The wind was warm on the spring night, and the waning moon fell on the ground, adding a touch of sweet warmth and making it shine brighter.
Yun Qiao didn't expect that Xi Lanting would come to pick her up, and she was in a very good mood.
On the way back, they passed by a cake shop and Xi Lanting asked Xi Zun, who was driving, to stop the car.
"...I'm full, no need to buy any more cakes." Yun Qiao said.
Xi Lanting: "Buy it back for a midnight snack."
He doesn't eat these sweet and greasy things, and only gives them to Yun Qiao to eat alone.
Yun Qiao laughed.
The cake shop not only buys all kinds of pastries, but also sells red wine part-time.
There are a lot of fine wines in Silentin, all sent by the winery.
Yun Qiao was a little greedy.
After buying the cake and getting in the car, Yun Qiao whispered to Xi Lanting: "Go back and have some wine."
"No drinks for dinner?"
"No, I'm just talking." She smiled.
Xi Lanting agreed.
Back in the courtyard, Xi Lanting changed his clothes first and came out, then asked Xi Rong to buy some food and drinks.
Yun Qiao washed her hands and changed clothes. When she came out, she saw him sitting on the sofa smoking.
He wasn't a heavy smoker, but he couldn't quit.
"...can you smoke?" she asked.
After asking, I felt that this was a stupid question. Once out of the confinement, he was considered a demigod, not a real tree. The trees were just the form that imprisoned him, his prison.
"Yes." Xi Lanting said.
Yun Qiao asked him again: "Do you usually need to eat or drink?"
"I need a little bit," he said. "Sunlight and rain can keep me in my basic shape, but if I eat some whole grains, I won't look so pale."
You will look better.
If he doesn't eat, he will become even paler, like a wax statue, with no vitality.
Although he doesn't have much energy now.
"Where are the tobacco and alcohol?" Yun Qiao asked again.
"It can relieve the pain a little bit." He said.
Yun Qiao: "..."
She lowered her head and fiddled with the ashtray on the coffee table.
Xi Lanting looked at her, reached out and took her into his arms: "Are you blaming yourself?"
"Um."
"Then stay with me for a while and don't run away easily." He said, "I'm fine with everything, I just feel very lonely."
Yun Qiao leaned into his arms and hugged him tightly.
She made up her mind that even if he went back to recuperate in the future, she would build a small house to live near him and stay with him.
Of course, I don't know if she has this fate.
She is an endless flower, and her life is never too long.
"Is there any way to lift his imprisonment?" She tried desperately to recall various forbidden techniques in her mind.
Probably not.
After all, one hundred thousand half-demon voluntarily sacrificed their lives, and the power of imprisonment is unbreakable.
He, a demigod, has not found a solution for thousands of years, let alone Yun Qiao?
Yun Qiao was depressed.
Xi Lanting: "Don't be unhappy. If you are unhappy, I will be sad too."
"I try my best."
"Would you feel happier if you eat something good? There are crab beans in the side dishes to accompany the wine. They are fried to a crispy and salty flavor. It should be good." Xi Lanting said.
Yun Qiao: "Really?"
There was obviously a little more energy in the voice.
Xi Lanting: "You were not greedy before..."
"I'm not greedy now!" She retorted very seriously.
Xi Lanting was amused by her, raised her lips and kissed her: "I believe you."
You don’t believe me, you are perfunctory with me!
The side dishes were good to go with the wine. Xi Lanting was afraid that she would feel lonely eating alone, so she stayed with her.
He had dinner at the Governor's Mansion. He ate more than usual and was not very hungry.
But today's wine was mellow and sweet, and soon he felt the heat in his heart, and the tension and pain in his back were greatly reduced.
He is in a good mood.
Yun Qiao didn't eat much at dinner, and just listened to Cheng Hui's words.
"Lanting, that little kid, General Cheng's grandson, likes bells very much," she said.
Xi Lanting was not interested after hearing this.
"The way he looked at Lingdang, he wished he could eat her." Yun Qiao said with a smile.
The kid looked crazy and wild, which was very interesting.
Xi Lanting leaned forward slightly and kissed her lips.
Yun Qiao was still muttering: "I still have some wine to drink."
Xi Lanting drank it in one gulp and blocked her lips.
Yun Qiao almost choked, the purple-red liquid flowed onto her snowy neck, adding an inexplicable enchantment.
There was a storm in Xi Lanting's eyes.
His fingers were like sharp blades and he tore her clothes.