand, and the tenderness could be felt even through the paper bag. The sweet aroma of honey juice mixed with the fragrance of lotus root powder came through, which greatly increased the appetite.

Ning Shiting said: "Before you find me next time, ask someone to bring a letter."

Gu Tingshuang looked down, and saw that the thing in the palm of his hand was covered with a little wrinkle, and it still carried the body temperature of the shark.

A piece of sugar cake.