In the alleys in the east of the city, the blue stones are covered with moss. A corner of the red eaves of the painting building can be faintly seen in the green courtyard wall. There are swallows returning in pairs and playing around the eaves.
There are two or three branches of exotic flowers in the courtyard, and their branches stick out from the wall. Their fragrance is lingering, and you can listen to the sound of running water flowing gently in the courtyard, which is elegant and quiet.
The courtyard door opened with a "squeak" sound. Qin Yi stood by the door and looked around. Several little foxes stood quietly around. There was a rockery and flowing water in the middle, and there was a bridge on the pavilion. On the stone bridge, Cheng Cheng held an oil-paper umbrella.
, stood quietly in the bridge and looked at the water.
In the cut pupils like autumn water, there are reflections of fallen flowers, which seem to be melancholy.
As soon as the courtyard door opened, a gentle breeze blew by. Cheng Cheng seemed to feel a little chilly and frowned slightly. But he quickly realized that this was Qin Yi coming, and quickly relaxed his brows. He looked up towards the door with a smile.
Yingying: "Coming?"
The drizzle filled the sky and the wind filled the courtyard. No one could see the frowning brows.
Such a poem suddenly came to Qin Yi's mind. He didn't know why. It was clear that Cheng Cheng was not a young man, Ju Yunxiu was, but what Qin Yi saw in Ju Yunxiu was always a fairy-like spirit.
, but in a demon king who is supposed to be more majestic and savage, you can always see the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River, the tenderness and melancholy under the umbrella.
It's like an illusion.
In fact, it is an illusion... Cheng Cheng has not practiced cultivation. She is an ordinary human being. It does not mean that she has the mind and soul of an ordinary human being. Her soul is obviously the same as Chenghuang, but it is used as a distraction. But because she has no cultivation
The frail body brings strange feelings. Being in this misty and rainy picture of Jiangnan always gives people an illusion of helplessness and gracefulness.
Qin Yi deceived himself by seeing Cheng Cheng but not Cheng Huang, but Cheng Cheng accompanied him in the play, as if they were really two people.
A demon king who cannot have any emotional communication with humans due to various political considerations, and a human girl who runs her ancestors' clothing shop in the demon city without any spiritual practice.
Look at the beauty of the world in this demon city.
There is not only blood and cruelty here, but also mist and rain in the south of the Yangtze River.
There are not only demon kings here, but also human girls.
She is willing to role-play, and Qin Yi is also willing to act with her.
"Sit." Cheng Cheng happily held his hand and sat across from each other on the stone table in the pavilion.
There was already a wine flask and two small cups on the table. Cheng Cheng poured the wine for him and said with a smile: "Do I need to be mute?"
Qin Yi smiled: "No... in fact, you don't need to pretend to be another identity. It would be bad if you really pretend to have a schizophrenia."
"It's not that I want to pretend, and it's not that you insist on watching me pretend." Cheng Cheng smiled slightly: "You would mention it like that, and I would respond in that way, which shows that we are on the same page. You don't want to get involved in the internal affairs of Demon City, and you don't want me to go either.
Think about it, I am Cheng Cheng, you are Qin Yi, we should be more pure, right?"
"Yes. I don't want to regard Ye Ling as the young master of the demon city, nor do I want to regard Cheng Cheng as a demon king. It involves too much, and it annoys you and me. It would be better to be more pure. Ye Ling has a pure heart, so naturally he can
, I just don’t know if you can do it.” Qin Yi raised his glass: “If nothing else, let me drink to your smooth recovery first.”
Cheng Cheng raised his glasses and clinked them together, and they both drank at the same time.
Cheng Cheng obviously didn't have much capacity for alcohol, and soon his pretty face turned slightly red. Yingying looked at him and whispered: "Are you satisfied with this wine? It's also a human craft, but it uses Demon City Linggu. The fairy family can also have it."
taste."
Qin Yi said: "It's good wine. It's a pity that you can't drink much of this spiritual wine."
"Well...it's easy to get drunk." Cheng Cheng said softly: "But it doesn't matter, the person in front of me is you, so what if I get drunk to death?"
Qin Yi tilted his head slightly: "Don't say this."
"Then what do you want to hear?" Cheng Cheng said: "Apart from being the Demon King, do you really not know my thoughts? You can't... and you still think that I am teasing you?"
This statement already refers to something, and it does not refer to the sentence in front of me.
