The big brother only wears makeup to the mirror

Chapter 28 Like in the middle of the water

Lin Jian and Ah Er searched around in Taohua Town. They asked several families, but none of them had heard of Ye Qiuyue.

The two of them were tired from walking, so they found a place to sit down.

After a short rest, Lin Jian finally understood why the singing could be heard throughout the town.

It turned out that there were two singers who were performing arts along the town.In fact, they sang various songs, but one of them, Jian Jia, had a high repetition rate, so those who didn't listen carefully would feel that they were singing a song all the time.

Seeing Lin Jian staring at him, the girl with the pipa smiled and nodded to him.

Seeing this, Lin immediately turned his head away.

"Shy?" Ah Er nudged Lin Jian lightly with his elbow.

"No, I'm afraid she will misunderstand that I want to order a song and ask me to pay for it." Ah Er still doesn't know Lin Jian well.

When Ah Er heard this, he felt like a gnat in his throat.

Lin Jian was very calm.

He has less sympathy than ordinary people, and that's because he doesn't have the leeway to sympathize with others.They are also vulnerable people who are not easy to survive. Lin Jian knows that according to his own situation, when he feels pitiful for others, it is the moment when he is in danger.

Lin Jian felt sorry for others last time.

It was several days ago, at the gate of the village in my hometown.

He saw a young man dressed luxuriously and unparalleled in style.He stood next to the stool of the tea stand, with a look of bewilderment and aggrieved.

So pitiful.

As soon as this thought flashed by, he smiled silently in the dark.

Then steal his purse and make him more pitiful.

The moment the idea was born, Lin Jian never thought that the person who would become more and more pitiful would be himself.

Although the situation is very different, but the example in front of him tells Lin Jian that people like him should not feel compassionately.

After the two rested, they continued to look for someone.

On the way, Ah Er suddenly felt uneasy and said, "If senior brother finds out that I have taken you away, will he be angry?"

"He Changsheng is always angry, his hair is knotted, angry when he is close to him, angry when he doesn't sleep well, since he is always angry, what's the point of being angry for a while?" Lin Jian didn't care.

"Hiss." Seems to make sense

"Any more questions?" Lin Jian looked up at him.

Seeing the child who is so much shorter than himself, Ah Er hesitated for a long time, and then decided to express his concerns: "Also, I think, if Qinglan really likes that Hu Ling, I will help that Hu Ling find the one he likes. People, didn't they unintentionally destroy Qinglan's hope?"

"Don't you like Qinglan?" Lin Jian was surprised.

"I didn't..." Ah Er is used to wanting to deny it, but thinking that Lin Jian is not familiar with their inner circle, and he is really depressed these days, so he closed his mouth, and when he opened it again, he was a lot more honest , "I don't know if it's love, but we've been together for too long. When I think that she will leave me and have another close person, I feel depressed, angry and wronged."

Lin Jian couldn't help laughing, he didn't expect Ah Er to answer himself so honestly.

"Don't laugh at me."

He also said that monsters are innocent, and Lin Jian felt that the people in Fuxi Courtyard were also surprisingly innocent.

Lin Jian looked at Ah Er with a smile, and said, "There's nothing funny. If you like something, you can only prove your love if you get it by any means."

Ah Er looked at Lin Jian in shock, the kid just calmly said something terrifying!

"That's the reason." Lin Jian smiled heartily and patted him, "Plus, you and I came to find Ye Qiuyue to save me, not to break up Qinglan and Baishuang."

Ah Er woke up, it seems that such a thing happened.

very strange!

Ah Er covered his cheeks in horror.

But why when talking to this child, it reminded him of the feeling when he was tricked by Hajime.The difference is that Ah Yi also likes to jump out and tell them that everything was calculated by him, and you were fooled.And this kid swallowed all his doubts without making a sound.

"Do you have any questions?" Lin Jian showed an innocent face.

Do you still have questions?I fooled you until there was no problem.

Ah Er thought of Ah Yi, and suddenly understood the potential meaning of Lin Jian's words according to Ah Yi's thinking.

"No more." Ah Er felt that he should think alone.

This town is obviously not big, but they have asked many people, but no one knows about Ye Qiuyue.

The two of them felt strange, no matter how weak and sick they were and couldn't go out, it wouldn't mean that not many people knew about this person's existence, right?

The two stood dejectedly at the door of a big house.

