second to none

Chapter 25

Tan Yin felt more and more that the frivolous, suspicious and annoying monk had gone somewhere, and she didn't hate him less and less. Flick your own forehead, let alone hate what he just said "I like it".

She wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say. She was never good at speaking, so she could only look at him and giggle.

"What are you smirking at?"

Yuan Zhong put a straight face on purpose, raised his hand and gently brushed off the snow on her hair and shoulders, at this time, everything in the Xiangxiang forest was silent, only the subtle sound of large groups of snowflakes falling on the ground.He dusted it for a long time, and soon there were new flakes of snow on her hair. He took off his cloak and covered her head.

"Come out with too little clothes, don't freeze your delicate mortal body."

Tan Yin smiled again, and a thick mist spread from her lips: "I'm not cold."

"Don't stand here if it's not cold." He tied the cloak strap for her, "Let's go back together."

Tan Yin nodded, and turned to call another "Yuan Zhong" who was still standing in the forest: "Yuan Xiaozhong, go back."

Yuan Zhong almost threw the spice basket in his hand on the ground, and asked angrily, "You, what name did you give him?!"

Tan Yin smiled and said, "Yuan Xiaozhong, you are Yuan Dazhong."

Yuan Xiaozhong, Yuan Dazhong... The adults in her family are definitely not elegant people, just look at the child's name.Yuan Zhong glared at her viciously, and then glared at the innocent Yuan Xiaozhong again: "What name does an organ person have?"

Yuan Xiaozhong was so pale by his stare, he hid behind Tan Yin and shivered, choked up and said, "Master, does he hate me?"

Tan Yin patted him on the shoulder reassuringly: "No, he just said that he likes you very much."

When Yuan Zhong saw that expression on his face, he felt his chest tight. Although he didn't dare to pretend to be a mighty man, he would never show such a womanly expression. Exactly the same, this hatred is really hard to get rid of.

He walked over and lifted Yuan Xiaozhong's neckline, and said coldly, "Are you a man?"

Yuan Xiaozhong shook his hands wildly, and said anxiously: "I, I am an organ man! Calm down your anger!"

Yuan Zhong frowned: "Let me see you as a sissy again, and I will tear you down!"

He turned his head and saw Tan Yin watching with a smile on the side, and he was even more angry: "Did you do it on purpose?"

Tan Yin shook her head hastily: "No! Didn't you ask me if I can be a mechanism like a real person? Is he different from you?"

That is to say, in her heart, he is this sissy useless thing? !

Yuan Zhong stared at the sky speechlessly, but the sky didn't look at him, but only fell large groups of snowflakes, dazzled his eyes.

The sleeve was gently pulled, and Tan Yin looked at him worriedly. Although he didn't speak, he understood what she meant.

Of course he was happy from the bottom of his heart, but, if he didn't find other topics to interrupt, he wouldn't know what to do.

A stupid and clumsy man, he lowered his head and smiled wryly.

"...Let's go, let's talk when we go back."

Yuan Zhong held her arm, slowly slid down, and finally held her cold hand. At first, he was careful not to hold it tightly, for fear that she would notice something and quickly shake him off, but she didn't seem to notice it at all, she just turned her head and followed Yuan Xiaozhong Speaking, it is obvious that it is probably the first time for her to make such a mechanism, and it feels very fresh.

He slowly tightened his fingers, and held her hand tightly in his palm, like a thief who succeeded for the first time, nervous, worried, secretly happy, and all kinds of emotions. Bian could no longer hear any sound, he was both happy and sad, worrying about gains and losses, did everyone in the world go through this step?
Back in the small building, Yuan Xiaozhong took the initiative to boil water and make tea. Tan Yin sat in front of the charcoal stove and warmed her hands. She has a mortal body now, and she would sweat when it was hot and shiver when it was cold. It was really troublesome.

