Chapter 12 The Lantern
Chapter 12 The Lantern
The atmosphere was tense after a meal, and the battlefield was filled with gunpowder.After the dinner table, only Yun Duo could hum a little song and go to the kitchen to do the dishes.
Xiao Twelve followed and said anxiously: "Yun Duo, you are the one who has the most ideas in our family, and you don't want to think of a way!"
Yun Duo freed a wet hand, tapped his shoulder with his wrist and said, "My brother, thank you for your trust, but this matter is beyond my ability, and I can't help my sister."
"Aren't you in a hurry?"
"There's nothing to worry about." Yun Duo lowered his head and scratched at his nails.
"The bunny in your ex-dream, and the bunny in your ex-dream, don't worry?"
Yun Duo looked at the sky and thought for a while: "Oh, it seems that I'm in a bit of a hurry. I have to hurry up and write the framework of the novel."
"Ah? What novel framework? What are you going to write?"
"I plan to write a novel based on Mian Mian and my second brother. The black-bellied brother who is like a wolf and a tiger has gone through untold hardships and finally married a soft and cute little wife and younger brother. Love, lingering, but later, due to accidents and various misunderstandings, love and kill each other, inseparable. I have already thought about the title of the book, and it is called "White Rabbit and Wolf King". I have almost conceived the plot. It will be published in Xiaoqiushan Midnight News in a few years."
"Midnight News?" Little Twelve screamed out.
"Why are you so loud!"
"You don't want to go back to your old job again, do you? Did you forget that you wrote about Xiao Huangwen being imprisoned? Do you still dare to write? If you are imprisoned this time, our family will have no money to redeem you !"
"Oh, don't get excited first." Yun Duo said, "I don't dare to write too explicit, but you can play around."
"On the edge? So you mean you still want to write? Or write about Mianmian and Second Brother?" Xiao Twelve's eyes widened with excitement, and even his voice changed.
"Shhhhhh." Yun Duo put a finger on his lips and stomped his feet anxiously, "I told you not to be so loud! You are afraid that the second brother will not know if it is!"
Little Twelve was so angry that he didn't want to pay attention to Yun Duo any more, and walked out of the kitchen.He pointed back at Yun Duo and said, "See if Second Brother will beat you to death!"
Yun Duo didn't mind at all: "Even if he broke my leg, I still have to write it. I have a hunch that this story will definitely become popular."
Little Twelve had already left, but he came back and said, "Let's have your Spring and Autumn Dream!"
Yun Duo threw a rag over, and Xiao Shier ran away immediately.
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There is a cool breeze in Beishan at night.The top of the mountain is hidden in the dark night, and there are continuous lights from the mountainside to the foot of the mountain.The enchanted lanterns are all floating in the air, which is really beautiful.Some are like swimming goldfish, some are like marionettes, and some are like fierce beasts. They are all huge and eye-catching, attracting monsters to come up the mountain in twos and threes.
The street is not too crowded, although there are not many goblins, but it is not as lively and crowded as imagined.Mianmian bit her candied haws and walked slowly, then turned her head and said to Yun Zhan next to her, "It was even more lively in the past few days. Today is the last day, and many goblin stall owners from outlying mountains have packed their things and gone home."
Coincidentally passing by a mask stand, Yun Zhan stepped forward and took a fox mask.
Mianmian was looking around curiously, when she suddenly heard "Mianmian", she just turned her head and was put on a mask.He saw the second brother smiling through the two round holes.
The second brother said it was cute, turned around and paid for it, saying that he would buy it as a souvenir for Mianmian.
Mianmian took off the mask, looked at it curiously, touched it, and put it on her forehead obliquely.
The second brother led the "little fox" to walk in the sea of fairies, wandering aimlessly.As usual, Mianmian still stumbles a bit when she walks, and can't keep up with her second brother at every turn, as clumsy as a little quail.
Yun Zhan took the oil paper bag containing fried chestnuts with sugar, and bit it all the way, and took one from Yun Zhan's hand after eating.Yun Zhan also bought a few pieces of white sugar, which was fragrant and sweet, but a bit sticky to the rabbit's teeth.
Yun Zhan himself doesn't have much desire for food, and his long-term cultivation in Penglai Mountain has made him particularly ascetic.He knew that his seven emotions and six desires were all indifferent, whether it was appetite or emotion, they were all as light as running water, maybe a little ruthless.But every time he sees Mianmian eating, he feels happy.
This little thing might have been his little lover in the previous life, otherwise how could he be so fond of him.
Mianmian was bumped by the goblin who passed by, and nearly fell down.When Yun Zhan clenched his hand again, he changed the way of holding it, interlocking his fingers.
Mian Mian has never been held like this before, and the second brother would not hold him like this before.He felt that something was different, but he couldn't tell what was different.
When he was in a daze, he heard his second brother say: "You two went shopping together on this street that day, and then what did you do?"
Mianmian thought for a while and said, "I accidentally twisted my foot when I went down the steps on the other side of the bridge. Tan Min asked me to sit on a rock, he rubbed it for me, and cast a spell to heal it."
After hearing this, Yun Zhan led him to find a bridge.
The bridge that Mian Mian mentioned is already at the edge of the bustle, connecting the forest trails, relatively secluded, and occasionally monsters pass by.
Yun Zhan asked, "Why did you think of going to the bridge?"
"I've never been to the other side of that bridge, and I want to see it," Mianmian said.
Yun Zhan led Mianmian across the bridge, and followed him to the stone where he sat that day.Mianmian sat down, lifted up her trouser legs and showed him the scene at that time.
"Tan Min squatted on the ground and rubbed my ankle for me."
Yun Zhan lifted the hem of the silver embroidered dress, knocked on one knee, and gently held that shiny white ankle.Mianmian didn't expect her second brother to do this, she stared at him blankly.
