Lanshan Snow

The snow layer and rotten leaves were stepped on, making a light and thin rustling sound.

The young man still pressed his face against the tree trunk, his eyelashes dyed pale gold by the sun slightly raised, and his pupils had an obsidian-like luster.Wizard Thule approached him slowly, step by step, as carefully as a hunter and a deer meet unexpectedly in the forest.The eyes of the deer are very clear, and it quietly watches the strange visitor.

As long as there is a hint of malice, it will run away immediately.

step.

two steps.

……

The beautiful deer did not escape.

Hunters caught it.

The broad-knuckle hands covered the slender-knuckle hands. The Thule wizard stood behind the young man, put his ear to the tree trunk, and listened to life with him.

...Pine needles collide with pine needles, scales knock against scales, branches rub against branches, and the wind blows from the first leaf at the top to the bottom branch.The snow pushes, pushes, and slides along the iron-black bark... The sun turns its angle and kisses every cracked wood grain of the old tree...

... the dark roots, down, down, breaking through the frozen ground, breaking through the rocks.

...the ancient river, the lightless underground.

……life.

Bottom up, top down.

turbulence.

"They are singing." The young man was almost raving, "The wind is singing, the snow is singing, the trees are singing..."

His pupils showed golden bright lines along the edges of pine needles, and his fair face showed a beauty between innocence and divinity.He is like a child who has always been childish and ignorant. In the quiet forest, he quietly shared with others for the first time what the world looks like in his eyes.

If he put his thoughts into words one by one, it would definitely become the biggest joke in Dongzhou.

Wizard Thule didn't laugh.

He separated Qiu Bodeng's fingers, let him intertwine with himself one by one, and pressed them together on the tree trunk.Under the hunting suit, the scriptures on the wizard's spine awaken the scriptures on the young man's skin. The ancient scriptures circulate, awakening mysterious power... Qiu Bodeng's pupils suddenly dilated.

——Calm, jumping, joyful, patient...

The overwhelming flood flooded the boy's thoughts.

The pulse of life of all the trees passed through the fingertips of the Thule wizard, continuously, and passed on to the young master in Zhongyuan.A tree is a guardian with different temperaments.They communicate with their own unique language, the vibration frequency of the leaves, the spreading direction of the branches, and the different breaths released...

Those who like squirrels, those who like birds, those who like leopards...

For a moment.

He and another person turned into two trees growing together,

The world is disorganized, crumbling, disintegrating.

Roots grow from their feet, leaves grow from their fingertips; they have birds on their shoulders, and snow on their heads; they embrace the sky upward and kiss the earth downward.The winds of the four seasons, the sun and the moon all the year round, grow and grow, until they are finally intertwined and crash down.

It's so real.

It was true that Wizard Thule ended this strange synaesthesia, pulled up the Qiubo lamp and walked in, but he was still in a daze, not knowing how to take his steps.

——The tree won't move!

"...Alo, Aluo." Qiu Bodeng pulled him anxiously, "We can't leave, they will fly back to build their nests next year! Al called and asked us to keep the most beautiful fork for him on."

Al.

Wizard Tule froze for a moment.

Immediately, he realized that what Arlan was talking about should be those white-cheeked black sparrows, and they sounded like someone shouting "Al, Al, Al-yo".

After reacting, Wizard Thule's silver-gray eyes were suddenly as gentle as a sky lake under the moon.

——Even the people of Thule, who have lived in the Holy Snow Mountain for generations, may not be able to clearly perceive the natural image when the shaman uses synaesthesia.

"Al they are back."

Wizard Thule leaned over and gently put his arms around Arlan, guiding him to look.

"Their nests are there."

Qiu Bodeng followed the direction he pointed.

I saw a solid bird's nest built on a beautiful high tree branch.There are two white-cheeked black sparrows inside, you peck me, I peck you, combing each other's down feathers.

He relaxed and his voice was light.

"Ah...bring back my companion."

--every tree remembers the birds that roost in their branches.

I remember that Qiu Bodeng of all the birds rested her beautiful jaw on the arm of the Tule wizard, watching the pair of playful white-cheeked black sparrows, their slender fingers unconsciously grabbed the man's sleeve.Wizard Thule lowered his head and looked at him quietly, watching him breathe out a small cloud of white mist.

"Will they fly back next year?"

"meeting."

"That's great." Qiu Bodeng couldn't take his eyes off, "Why can't a person be like a tree?"

His last words were barely audible.

But the Thule wizard heard.

Wizard Thule stroked his cheek affectionately, and reached out to the rowdy newlyweds.They fluttered down and fell into the wizard's hands—they didn't seem to be afraid of him at all, obviously he was a tall, stern human being.

The wizard handed the fluffy bird to Qiu Bodeng.

Qiu Bodeng carefully stretched out his hand and held them.

"Al! Al!"

The young couple who had just built a nest were squeezed into his hands, the fluff on their chests was round.

Qiu Bodeng showed a smile.

- He really looks good when he smiles.

Wizard Thule stared at Qiu Bodeng's shallow dimples, but rarely smiled at him.

Rubbing the two little birds that are not afraid of people with his fingertips, Qiu Bodeng reluctantly presented them to Wizard Thule.As soon as the Thule wizard raised his hand, they fluttered to the newly cast nest again.

