It is said that a long break is better than a newlywed. Come to think of it, Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu have been separated for nearly half a year, and you can imagine their joy.
Qi Xuansu secretly held Zhang Yuelu's hand again.
He does not yearn for long years of ordinary life, preferring the life of fighting in the rivers and lakes, but he enjoys this moment of peace, just like the rain after a long drought.
Qi Xuansu turned around and saw Zhang Yuelu staring at him with a pair of wonderful eyes, a calm smile on his face.
Seeing Qi Xuansu looking at him, she smiled slightly: "Shall we go for a walk?"
Naturally, Qi Xuansu would not refuse and went out with Zhang Yuelu.
The courtyard where Zhang Yuelu is located has a nice view. It shares a large lake with other courtyards. In other words, several courtyards are built around the lake. They are all semi-open structures. There is no courtyard wall on the side facing the lake, and this lake is connected to Zhenwu Lake.
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There was a pavilion not far from the lakeside, connected to the embankment by a winding water corridor. Qi Xuansu took Zhang Yuelu to the pavilion, and the two sat down against the "beauty back" of the pavilion, with their hands still held together.
Qi Xuansu glanced at their intertwined hands and said softly: "I thought you would pull your hands back."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Yuelu calmly took his hand away and asked, "Why do you think so?"
Qi Xuansu said: "Because you always give people a very serious and dignified impression."
Zhang Yuelu laughed dumbly and said: "Of course you have to have a correct attitude when doing things, so that others can be convinced, but in front of you, there is no need for that."
Qi Xuansu reached out again and held her hand.
Zhang Yuelu turned his palm over and held Qi Xuansu's hand.
Holding hands together, Qi Xuansu felt that this moment was the most rare. His whole body felt like a spring breeze, and his heart felt like it was floating in the clouds. I hope it will stay like this forever.
Zhang Yuelu leaned gently on Qi Xuansu's shoulder and asked softly: "Tianyuan, where have you been these days?"
Qi Xuansu's expression stiffened for a moment, and then he said: "This is a long, long story. To paraphrase a sentence in the storybook, I have a story, do you have wine?"
"After your accident, I stopped drinking." Zhang Yuelu shook his head.
Qi Xuansu was moved in his heart and pretended to be sorry: "It's a pity that I have specially prepared good wine. It seems that you are not lucky enough to bear it."
Zhang Yuelu's eyes lit up slightly: "It's a pity. Now that you're back, I can naturally break the precepts."
"Wait for me for a moment." Qi Xuansu let go of Zhang Yuelu's hand, turned and left the pavilion.
Not long after, Qi Xuansu left and returned.
Qi Xuansu spent two Taiping coins to customize an exquisite brocade box, which also came with two glasses. It looked quite similar.
Zhang Yuelu asked curiously: "What kind of wine is this? Could it be a Western red wine bar?"
Qi Xuansu shook his head and said, "I don't understand wine, but it's definitely not red wine. You'd better see for yourself."
Zhang Yuelu borrowed the brocade box from Qi Xuansu and placed it on the stone table in the pavilion. He opened the lid of the box without paying much attention to it.
The next moment, Zhang Yuelu showed a shocked look on his face: "Tianyuan, where did you get it?"
Qi Xuansu smiled and answered the question inappropriately: "It's a good bar."
"Of course it's good wine." Zhang Yuelu was actually a little excited and touched, "When we first met, I just mentioned it casually, but I didn't expect you to still remember it in my heart."
Qi Xuansu immediately began to recall the first time the two met.
Thanks to Sanren's amazing memory, Qi Xuansu quickly remembered it.
It was after leaving the Phoenix Tower that he sat on the steps to sober up, and the two of them talked about Nu Nuerhong and Zhuangyuanhong.
Then Zhang Yuelu said: "Actually, there is nothing wrong with getting drunk. At least you can forget those troublesome things for a while. I heard that there is a kind of wine in Taoism called 'Drunk Life, Dreams and Death', which is specially provided to real people.