He symbolically rubbed it twice, and asked with drooping eyelashes, "And then."
"Tan Min started reciting spells and casting spells."
"Why not cast spells directly?"
"Huh?" Mian Mian looked at him confusedly.
"It's okay, you can continue." Yun Zhan said.
Yun Zhan thought to himself, what a bastard, he can cast spells directly, so he insisted on rubbing it a few times first.Isn't this a deliberate attempt to take advantage?
Mianmian recalled: "After he finished casting the spell, he held my hand and looked into my eyes."
"Is that so?" Yun Zhan held Mianmian's two hands, and looked up at him suddenly.
Yun Zhan originally had sword eyebrows and star eyes, and his whole body was heroic.His eyes were calm and calm, but he looked at Mianmian a little at a loss.
Mianmian nodded nervously.
"and then?"
"Tan Min said that he likes me and wants to take care of me for the rest of his life." Mianmian said, "I don't know why. When he said this, my heart beat so hard for no reason that it hurt. Then Tan Min Slowly approaching me."
"Like this?" Yun Zhan grabbed Mianmian's wrist and leaned forward.
Mianmian nodded.
"Did he kiss you?" Yun Zhan caressed the corner of his mouth, which was stained with sugar, with a murderous look in his calm tone.
Mian Mian shook her head: "No, I don't want it. And I felt that my whole body was bound by something, I couldn't move, it was very uncomfortable. I struggled a lot to break free. But Tan Min told me that this is the heartbeat. , It’s the heartbeat that makes me so uncomfortable.”
Yun Zhan looked at Mianmian for a long time.
Mianmian can almost see herself in Yun Zhan's eyes, only herself, this feeling is completely different from when Tan Min was together.The hustle and bustle not far away seemed to subside, and he felt a little ringing in his ears, and a little dizzy, and that kind of numbness wrapped around his limbs and bones again.
Yun Zhan lowered his eyes, and his gaze fell on his ruddy lips.The fingers holding his soft wrist turned slightly, caressing the warm texture of the back of his hand.He held Mianmian's face with the other hand, slowly leaned forward and moved closer, and closed his eyes.
When the lips were about to touch, Mianmian closed her eyes in pain, and tightly grasped the shirt on her chest.
Yun Zhan asked in a panic, "What's wrong with you?"
Mian Mian blushed, her whole body trembling slightly.He said angrily, "I'm so uncomfortable."
He was like a fish that had accidentally landed on the shore, clutching his clothes, exhaling heavily.Her cheeks were as red as apples planted by Nanshan raccoon grandma, her eyes were bright, reflecting the dim light of lanterns.
Yun Zhan held his hand: "If you feel uncomfortable, tell the second brother."
"My heart is so uncomfortable." Mianmian said, "Second brother, my heart beats so painfully."
Mian Mian put her hand on her heart, bit her lip in bewilderment, suddenly clenched her hands into a fist, and punched her heart, once and again.
Yun Zhan watched him quietly, then suddenly reached out to take off the soft little fox mask and put it on for him.He pressed down his soft neck and kissed the mask.Mianmian's whole body was limp, with tears in her eyes, she let him hug her.
Yun Zhan sighed and said, "My Mianmian..."
Mianmian said "hmm" in a ignorant manner.
"Are you willing to marry the second brother?"
Mianmian thought for a while, then nodded: "Yeah."
……
In the middle of the night, there was a drizzle in the mountains. When Yun Zhan and Mian Mian returned home, they were soaked in rain and felt a bit cold.
For the first time, Yun Duo, who has devoted herself to writing, put down her pen, boiled hot water for them graciously, and urged them to go back to the house to take a bath.
...Of course not to please the second brother to make up for his mistakes hahahahahaha.
The bathtub is not too big to fit the two of them, so Yun Zhan simply asked Mianmian to wash first.
The time Yun Zhan turned his head, Mianmian had already burrowed into the basin naked.It was hot and hazy.Stretching out her snow-white arms, her fingers penetrated into the back of her neck, trying to separate her half-damp hair from her neck.Yun Zhan went straight over and pulled his loose long hair out of the water basin.
Yun Zhan thought very seriously, their parents, except for a beautiful appearance and a gentle personality, left nothing for this little rabbit. They were neither smart nor strong and courageous. I couldn't be happier.
After the little rabbit took a bath, he changed into clean dirty clothes. When he picked up the coat and was about to put it on, Yun Zhan hung a pendant around his neck.
Yun Zhan patiently tied a thin knot on the back of his neck.Mian Mian picked up the crystal pendant emitting a faint stream of light, and asked curiously: "Brother, what is this?"
Yun Zhan said: "This is the crumb of the star. I asked for it from Nan Shanzi and made it into a pendant. I will give it to you as a coming-of-age gift."
"It looks good." Mianmian said playfully.
Yun Zhan pulled out a few strands of fine hair that were entangled in the string, lowered his head, leaned close to the small earlobe that was white and powdery, and said, "Second brother is waiting for you to grow up."
Yun Zhan's voice was low and deep, and his face was blushing and his heart was beating inexplicably.
Yun Zhan put on his clothes and said, "Go out, the second brother is taking a bath."
Mian Mian obediently walked out of the room, and was dragged by Yun Duo just as the door was closed.Yun Duo mysteriously asked him what happened tonight.Mianmian said it honestly, almost answering every question.
After Yun Duo listened to the story told by Mian Mian, she almost went crazy, what kind of beautiful love is this, she was about to cry.
Yun Duo panicked and took out the brush and notebook, and asked expectantly, "Did the second brother finally kiss you?"
Mianmian shook her head: "Second brother kissed the little fox."
"It's too miserable." Yun Duo frowned and shook his head, "Oh, second brother, this is too miserable."
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