Bamboo Horse

Chapter 9 Making a Wish in the Peach Blossom Temple

"Master, the carriage is ready and ready to go." On the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the agreement between Mu Yu and Xia Chang was finally about to be fulfilled.

Xia Chang stood beside Mu Yu with a heavy heart, feeling sorry for her.Mu Yu carried Xia Rong into the carriage, and saw that the person in his arms was in a heavy heart, and the original plan to ride a horse was put on hold, so he lifted up his clothes and got on the carriage to sit beside Xia Rong, and naturally stretched out his arms to embrace him.

Xia Yan leaned against Mu Yu obediently, quietly watching his young master, but his hesitant expression broke the quiet atmosphere.

"Xia Chang, you've been restless since you got into the carriage, what's wrong?"

"Master, I will leave after today. I'm sorry, I promised to stay by your side all the time, but, but..." However, Xia Yan was about to renege on his promise.After finishing speaking, tears streamed down my face.

Mu Yu pulled him in front of him, "Xia Chang, no matter what tomorrow is, today you are by my side, swimming with me. I don't want you to keep thinking about the future, so, listen clearly, today you just Xia Rong, there is no young master, no dignity, only Xia Rong whom I like."

Xia Yan choked up and nodded, threw herself into Mu Yu's arms, and couldn't help inhaling the pear fragrance from Mu Yu's body.

Since he is only Xia Rong today, can he do what Xia Rong dared not do in the past?

No, no.The young master can disregard his superiority or inferiority, but I can't. I am always the young master's book boy, and I can't do whatever I want due to emotion and reason.

Mu Yu felt the body of the person in his arms becoming more and more stiff, so he stretched out his hand to gently stroke his head, tightened his arms, and clasped the person in his arms.

"There is still some distance from the temple on the outskirts of the city. If you wake up early today, why not sleep for a while to recharge your batteries."

"Yeah." Before Xia Rong could withdraw from Mu Yu's arms, Mu Yu pulled him out first. Facing Xia Rong's bewildered expression, Mu Yu pulled off the belt around his neck and pulled him out The cloak behind him was pulled to the front to cover him, and then he untied his own cloak and wrapped it around him as well.

Xia Yan was speechless, "Master..."

"Be obedient. Although it's early spring, the cold air hasn't dissipated. You're weak, so it's better to keep warm." Mu Yu adjusted his hem as he spoke, wrapping Xia Rong's legs tightly, even if he accidentally slipped out of the car curtain. Even a few strands of cold wind blowing in will not catch the cold.What's more, Mu Yu's carriage was originally specially made for Xia Chang. The curtain was sealed and left a ventilated place, so it didn't feel stuffy to sit in it, and at this moment the curtain was closed.With such painstaking protection, Xia Rong will not easily catch the cold no matter how weak his body is.

A warm environment can easily make people drowsy, not to mention Xia Yan who wakes up before the hour.Rubbing his eyes, he adjusted himself in Mu Yu's arms out of habit, found a comfortable position, and went to look for Duke Zhou with peace of mind.Mu Yu looked at the dreaming person in his arms with a smile, and said to the servants outside who were waiting for orders, "Let's go."

The road out of the city began to become rough, and the carriage began to bump.Fortunately, Mu Yu had the foresight to spread a thick soft blanket inside the carriage.It's just that when we reached the mountain road, this layer of blanket didn't help much. The horse neighed and stopped moving forward, no matter how much the groom scolded him, he remained indifferent.Mu Yu looked at Xia Rong who was sleeping more and more restlessly, lifted the curtain, picked Xia Rong up in his arms and walked up the mountain road.In his sleep, Xia Rong stretched out his arms unconsciously to wrap around Xia Rong's neck, as if grasping something reassuring, the tightly clenched hand slowly loosened.

Mu Yu felt Xia Ling's relaxed state and felt relieved, only then realized that they had walked a short distance, but they were just sweating a little, but they didn't feel tired.Although Mu Yu is a martial arts practitioner, his lightness kung fu is far from reaching the level of holding a person in his arms and stepping on the snow without a trace.He weighed the person in his arms and immediately understood.Xia Chang's weight is not like a strong and strong boy, but he is clearly a child of undersized stature!Mu Yu's hands trembled involuntarily.