"Hello!" came a loud voice.

Startled, the two looked back.

An old man stood behind them, approached them, and called them loudly.

"Are you looking for Ye Qiuyue?" The well-dressed old woman asked them, "That Ye Qiuyue who is not in good health?"

"Yes." The two breathed a sigh of relief, and finally someone knew this person, "Where is her home?"

"I know where her home is? But what are you two looking for?" The old woman looked at the two of them and muttered, "You are so young."

According to his actual age, Ah Er felt that he was not a few years younger than the person in front of him, but since he lived in Fuxi Courtyard, age was no longer important.

"We..." Lin Jian couldn't say that they came to help Hu Ling spread the word, so he made up a lie, "We are her friends..."

"Really?" The old woman narrowed her eyes and looked at Lin Jian.

Oops.

Lin Jian thought that he seemed to have said something wrong.

"Actually, we are here to help people spread the word." Lin Jian finally told the truth.

"Impossible." The old woman waved her hand.

"Why?" Lin Jian asked.

"Ye Qiuyue would have passed away a long time ago, if the Ye Qiuyue you are talking about is the Ye Qiuyue I know." When the old grandma said this, her old eyes were full of sadness.

"Ah." Ah Er was obviously frightened.

"I'm her younger sister." She continued, her bent back seemed to be unable to admit the weight even more, "Ye Qiuyue has been dead for more than 30 years. Who are you helping spread the word?"

Lin Jian and Ah Er were frightened and took a step back.

Extraordinary beings have no concept of time.

Hu Ling is waiting for the girl, see you tomorrow at Shenshi, waiting for the promise of this sentence.

Waiting every day.

He didn't know how long he had been waiting, but he only knew that she didn't come today, yesterday, or the day before yesterday.

But maybe she will come tomorrow.

Hu Ling arrives as scheduled every day.

He doesn't know the difference between one year and ten years, he can only distinguish between Shenshi and Youshi.

And before I knew it, more than 30 years had passed.

"My family has made some snacks, come in and sit down, let's talk while eating." The old woman leaned on a cane and walked unsteadily towards the mansion behind her.

Lin Jian and Ah Er exchanged glances, then followed.

The old man was very kind, asked them to sit down, and brought out something for them to eat.

"When I get old, I get tired after walking a little far, and I can't stand at the door and chat with you." She said, "I never thought that after so many years, after my parents passed away and the people around me gradually disappeared, I would still I can hear my sister's name. You said to help spread the word, what's going on?"

"You may not believe it." Lin Jian was depressed while eating the cake, "It is true that someone asked me to send a message to Ye Qiuyue. That person doesn't seem to know that Ye Qiuyue is dead..."

Now he doesn't know what to do.

Things in the past are like people separated by a layer of fog, as if they are in the nearest place, but they can't see clearly, and they can't even grasp.

The old man tried hard to remember, and then, tears quickly appeared in her dry eyes.

"Use this." Lin Jian hurriedly took out one of the many handkerchiefs that He Changsheng stuffed for him.

The grandma took the handkerchief and wiped away her tears after thanking her.

"I think I have a clue." Gradually, the old woman recalled some things.

When she was young, her sister was in poor health and was basically not allowed to go out.As for himself, he would run out to play as soon as he finished his classes in the private school.Once, she was worried about her sister who was at home, so instead of going to play with her friends, she went straight home, only to see her sister crawl out of a hole in the wall.

She was naturally worried and followed immediately.

Until I followed to the lake, I never saw her sister again.

Just when she panicked, shouted her sister's name, and ran around, she met a man standing by the lake.

"She has already gone home, and you can go back too." He looked at the flute in his hand tenderly, with picturesque eyes.

She froze for a moment, then ran home immediately.

Sure enough, my sister came home, and pretended that she hadn't been out.

What exactly is going on?where did you go?What have you done?

She had a lot of questions, but finally said nothing.Because of my sister, whenever I go out and come back, I will become very happy.

Ye Qiuyue has been sick since she was a teenager, and one day when she was in her 20s, she couldn't get out of bed at all.Although she often wanted to leave, she couldn't get very far.