It’s the sentence from a long time ago: “If you intend to stay for a long time, I am willing to trust you for the rest of your life.”
The words spoken by Cheng Cheng as a human at that time were true.
It's not a deliberate attempt to hook up, nor is it a show to show off to Guo Xiao.
It's true from beginning to end.
But since the responsibility of the Demon King was involved, she didn't dare to face the true meaning, and Qin Yi couldn't believe it. Both parties thought it was teasing.
Things have changed, and suddenly looking back, the two of them knew that it was true.
"I didn't buy this Jinxiu Fang on the spur of the moment to trick you." Cheng Cheng sipped his wine and whispered: "The Demon City originally had an aesthetic in making clothes, and it's not like consuming hair and drinking blood, but the aesthetic is closer to that of the alien tribes of humans.
.This was originally a workshop where my mother worked. Of course, my mother was just an ordinary weaver girl and not the owner - to be more precise, she was just a human slave."
Qin Yi sipped his wine and said nothing, listening to Cheng Cheng's story.
"I don't know how she and my father met by chance. In short, she became his slave and favored him several times. The so-called legend that the demon king fell in love with humans is false. It's just that her mother was very lucky.
Well... you know, the stronger the life, the harder it is to reproduce, and cross-race unions are even more difficult. Other demon concubines have not been able to conceive, but my mother, a human, unexpectedly got pregnant."
Speaking of this, Cheng Cheng was a little sarcastic: "The so-called purity of blood cannot compare with the crisis of the end of the world. It is that simple for my mother to change from a human to a queen. This Jinxiu Fang has also been set aside as a memorial and has become one of the royal family's properties. So I
I am the proprietor, my body is here permanently, and I have even designed the clothes myself. I learned them from humans, I’m not lying to you.”
Qin Yi smiled: "Well, the beauty of the world in the demon city has always been the same from before to now."
Not only this Jinxiu Square, this is only a microcosm at best. The human beauty of this demon city is reflected in many human systems and civilizations, which are different from the group of demons. They are all advocated by Cheng Cheng.
Cheng Cheng held his chin charmingly and asked: "Actually...Qin Yi, do you know that the offspring born from the union with monsters have impure blood lines, so why doesn't anyone care?"
Qin Yi was startled. He hadn't thought about this before. It's right to say that. Where do the offspring born from other demon clans come from pure blood? Why don't they care, so they still discriminate against humans?
"It's not simply a matter of discrimination against humans, but a crisis of consciousness and dominance." Cheng Cheng said lightly: "I was born to be a king, and they had no choice. But since I have human blood, I naturally have human biases.
I will promote human craftsmen, and even have human advisers in some important departments. Monsters cannot eat people casually, and must be certified and reported, and so on. If it were not for the fact that I am indeed the strongest, I am afraid that the White Kingdom would have rebelled several times. Before.
Guo Xiao and Guo Xiao often used this kind of thing to incite our Bai Kingdom, but I suppressed them all."
Qin Yi finally understood where Ying Li and the others were really worried.
This thing is more serious than just pure blood, much more serious.
"If my offspring are born from the union of humans, the future of the monster city will inevitably change. All the monsters will be intolerable. They would rather I marry any monster than marry a human - oh, except for Ye Ling.
."
Qin Yi: "..."
Cheng Cheng looked solemn: "I'm talking about all monsters, not the problem of a few people like Ying Li, but everyone. All of them...including Chenghuang."
The conversation from that year came to mind again: "They are all just trying to gain people and money, and there are no sincere people."
The monsters are not necessarily plotting to gain both people and wealth. What they are seeking is more complicated. In short, there are definitely no true-hearted people.
However - "the hard work of our ancestors cannot be abandoned", this is her responsibility.
So in fact, all the details were stated a few years ago, and every sentence is true.
Qin Yi was silent for a while, then raised his glass and said, "I know. Let's have a drink."
Cheng Cheng held down the wine glass and whispered: "But I am Cheng Cheng, I am a human being, not Cheng Huang. I don't ask you to stay forever. If I go with you, do you want me?"
Qin Yi's hand shook slightly, and a drop of wine fell on the stone table, slowly spreading out like a peach blossom.
Cheng Cheng finally raised his own wine glass and said: "I have twin bodies, a demon body as a king, and a human body to serve you. If you are interested, we can drink this cup together."