The Thule wizard lowered his hands.

Suddenly stopped in place.

Qiu Bodeng took two steps forward, found that the person hadn't followed, turned his head, and asked in surprise, "What's wrong? Did you go wrong?"

Wizard Thule did not speak, lowered his eyes, on his wrist, a few slender fingers were placed on the cuffs of the dark hunting jacket, and the knuckles were slightly pink due to the cold.

——For the first time, the boy took the initiative to hold him.

Following Wizard Thule's line of sight, Qiu Bodeng quickly noticed the abnormality.

He froze for a moment.

In the next second, Qiu Bodeng quickly let go of his fingers as if being scalded by a fire, turned around quickly, and walked forward with his head buried.I don't know how many times I have done the most excessive and shameful thing.Inexplicably at this moment, his cheeks were surprisingly hot, and no matter how the cold wind blew, he couldn't get rid of it.

—what a surprise!

The young master was about to become angry from embarrassment.

It's not that he did it on purpose... It's all because of the synaesthesia just now, he thought he was still a tree...

The rustling sound of stepping on the snow caught up.

"Why did you pick two trees whose roots are intertwined?! Did you do it on purpose?" The young master buried his head in anger and preempted the attack with a vicious voice.

Anyway, I would rather die than admit that I took the initiative to pull it just now.

Wizard Thule laughed.

He smiled lightly, but the young master is now sensitive to even the slightest sign of trouble, so he immediately caught it.

Immediately, Qiu Bodeng became even more angry. If his cheeks were not so hot, he would have jumped on him and bit him hard to vent his anger.

He wrote down an account angrily, bowed his head and ignored people.

He didn't want to be held back.

The Thule wizard didn't force him at this time, he just walked by, and reached out to support him when he almost slipped and fell several times.Harvey Balin Sea has existed for tens of thousands of years, thick snow and rotting leaves piled up, large and small, and half-hidden and scattered roots.

From the surface, it looks like a flat snow field, but when you step down, it is actually several twisted tree roots.

If you don't pay attention, you will be stumped.

I don't know how many times, after being held back by the Thule wizard, Qiu Bodeng also felt that his act of anger was not worth the candle.But if he asked someone to lead him away, he couldn't hold back his face, and stood there sullenly, refusing to go any further inside.

Wizard Thule thought he was really knocked, so he took a step closer to him, and knelt down to check him.

Qiu Bodeng lightly kicked him.

When he looked up, Qiu Bodeng turned his face away, and his eyes fell into the depths of the forest.The sun is gradually sinking, and the forest is gradually dimming, leaving only the cold reflection of the white snow, which is hazy.

Wizard Thule could only see the outline of his side face, but couldn't see the expression in his eyes clearly.

"Do you want a wooden kite?" Qiu Bodeng still looked at Yuanxue in the forest, "It's hard to defeat those people on the ground. You have to drive a better wooden kite than them."

Qiu Bodeng's voice was unusually calm.

Quiet and light.

"I know how to make it."

The fingers on the boots paused.

"Those wooden kites are nothing," he said. "They can only be called kites. The real wooden birds are goshawks and falcons. I can make you and Thule the highest and fastest flying bird in the world." Wooden bird. The Qiu family in Dongzhou is located in Fufeng, and Fufeng is called a bird. No one knows the wind better than the Qiu family, and no one understands the birds better than the Qiu family."

"You only need to use the trees of the sacred forest, and you can have a wooden bird that can defeat everyone."

He finally turned his head and looked into Wizard Thule's eyes.

"Do you want it?"

Wizard Thule got up and brushed the snow off his shoulders.

"Do not."

"But you have to guard the snowy area. Hundreds of wooden birds will fly here in the future. Without the help of the wooden birds, you won't be able to hold it." Qiu Bodeng stood in the snow, eyelashes lowered, "Sacred Forest The trees are all the ancestors of Thule, they would not like to see their descendants injured, bleed, and die. They would not like to see Xueyu fall."

Wizard Thule shook his head.

"You don't need many, just one."

Wizard Thule put his finger on his lips to stop him from speaking.

Qiu Bodeng raised his head, while he lowered his head.

The snow fell on their shoulders, on their hair, and the ancient Harvey Balin Sea was eerily quiet, and the white moon slowly rose from the dark green edge.The silvery moonlight showed the pine needles, the oak, and the young Thule wizard.Qiu Bodeng stared into his eyes for a long time, trying to find the slightest hesitation and hesitation in the silver gray.

No.

clean.

Like snow, like Tianhu.

"We will guard the gates of the Snowlands," said the Chief Witch of Thule, "without wooden birds."

"A lot of people will die, what should I do?"

Qiu Bodeng looked away and looked down at the white snow on the ground. His eyelashes were thick and thick, and when they were down, no one could clearly see the emotion in his eyes.

Wizard Thule put a piece of snow in his palm.

Qiu Bodeng understood what he meant: Tule believes that after death, the soul will fall to the earth, and when the sun rises, it will evaporate with the snow, and finally fall to the earth with the snow again.

"I'll keep it, don't be afraid."

Qiu Bodeng didn't answer.

He wrapped his arms around Wizard Thule's neck, stood on tiptoe, and gently covered the man's thin and cold lips.