"Then, one day, my sister asked me to go to the lake when I applied for the time, and told me to find a person waiting there, and told him that she couldn't make the appointment, and told him not to wait any longer. After I went, I didn’t see anyone. I waited for a long time and yelled at the lake to tell him not to wait. Unfortunately, no one showed up, and I probably didn’t hear me. I have been there several times later, but every time I have never seen anyone there. I was thinking, maybe that person left this place first. My sister asked me to go again and again, and she felt that the person waiting for her must still be there. Later, my sister I was so ill that I had no choice but to lie to her."

she says.

That person has heard what you have to say, he made it clear, and hopes that you will take good care of your health, and maybe they can meet again someday.

Ye Qiuyue finally felt relieved.

"There is no such a day." She said with a smile, her eyes filled with tears.

She looked at her sister who looked like that, and for some reason, she couldn't stop crying.

Just like it is now.

She felt her grief.

A few years later, one day, Ye Qiuyue suddenly asked her family to move her out to bask in the sun.

She died in the warm sunlight.

"Really? Is he still waiting for his sister?" The old man was too old, and she had no choice but to go to the lake again and tell the waiting people that there was no need to wait any longer.

Ah Er's tears were extremely low. After listening, he lowered his head, trying to suppress his sadness.

"Come with me." The old man staggered and walked forward slowly.

Lin Jian and Ah Er immediately followed.

Although she is old, she still remembers things clearly.

"Child, go and move a stool and take the box on the cabinet to me." She asked Lin to meet.

Lin Jian did as he did, and he took down a dusty box.

"Can it still be opened?" the old man asked again.

Lin Jian tried it, and he tried hard several times before opening the box.

Inside the box, there is a peach blossom hairpin.No one has touched it for too many years, but it is still well preserved.

"Give this hairpin to that person, and then tell him that you don't have to wait any longer." She sat on the stool tiredly, looking at the hairpin, "I'm old, and I can't go any further."

The task was completed, and the old man sent them out.

"Is this okay?" Lin Jian asked Ah Er.

Ah Er sighed.

Even if it doesn't work, there is no other way, the man has passed away, and the fragrance has disappeared.

"Let's talk." Lin Jian looked at Ah Er worriedly, "Are you going to cry?"

"I... didn't want to cry..." Ah Er was holding back.

"That's good……"

Lin Jian and Ah Er went back to the inn.

In order to avoid He Changsheng's anger, Lin didn't dare to go back when he saw a room.He stayed in the yard, and when he was thinking about applying for a room to sleep in, Qinglan ran out.

That's right, it's the Qing Lan who basically never communicated with Lin Jian.

She anxiously asked Lin Jian: "Did you go out with Ah Er this evening?"

Lin Jian nodded.

"What happened to you? Why does he always look like he wants to cry?"

"Will it be?" Lin Jian felt that when Ah Er returned to the inn, he was much more normal.

"Oh." Qing Lan ran away with a headache on her face.

After a while, Qing Lan's voice came from the direction of Ah Er's room.

"Er Xinsu, if you don't tell me what happened to you, don't tell me."

Ah Er, who was viciously called out by his full name, flung himself into Qinglan's arms with a straight face.

Qinglan took it for granted, holding his head and stroking his hair.

"Qinglan, sometimes the living can't defeat the dead." He wanted to cry, not only because of that tragic story, but also because of Qinglan who fell in love with Bai Shuang but could never win against Ye Qiuyue.

"If you keep talking nonsense, you will die." Qing Lan gritted her teeth.

Lin Jian saw this scene, left quietly, and then thought.

"What are you thinking?" A cold voice asked him.

"I think there's something else hidden..." Lin Jian analyzed calmly.

"Really? Then you'd better explain it to me."

After hearing clearly who the owner of the voice was, Lin saw that he ran away.

The folding fan had already picked up Lin Jian's back collar, and when he ran away, He Changsheng easily dragged him back.

"I've made up my mind, I'll say goodbye to you today! I wish you smooth enrollment!" Lin Jian tried to run away for the second time.

"What are you afraid of?" He Changsheng asked.

"I'm afraid you will be angry." Lin Jian replied honestly.

"Didn't you say that I'm always angry, so there's nothing to be afraid of when I'm angry?"

"That's true." Lin Jian agreed first, then froze, and finally got goosebumps all over his body, "How do you know?"

He Changsheng retracted his fan, spread it to cover his face and smiled.

While He Changsheng retracted his fan, Lin Jian ran away again.

This time, He Changsheng was unprepared and let him run away.