Several servants following Mu Yu saw the young master staggering, thinking that he was exhausted, they surrounded him one after another, "Master, let the servants come." "Yes, young master, or you can wake up the young master."

"Everyone back down." Mu Yu didn't get angry and prestige, and looked at Xia Qiao in his arms gently, "I slept so well, how could I have the heart to wake you up?"

It's just that Xia Yan's hand moved, and then he opened his eyes, looking at Mu Yu in a daze, "Master..."

"Why did it still wake you up?" Mu Yu's eyes were so tender that dripping water, he kissed Xia Yue's forehead, and said with a smile, "Go on to sleep."

Only then did Xia Rong realize that he was no longer in the carriage, and realized that the person holding him was his young master, which horrified him, he let go of his hand and struggled to get off, "Master, yes, I'm sorry, Xia Rong, no , I, I'm coming down now..."

His helpless appearance pleased Mu Yu. He put Xia Rong down, wrapped his arms around Xia Rong's waist, and tightened it towards his body. He rubbed Xia Rong's hair with the other hand, "Let's go, here It’s not far from the temple.” Seeing that Xia Rong was still about to escape, Mu Yu directly grabbed his hand and held it in his own, pretending to be angry and saying, “Don’t resist anymore!”

It had just rained a few days ago, and the mountain road was muddy and slippery, making it extremely difficult to walk.Xia Yan looked at Mu Yu while thinking, "You Fang really carried me on this mountain road?"

"Otherwise, how do you think you got here? Or do you think I'm willing to hand you into someone else's arms?" Mu Yu took Xia Rong's cool hand, paused, took off his cloak and draped it in Xia Yu's arms. On Jiao, "The mountain wind is extremely cold, after all, I didn't think carefully. If you suffer from typhoid fever again, I'm afraid I will hate myself to death."

"Master, I..."

How can I, Xia Ling He De, be treated so wholeheartedly by the young master?

"Okay, look, it's just ahead."

Xia Rong walked a few minutes faster, and walked into the temple first, but didn't see many people, but Xia Rong's attention was on the marriage tree in front of the main hall.The trunk was quite thick, and red ribbons were hung on the branches, with words written in ink on them.

"Master, let's write one too, shall we?" Xia Yan excitedly dragged Mu Yu to the table beside him, and picked up a pen to write, but when he wrote it, he didn't know what to write.

"Master, what am I writing?" Xia Rong bit the pen holder in distress, but was stopped by Mu Yu's sharp eyes and quick hands, and wiped Xia Rong's mouth, "Don't bite, the pen holder is not clean." He took the pen from Xia Rong's hand , wrote the two vertical characters, Xia Yan curiously leaned up to it, then turned his eyes away, and walked unnaturally towards the hall where the gods are worshiped, leaving Mu Yu alone with a hearty laugh.After laughing, he was extremely serious, so serious that he flew up to the tree almost piously, and tied the red strip to the highest branch.

In the main hall, Xia Yan knelt down under the seat of the Buddha statue, closed his eyes, folded his hands in front of his chest, and muttered something silently.As soon as Mu Yu entered the hall, he saw Xia Rong kneeling straight on the cold floor. He couldn't help being angry, and pulled the cushion beside him and stuffed it under Xia Rong's knees, "Can't you be smarter? The floor is so cold, what if the floor is so cold? What do you do if your knees are cold? Are you trying to worry me on purpose?"

Xia Yan suddenly opened his eyes and covered Mu Yu's mouth, and even took the initiative to kiss Mu Yu's cheek to calm his young master's anger. You have to be devout, and only by kneeling on the ground can you show your devout intentions."

Seeing Xia Rong's insistence on this, Mu Yu couldn't bear to make Xia Rong angry, so he asked the servants waiting outside the palace to fetch ginger slices from the carriage, but he walked up to Xia Rong's side, pulled the mat away with his hands, and knelt beside him Next, I also made a wish.Young Master Mu didn't believe in these things at first, but seeing that his baby believed in them, he also accompanied him.

