Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1692
It's cold outside, but warm inside.

Ying Baoyue looked at the snow outside the house, hugged the animal skin and asked softly, "How long have I been asleep?"

Li Ji looked back at her, "Three days."

"What?" Ying Baoyue was a little stunned, "Really?"

Not so exaggerated, right?Didn't they have been on the mountain for eight days?
"Fake," Li Ji turned back, staring intently at the skewers in his hand, "I'm just kidding."

There was a moment of silence in the room, and the air seemed to have cooled down a bit.

Ying Baoyue looked at Li Ji's taut skin behind his ears. Even though he couldn't see his face through the mask, she could still imagine the calm and calm look on this man's face at this moment.

"you……"

Not wanting to let the atmosphere in the room continue to be so cold, Ying Baoyue hesitated for a moment, looked at Li Ji's back and smiled dryly, "Why did you suddenly remember joking?"

No, in fact, she was even more surprised that Li Ji was able to joke.

Although this joke is really a bit cold...

With his back to Ying Baoyue, Li Ji felt his neck was a little stiff.

He suddenly found it difficult to look back at her.

"I just remembered that Zhao Guang and the others used to joke around a lot."

Li Ji straightened his neck and turned the things in his hands, and said calmly, "But after trying it, it doesn't seem to suit me."

Not only did it not have the effect of Zhao Guang and Chen Zichu's gags to enliven the atmosphere, but it made the air even colder.

Ying Baoyue was startled, she lowered her head slightly, and looked at her bandaged legs.

Judging by the color of the cloth, it is Li Ji's inner shirt.

A faint warmth rose from her heart.

"What? Do you think I will feel lonely when everyone is gone?"

Does she look that bad?

Even Li Ji did not hesitate to break his own character to tease her for the first time.

"Not really." Li Ji sat upright by the fire, glanced at Ying Baoyue out of the corner of his eye, "You are very strong."

The companions around him left one by one, even Ji Jiashu was gone, but Ying Baoyue's aura stabilized after a moment of frenzy.

The state of a practitioner is not to see whether he is crying bitterly, but to see whether the breath on his body is stable.

The breath is not chaotic, which proves that the Taoist heart is not chaotic. Even if the body is weak, the heart is still strong.

"Really?" Ying Baoyue said softly, her eyes flickering slightly.

"After all," Li Ji said calmly, looking at the fire, "you have never cried once."

Once in the Forest of the Dead in Soochow, and next time in the Great Wall of Eternal Night in Northern Wei Dynasty.

After these two times, he never saw Ying Baoyue cry again.

Even though the trip to Xiling Snow Mountain this time was so difficult, she never shed a tear.

"Why do you care so much about whether I cry or not?" Ying Baoyue couldn't help smiling wryly upon hearing this.

She still remembers that Li Ji stubbornly asked her if she was in pain and why she didn't cry when she was in pain in Southern Chu and Eastern Wu.

For some reason, she always felt that Li Ji would want to make her cry from time to time.

"Someone told me," Li Ji said softly, "tears will dilute the sorrow in the world."

Rather than being depressed, he hoped that she would cry happily when something happened.

Even though he couldn't detect the change of Ying Baoyue's mood through his breath, he hoped that her mood would be better.

That's why he just tried to make jokes, something he's not good at, when she woke up.

"Someone of you said that you could write a book of quotations," Ying Baoyue lifted the animal skin and stood up, "Sometimes I doubt..."

"Doubt what?"

It is suspected that Li Ji, like her, was raised by time travelers.

Ying Baoyue swallowed the words again, "It's nothing."

It's better not to talk about time travel.

"You be careful."

When Li Ji heard the movement behind him and saw Ying Baoyue standing up, he immediately became nervous. He put down his things and was about to come over, "Your legs..."

"It's okay, it's not broken."

Her feet were still shaking a little, but Ying Baoyue looked at her legs, exerted all her strength, staggered to Li Ji's side, and sat down by the fire.

She noticed that what Li Ji was holding in his hand turned out to be a long bamboo stick, with something burnt black and shining on it.

"What are you baking?"

Li Ji calmly turned the bamboo stick in his hand, "Rabbit."

"what?"

Ying Baoyue couldn't help being dumbfounded, and the prototype of Huali could not help but appear in front of her eyes.

She remembered that many of the rabbits on this mountain were divine. Li Ji wouldn't roast the divine beasts, would he?
Li Ji glanced at her changing expression, and suddenly laughed.

Ying Baoyue was startled.

She couldn't remember if it was the first time she heard Li Ji's laughter, but it was very fresh.

But maybe it was because when he laughed before, there were other people there, and she didn't notice.

"I lied to you," Li Ji said in a long voice, took the black mass from the bamboo stick, smashed the outer mud shell on the ground, exposing the scorched hair and oily and tender meat inside.

Ying Baoyue took a closer look and found that there was a bird inside.

"There are no living things on this mountain, so I caught a bird." Li Ji peeled off the mud eggs on the ground, and handed the best part to Ying Baoyue, "Don't worry, eat it, it's not a pigeon."

Ying Baoyue smiled, "How do you know I'm worried about pigeons?"

"Zhao Guang's black charcoal, I think you like it very much," Li Ji poked the fire, "Unfortunately, that guy doesn't know where to fly."

He said lightly, "Otherwise it should be quite fat when roasted."

Ying Baoyue almost choked on the roast meat that Ying Baoyue brought to her mouth, she knew that Li Ji was being duplicity and would not really roast Zhao Guang's carrier pigeon, so she burst out laughing, "You are very good at joking now. "

"is it?"

Li Ji glanced at her, "Then are you in a better mood now?"

Ying Baoyue was startled, put down the bone in her hand, she lowered her head and smiled softly.

"Thank you."

"There is nothing to thank," Li Ji wrote lightly, "We are now in a competitive relationship. If you relax, I will be able to climb to the top of Mingguang before you."

"Really?" Ying Baoyue looked at him with a smile, "Then why don't you leave while I'm asleep?"

If Li Ji had left her like this on the ladder before, he would have become the leader of the high-level ceremony now, right?
"I……"

Li Ji froze for a moment, turned his head away, "I will at least leave if I am sure that you will not die."

"why?"

Ying Baoyue leaned forward in front of him, "Because of that agreement? Guaranteed that I won't die within a year?"

"Because of……"

That reason has been said too many times, and it would be too false to repeat it again. Li Ji hesitated for a moment, then suddenly looked into Ying Baoyue's eyes, "Because you haven't told me yet."

"tell you what?"

Ying Baoyue was taken aback.

"You haven't forgotten, have you?"

Li Ji's eyes became serious, and he stretched out his hand to touch his back, "Did you remember what you promised when you sealed my acupuncture point in Soochow?"

(End of this chapter)