Lin Jian ran out of the inn, and when he was hesitating in which direction to go, a gust of wind blew up, and a beautiful white figure descended from the sky and came in front of him.Holding a fan, He Changsheng stood under the moonlight lightly, smiling sweetly.

Lin Jian finally understood why those people were about to kneel when they saw He Changsheng, and felt that if they didn't kneel, they would die.

"How do you know about the conversation between me and Ah Er?" Lin Jian asked him this question first, to see if he had the possibility of changing the offensive.

"When Ah Er went to touch you, I could feel what you guys did." He Changsheng snorted, "Especially when Ah Yi helped you untie the shackles of the language spirit, my spell was undone, you think Will I be unconscious? Then I saw you go out together, so I asked this little guy to follow and see the situation."

A paper figurine emerged from behind He Changsheng's fan.

If Ah Er could be a little more cautious, he would have discovered that during the whole process of their going out, Lin Jian had a piece of paper sticking to his back collar.

The paper figurine jumped from the fan to He Changsheng's shoulder, then put his hand over his ear to cover his mouth, and moved closer to He Changsheng, as if talking about something.

"Yeah, so that's how it is." He Changsheng understood.

Lin Jian pricked up his ears, but he couldn't hear what the paper figurine was saying.

"Okay, let me spare you." He Changsheng said.

Lin Jian looked at He Changsheng warily.

"What kind of eyes do you have?" He Changsheng slowly put away his fan, exposing his face to the moonlight.

"It seems to see the expression of winter thunder shaking summer rain and snow, and the mountains have no edges and the sky and the earth are in harmony." Lin Jian told the truth.

"You said you haven't read the book, but you always speak in a polite manner sometimes."

"My father taught me that if you want to appear educated, you don't need to know too much, you just need to insert what you know into the chat at the right time."

"Forget it." He Changsheng was too lazy to pursue, "When you go to find Hu Ling tomorrow, I will go with you."

"What exactly are you trying to do?" Lin Jian felt even more suspicious.

He Changsheng said, "Just relax."

Lin Jian's heart was not wide enough to bear He Changsheng's generosity.

When sleeping at night, Lin Jian tossed and turned.

"Go out if you don't sleep..." He Changsheng was woken up by him.

Lin Jian didn't dare to move.

The next day, when Lin Jian went downstairs early in the morning, he happened to hear Qing Lan and Ah Yi chatting.

"Let's go back to the courtyard with the new disciples we can take away." Qing Lan said.

"Oh, don't you still want to leave?" Ah Yi smiled.

"Forget it." Qing Lan sighed softly, "I'll go again today..."

Not only did she have to go again, Lin Jian and He Changsheng also needed to go again.

"The reeds are green, and the white dew is frost. The so-called Iraqis are on the side of the water. If you follow it backwards, the road is long and obstructed. If you follow it backwards, you will be in the middle of the water."

The sweetheart I miss is on the other side of the water. I go upstream to pursue her. The road is long and difficult.

The surface of the lake is shining brightly under the summer sun, Bai Shuang recites the poem, and understands its meaning more and more.

"I'm here." Lin Jian spoke and reminded Bai Shuang.

Hu Ling, who was sitting on the shore, turned her head and smiled at the people behind her.

Lin Jian took the peach hairpin and handed it to him.

Bai Shuang narrowed his eyes and smiled.

"You've been waiting for too long. That mortal girl is long gone. Her sister asked me to tell you that there is no need to wait any longer." Lin Jian told the old man truthfully.

Bai Shuang didn't answer.

"You have waited for more than 30 years. Even if she didn't die of illness, she is still a dying old man now."

"Even if she is around a hundred years old, she is still a little girl to me." Bai Shuang stretched out her hands towards Lin Jian.

Lin Jian solemnly put the peach hairpin in his palm.

Bai Shuang picked up the hairpin, lifted it up joyfully, and put it in the sun.

"Hmph." He Changsheng folded his hands on his chest and sneered.

Lin looked at him puzzled.

"You already knew that the person you were waiting for was long gone." He Changsheng said directly.

Lin Jian's eyes widened.

Bai Shuang smiled, and he said honestly: "When her sister was young, she had a loud voice, and she yelled at my door for several days, saying that her sister was terminally ill and told me not to wait any longer. How could I not?" Did you hear that?"

"She has a loud voice when she's old." Lin Jian said, recalling the scene where he and Ah Er were frightened at the beginning.