The doors and windows are tightly closed, and cotton slivers are sealed in all the gaps. The small living room is warm and fragrant. The fox clan is indeed a tribe that likes making incense. Even the charcoal burned is fragrant, and the charcoal is made of blocks. The five-petal plum blossom or nine-petal lotus is very delicate.

Tan Yin picked up a piece with pliers and looked around, and suddenly heard Yuan Zhong asked: "Why did you make the organ man into my appearance?"

She couldn't figure out the answer to this question herself, and when he asked it out of the blue, she couldn't hold the tongs in her hand, and the coal fell back into the charcoal stove.She lowered her head and played with the pliers in her hands. After muttering for a long time, she whispered, "I don't know...that's it when it's done."

The door curtain was lifted, and Yuan Xiaozhong poured tea for them with a teacup and teapot as a good wife and mother, and then ran out with a tray covering his face as if afraid of disturbing them.

Yuan Zhong was angry and wanted to laugh again, and finally said coldly on purpose: "Make me like this, you will be happy."

Tan Yin was very confused: "Isn't he the same as you?"

"They look the same." He sighed, "But their temperaments are completely different. You don't understand men too well."

Tan Yin whispered: "What he will say and do, I can't control it at all. He is different from the wooden figures I made... It is also the first time I have made such a mechanism."

"It's also the last time." Yuan Zhong took her words and said it again without any doubt, "This is the last time, you are not allowed to be someone else's."

Tan Yin raised her head to look at him blankly. She had never seen the expression on his face before. She hoped and wanted to hide it. There was a trace of pain, but there was joy in his eyes, like a trembling little flower bud hidden.

She nodded involuntarily, and the flower in his eyes bloomed all of a sudden. He carefully lowered his eyelids, as if protecting them from being seen by others. After a while, he said in a jokey tone: "Because You like me, that's why you made the warden into my appearance, right?"

She wanted to shake her head, but she stubbornly refused to move her neck. After holding back for a long time, she had no choice but to hang her head and say nothing.

The small living room fell into a strange silence. Tan Yin felt that she should leave, go squat in her messy room on the second floor, and do something else to divert her attention, but she was reluctant to leave, the charcoal fire The roast made her whole body warm and her mind warm.

After a long time, maybe only a while, she was a little absent-minded, and suddenly heard Yuan Zhong say: "When the snow stops, let's go to a bigger town outside, I want to buy something."

I remember that he once said that after leaving Fangwai Mountain, he wanted to travel in the mountains and rivers, but they lived in this small cave for several months, and it seemed that he had no intention of leaving at all.That's fine, stay away from the world, stay away from those war ghosts who were bewitched by the Korean girl, and he will live peacefully until he dies...

This sudden thought made Tan Yin suddenly feel uncomfortable, and the ultimate goal that was almost forgotten by her jumped out loudly.She almost forgot that she stayed with him to wait for him to die.She found herself reluctant to think deeply about the question.

In fact, there is nothing wrong, he doesn't know, she doesn't say, the life of a fairy is only a few thousand years, and being with him for the rest of his life... What's wrong?
She is willing to be a small mortal craftsman for thousands of years, sweating in summer and shivering in winter, making some weird little things every day, in this beautiful cave, there are only the two of them in his life.

She is not only willing to do this for the sake of Taihe, so there is nothing wrong with it.

There is nothing wrong.

The door curtain was lifted again, and Yuan Xiaozhong kindly brought them two bowls of hot soup with the face of a good wife and mother. I don’t know what it was made of. The thick soup was light red and smelled sweet, with A hint of alcohol.

Tan Yin took a spoonful and put it into her mouth. It was sweet, glutinous, soft, rich in fragrance, and the taste was so wonderful that she was shocked: "Yuan Xiaozhong, the food you make is so delicious."

Yuan Xiaozhong twisted his belt and said with a smile, "Just as long as you like it."

