Lights on the other side

"Young master, you have a fever."

"It's okay." Li Ruoci put on the neatly folded clothes next to her.His left arm was completely useless, and he couldn't lift it up. He had to let others wash and dry his hair for him.

"Young master, this is medicine."

A bowl of dark green concoction, Jin Xiaoxue stood aside in black clothes.

"Well, let it go."

"My lord, your hand..."

Li Ruoci's voice was a little hoarse: "I can still drink the medicine."

King Duan is still in Lingzhou, and he has been here for four days, but Qu Xuese hasn't come back yet.He had a splitting headache and asked, "Has Linghua contacted Qu Xuese?"

"Contacted."

"Then when will he come back?"

"This afternoon."

"Well, when he comes back, you tell me."

"know."

"Go out, I'll rest for a while."

Before leaving, Jin Xiaoxue knew that his left hand was inconvenient, so she made the quilt for him and took care of the fire.The door was closed, leaving only Li Ruoci in the room.

"Pei Shi..."

He called out the name in a low voice, and held the injured left wrist with his remaining hand. The severe pain came, and he finally felt better.

After coughing a few times, his throat was completely speechless in the afternoon.

When Qu Xuese came back, his left hand was also wrapped in a bandage.

Li Ruoci smiled gloatingly, touched the wound on the corner of his mouth, and there was a slight pain, so he calmed down quickly, and faced Qu Xuese with a straight expression.

"What's wrong with you?" Qu Xuese asked seeing the bruise on his face, the bandage on his wrist, and his paper-pale face.

Li Ruoci couldn't get his voice out, so he raised his head, motioning for Jin Xiaoxue to speak for him.

Jin Xiaoxue understood, and said, "My lord, he's injured."

"I can see it. I'm asking how he got himself into such a ghostly state?"

"Young Master arrested Pei Shi, and then he ran away in the middle of the night. Young Master chased him, but failed to catch him, and then he was beaten like this. Probably... probably like this... right... Young Master?"

Qu Xuese laughed and mocked, "That's really miserable."

Li Ruoci still kept silent, just staring straight at Qu Xuese's injured left hand, Jin Xiaoxue translated uncertainly: "Master said, you too."

Li Ruoci nodded in satisfaction.

Seeing the two of them working together, Qu Xuese continued to mock him, but ignored him, turned around and went to another courtyard, where he saw King Duan.

Seeing him leave, Li Ruoci planned to take a bath, but it was not easy for Jin Xiaoxue to do such a thing, so he found a male subordinate.Li Ruoci gesticulated for a long time, but the other party didn't know what he wanted to do.In desperation, he could only find a piece of paper and a pen, and wrote it down in black and white.After tossing for a long time, it was almost night before he entered the water.

The pool was very big, the water temperature was just right, and the undressed clothes were placed beside him. He leaned against the wall and gently closed his eyes.

After closing his eyes, he returned to the Breathless Heaven.

The night was just right, and he and Pei Shi, Xie Yun and Xue Danggui were sitting around a fire.Relatively speechless, Xie Yun suggested: "Let's tell a ghost story."

Li Ruoci glanced at him and said, "Aren't you afraid?"

Xie Yun smiled: "Haha, I won't, you will."

He added: "Not only ghost stories, but anything about ghosts can be said."

Li Ruoci shook his head.

Pei Shi agreed, saying, "Okay, who will start first?"

Xie Yun said: "Xue Danggui, you haven't spoken all the time, so let's start with you, how about it?"

Xue Danggui didn't refuse, and said directly: "I heard it from a Taoist priest who traveled all over the world when I was young."

"Ghosts in the world are ever-changing, and they don't always appear in the same way. One day when the heavy rain came suddenly, he found a ruined temple to shelter from the rain. There were also two scholars in the temple, one in blue and one in white, sitting and talking with each other. Seeing him coming, he left an open space for him. The three of them started chatting. Under the dim light, he saw the blue-clothed scholar's face was pale and bloodless, surrounded by a dead air, and he couldn't help being horrified. Immediately said: "Isn't this already a dead person?"

"The blue-clothed scholar didn't argue, he just stood up and said: Brother Li, since I have gone to the appointment, my wish has been fulfilled, and the matter has come to an end, there is only one difference, just please collect my bones under the bridge in the town. After that, wipe your face and turn it into a The ghost is gone."

"He and the white-clothed scholar came under the bridge as promised, and they found the blue-clothed scholar who had drowned. The white-clothed scholar was terrified, and went away with his bones."

After the story was finished, the fire in front of him flickered.Li Ruoci secretly glanced at Pei Shi, only to find that Pei Shi was also looking at him, and when their eyes met, they both moved away immediately.

The next one is Xie Yun, Xie Yun said: "This is actually a dream of mine."

"I dreamed that I was playing in a bustling town. They were celebrating a festival. I didn't know what festival it was, but I saw the crowds were noisy, and there were all kinds of steamed buns and snacks on the steamer. , fried, everything you expect.”

"At this time, a beautiful sister took my hand and asked me to go with her, and gave me a bunch of candied haws. She pulled me to a small alley with few people, and let go, and no one knew Where did it go?"

"As soon as I lowered my head, I found that the candied haws in my hand had turned into a bunch of tongues, which were soft and red."

Pei Shi hurriedly interrupted him, saying: "Stop talking, I panicked."

Xie Yun was not convinced, and said: "I'm not afraid, what ghost stories are you listening to? Or you tell?"

Pei Shidao: "I don't have a story, but I have heard a poem before."

Then, he said slowly: "Small grass and empty forest, cold rain and wind.

A thin and lonely soul, he lives with someone else.

Lonely Spring Terrace, call you all over the place tonight. "

At some point, Xie Yun and Xue Danggui disappeared, leaving only Li Ruoci and Pei Shi sitting face to face.

A tree grew next to them, and the cool breeze picked up, and the petals fell slowly, pink like peach blossoms, they fell into the fire, and then were burned to death, leaving a bit of lingering beauty.

"It's dimly seen, a line of ghost lights revealing a peach blossom face."

Pei Shi's voice made Li Ruoci in a trance, only to see the red lips opening and closing, very swaying.After finishing the last line of the poem, Pei Shi flicked the fire on the ground with his hand, extinguished it, and then moved closer.

"Lin Ruoyan..."

This sound was like a sigh, causing Li Ruoci to raise his head slightly.But unexpectedly, a light kiss immediately landed on his lips.

Li Ruoci was taken aback for a moment, then closed his eyes.

When he woke up, he was still in the water.

The water was already a little cold, so he got out of the pool, dried himself, and put on his clothes.Back on the bed, thinking of the dream just now, Li Ruoci felt a little uncomfortable for no reason.He couldn't look directly into his heart and wondered if those things were true or not.

"Son."

Jin Xiaoxue's voice came from the door.

"Come in."

Jin Xiaoxue came in, holding the medicine in her hand.She put the medicine on the table, turned to him and said, "I just sent a letter, the suzerain asked you to go back."