"Really? It seems that she is very energetic even when she is old." Bai Shuang was still smiling.

"That's not right." Lin Jian had a question, "Since you already guessed that Ye Qiuyue is gone, why are you waiting here all day?"

Bai Shuang closed her smile slightly, and touched the hairpin in her hand.

"Demons and spirits, this type of creature is like this." He Changsheng was no longer surprised, "Anyway, there is nothing to do in this long life."

"Haha, that's exactly it." Bai Shuang admitted, "To be honest, it's not the first time she's too sick to go out. At first I thought, maybe one day she'll get better and come to me again, so I will still appear here. I have no concept of the long time, and I don’t know how long I waited until one day, I rescued a middle-aged man who fell into the lake. He chatted with me and told him I have heard this name before, and it was Ye Qiuyue’s friend when he was in private school. It was only then that I realized that it has been more than ten years.”

Fantasy was shattered that day.

Bai Shuang looked at the middle-aged man's face and asked him about Ye Qiuyue.

"When she died, she was basking in the sun, smiling." The middle-aged man recalled the scene more than ten years ago, feeling as if it was far away, but also as if it was vivid in his mind, "You look so young, how could you know Qiuyue?" ? Huh, where are people?"

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he turned around but saw no one.

The spirit of the lake hid itself deeply in the water because of grief.

Bai Shuang didn't know how long he had been hiding at the bottom of the lake. He knew that this time it shouldn't be long. Then, he still couldn't help but surfaced at the time agreed with Ye Qiuyue, took the flute she gave him, and started afresh. waiting.

Business as usual.

"I like to joke with mortal children, that's why I talked to you. I didn't expect you to bring me this." Bai Shuang held the hairpin to her chest, looked at Lin Jianxiao, "Thank you."

He Changsheng kicked it over.

Bai Shuang watched his movements and dodged in an instant.

He Changsheng said angrily: "You know what it means to ask a mortal's name? Do you think it's funny?"

"Oh, it's because..." Bai Shuang looked at Lin Jian and smiled sheepishly, "I can't help it, maybe it's because we are destined."

"Since there is a destiny." He Changsheng unceremoniously stated the reason why he came here, "You guys have spirit beads, and in return for this hairpin, give us the spirit beads."

Lin Jian turned his head abruptly, and asked He Changsheng curiously: "I found the hairpin, but you wanted the thing?"

"Do you have a problem?" He Changsheng threatened him, "You brat who owes me a gold ingot."

Lin Jian shook his head and said, "I have no problem."

When it comes to money, the poor are always silent.

"I have the Lingzhu, but I thought you would want this thing more." Bai Shuang suddenly had another hairpin in his hand.

He Changsheng had an ominous premonition.

"In the past few days, a girl has been coming to me, wanting to get back the hairpin she dropped into the lake. But the monster in the lake who picked up the hairpin was unwilling to hand it back, saying that what he picked up was his own. As the lake Naturally, she protects the creatures in the lake. Without my permission, she can’t get close to the lake.” Bai Shuang smiled slyly, “Then do you want spirit beads or hairpins?”

That's why Qinglan was sneaking around the lake, she wanted to get back her hairpin.

Rather than what they guessed, falling in love with the spirit by the lake.

From this point of view, this hairpin means a lot to Qinglan.

He Changsheng thought.

Lin Jian hoped that He Changsheng, as someone else's elder brother, could make the right choice.

He Changsheng thought hard, and then he suddenly realized: "Qinglan's hairpin should be taken back by Qinglan herself, but I have to..."

"Eldest brother! Please!" Qing Lan jumped out from the bushes, where she had been hiding for a long time.

Lin Jian and He Changsheng: "..."

Finally, the three of them went back to the inn together.

Qinglan was elated with her hairpin, while He Changsheng was unhappy.

Lin Jian complained: "I got that hairpin."

In the end, it had nothing to do with him at all.

He Changsheng was even more annoyed, the cooked duck just flew away like this.

"Where did you all go?" Ah Er came out to pick them up at the door of the inn.

"We can prepare to go back!" Qing Lan finally swept away the haze of the past few days.

Ah Er looked at her puzzled, and then asked: "Isn't this hairpin the one I gave you on your birthday this year? Why is it in your hand all of a sudden?"

The story stops here, leaving little room for imagination.