After finishing speaking, he glanced shyly at Tan Yin, then at Yuan Zhong, who had a livid face, and said lovingly: "You guys, you should get along well..." Then he covered his face and ran away again.

Yuan Zhong suddenly felt that he didn't want to stay in this cave anymore, otherwise he was afraid that he would tear down this disgusting organ man.He wants to go out right now, right now, right now.

It took four or five days for the heavy snow to stop. During the four or five days, Yuan Zhong locked himself in the bedroom almost from morning to night. He didn't know what was going on. Sometimes Tan Yin went to Looking for him, I heard a crackling sound in the room, and he came to open the door after a long time, and he only opened the door a crack, so as not to let her peek at the scene in the room.

After agreeing that Xueting would go out to buy things, he dragged on for several days before reluctantly leading the Bird of Paradise and Tan Yin to leave the cave, and he hadn't slept for a few days, and a lock of his hair loosened. Hanging by the ears, there's even an unshaven stubble on the chin.

It was rare for Tan Yin to see him look so slovenly. No matter how much he messes around on weekdays, his clothes and hair must be neat. The Youhu clan is a tribe that loves beauty.

Yuan Zhong took a blanket and wrapped her all over, threw her on the back of the bird of paradise like a piglet, then jumped on the back of the bird and sat behind her, whistled, and the bird of paradise flapped its wings slowly. fly high.

He seemed to be concentrating on something, with his chin resting on the top of her head, and with his slender fingers, he pulled the feathers off the bird of paradise's back to play, causing the bird to scream in dissatisfaction.

Tan Yin was tightly wrapped in a blanket. Not to mention cold, she was almost sweating at the moment. She moved with difficulty, and said, "Are you working as an organist? What problems have you encountered? I I can teach you."

Yuan Zhong snorted: "I don't want you to teach me."

"You haven't learned it, and you haven't passed on the craftsmanship, so you can't make it in a few months."

"Be quiet."

Tan Yin was just guessing at first, but now she is [-]% convinced that he is really an organist. She was curious for a moment, and hurriedly asked: "Are you really an organist? What do you want to be?"

Yuan Zhong sighed and straightened her head: "If you are not quiet, I will throw you down."

This fox's temper is always so bad, Tan Yin had no choice but to shut up. Fortunately, the town is not far away, and the Bird of Paradise landed in front of a city gate after flying for less than half an hour. They also have to walk through the gates of the city. The entry and exit are so strict, it should be Guixu, the king's capital of Qiong Kingdom.

I heard that there have been peasant uprisings in Qiong Kingdom in recent years. There used to be a hussar general guarding Jiaping Pass, but later that general disappeared for unknown reasons, and the peasant soldiers approached every day, causing panic in Guixu City. From a distance, you can see the scarlet palace wall, almost every five steps a soldier, every ten steps a guard is set up, some idlers approached, and they were immediately driven away.

Tan Yin was riding on the back of the Bird of Paradise, looking at the scarlet wall, she suddenly had a very familiar feeling, she felt as if she had been to this place before, but she couldn't remember exactly what happened.

In a trance, she felt that Yuan Zhong tied the Bird of Paradise to the door of a shop. She hurriedly turned her head and saw him dodging into the shop. .”

"Oh……"

Tan Yin had no choice but to stop and look at the goods in the store casually. Most of them are handmade things, such as camphor wood masks, exquisite small wooden boxes containing incense powder, and small handmade bronze figures. There is a porcelain basin in the crystal cabinet in the middle of the shop, about five inches high, the porcelain basin is a light azure color, inside the basin is painted with very delicate lotus leaves and lotus flowers, lifelike, and the painting skills are very superb.

Seeing her staring at the porcelain basin, the boss came over with a smile and said, "Girl, the origin of this porcelain basin is not simple."

Tan Yin obviously didn't know how to deal with merchants, so she was immediately hooked: "Why isn't it simple?"

The boss smiled mysteriously: "Have you heard of Mr. Qi?"

(End of this chapter)