After leaving the hall, Mu Yu picked up Xia Rong and walked to the pavilion in the back garden, took the ginger slices handed over by the servant behind him, wrapped it in cloth and put it on Xia Rong's knee, and took a bandage to wrap it around , just looked up, and covered Xia Chang's face with warm hands, "This ginger slice is soaked in hot water, it's the best to keep out the cold, I just knelt for so long, I hope this ginger slice can warm your joints, Don't leave the root of the disease." He said and pulled the collar on La Xiayao's cloak, wrapping it around his bare neck.

It was only then that Xia Rong discovered that there seemed to be not many people in the temple that was said to be filled with incense.

"Master, why are there so few people today?"

Mu Yu seemed to have just discovered it, and he nodded in surprise, "Yes, maybe it's because they made a wish, it's cold today, so they don't want to come."

Xia Chang didn't ignore the flashing smile in Mu Yu's eyes. Thinking of the rumors a few days ago that there were distinguished guests in the wishing temple on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and civilians were not allowed to set foot in the wishing temple, he suddenly understood, "How much money did you give the abbot? They can actually let them release such news.”

"Huh?" Mu Yu raised his eyebrows, "I didn't say anything, I just told them that my father is Mu Zeqi and I am the fourth son of the Mu family. I have to say that the name of the fourth son of General Mu is resounding enough, so they released This news."

"Hmph, bullying others with power, a fox pretends to be a tiger, and has a deep scheming mind."

Mu Yu nodded, "Okay, I bullied others, I pretended to be powerful, and I was scheming. It's all my fault. As for you, just enjoy yourself."

Xia Changmin pursed her lips and said nothing, but turned her head slightly to avoid Mu Yu's scorching gaze.

The ginger slices began to take effect not long after, and Xia Chang only felt that the originally cold knees seemed to be the source of all the warmth in his body. He subconsciously looked down and saw that he was half-kneeling in front of him and rubbing his legs. Mu Yu glanced at him, who raised his head and showed a bright smile.It is different from any previous laughter, it is just the simplest, I hope that the person I like can smile happily.Xia Rong suddenly wanted to hug him desperately, kiss him, be with him, and everything belonged to him from now on.

However, he is the young master, and he will not be a couple for life.There has always been a hurdle in Xia Chang's heart, not only the girl who was killed by the stick and her noncommittal marriage with Li Shishu'er, but also her own identity.If it weren't for this hurdle, I'm afraid I would have expressed my heart to him long ago.

"Master, I, I'm ready." Xia Chang immediately retracted her feet after regaining consciousness, and covered her under her cloak.

Mu Yu is well aware of the reason why Xia Rong has been unwilling to agree to be with him all this time, but he is not worried about this issue, as long as the plan tonight is successful, then Xia Rong will not run away again.Even if the plan fails, Mu Yu will never allow Xia Rong to leave him.

All is ready except for the opportunity.He got up and sat beside Xia Rong, and suddenly stretched out his hand to wrap around Xia Rong's waist and whispered in his ear, "May... what did you wish for? Could it be that you want a marriage?"

"I didn't! I promised..."

"Shh, it won't work if you say it." Mu Yu pretended to be mysterious.Seeing that Xia Rong seemed annoyed, he said again, "Let's go to Daoxiang Village, don't you like their jujube paste Yuanxiao the most?"

After speaking, he took Xia Rong's hand and led Xia Rong forward.Xia Yan let him pull her, lowered her head and kept staring at the interlocking hands of the two, silently followed behind Mu Yu, and looked up at Mu Yu's solid back from time to time, since childhood, Mu Yu protected herself memories come to mind.

Mu Yu's smile, Mu Yu's words, Mu Yu's impatience in writing, Mu Yu's merciless handling of others, everything about Mu Yu surrounds her, deeply embedded in her heart, and has long become a habit.

Why did this person occupy my heart? Why did he occupy my heart and never drive it away again?

What wish did you make?Xia Chang held Mu Yu's hand tightly with tears in his eyes.

In this life, I wish to stay by the young master's side forever...

Even if that's just wishful thinking.

The author has something to say: the countdown to the end of the main text, ready to code the finale ~ first make up the QAQ of Chapter 9 that has not been updated this week