Because ordinary wine has no effect on real people, any real person who wants to get drunk will ask for a jar of 'Drunk Life and Dreams of Death'."
"If an ordinary person drinks 'Drunk Life, Dreams of Death', then he will forget many things, forget his parents, wife and children, forget his friends and brothers, and even forget who he is. Therefore, the Taoist sect has strict control over 'Drunk Life, Dreams of Death', and it is rare to see it on the market.
Arrived. I have always wanted to drink it, but I have never been able to do so."
Is this the legendary "Drunken Life and Dream of Death"? A wine designed for real people to drink? These people from Huashengtang even put such good things in jars? But think about it from another perspective, ordinary people will lose their memory after drinking it.
Only heavenly beings can drink it, so it must have a price but no market, and it is probably unsold inventory.
Qi Xuansu looked at the bottle of wine in the brocade box, suppressed the shock in his heart, and joked: "Of course I remember, if it hadn't been for that chance encounter, I wouldn't have been favored by the famous Deputy Hall Master Zhang."
Zhang Yuelu shouldn't say anything for a while, so he could only sigh softly.
Qi Xuansu asked: "Why do you sigh? Do you dislike it?"
Zhang Yuelu quickly shook his head and said: "No, I like it very much. But you must have put a lot of thought into this bottle of 'Drunk Life and Dreams of Death', right?"
Qi Xuansu said truthfully: "It didn't take any effort, it just came easily, it's nothing."
Zhang Yuelu didn't think so. He only said this deliberately because Qi Xuansu didn't want to make her feel bad. In fact, the process was tortuous. He couldn't help feeling ashamed and whispered: "I have nothing to give you."
Qi Xuansu couldn't help but feel ashamed and hurriedly said: "This gift is actually an apology. I don't want you to give me anything. I like you not because of your surname, your origin, or who your master is. Although I, Qi Xuansu, am not a great person,
But I still have some anger, just because you are you, nothing more."
Zhang Yuelu looked at him with full eyes: "Tianyuan, are you telling the truth? Or are you trying to trick me?"
Qi Xuansu said sternly: "Of course I am telling the truth. If I swear, I am just coaxing you."
Zhang Yuelu's eyes were soft and not aggressive at all. He just asked: "You said this gift is an apology, what do you mean?"
Qi Xuansu said: "Then we have to drink and tell stories at the same time."
Speaking of this, Qi Xuansu suddenly remembered something: "By the way. I am only in the stage of returning to my true form. I won't forget who I am after drinking 'Drunk Life, Dreams and Death', right?"
"That's not true. Just drink less." Zhang Yuelu took out the two wine glasses from the brocade box and placed them on the stone table. He also removed the seals on the bottles and filled them up respectively. The wine turned out to be a clear amber color.
, it looks really good in the transparent glass.
Qi Xuansu picked up a cup, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and immediately felt drunk.
Zhang Yuelu also picked up his own glass and took a sip very gracefully.
"That's a long story, where should I start?" Qi Xuansu gently shook the wine glass, looked at the amber liquid in the glass, and fell into memories.
A blush appeared on Zhang Yuelu's face, bright and moving, and he said with a smile but not a smile: "Why don't we start from Yanze?"
The expression on Qi Xuansu's face slowly froze.
Zhang Yuelu took another sip of wine and continued: "Maybe we can start with Tso Wenbu."
Qi Xuansu asked again: "When did you know about it?"
Zhang Yuelu laughed softly and said, "I didn't really know until you said this."
Qi Xuansu immediately understood that he had been deceived: "Okay, so you are deceiving me."
"At first, I didn't think much about it. After all, you were already 'dead' and I witnessed it with my own eyes."
Zhang Yuelu smiled more today than in the past six months. At this time, she held her chin in her hand and held a wine glass in the other, looking at Qi Xuansu with a smile: "Even after I knew that you were not dead, I didn't think of this.
Until you said you wanted to apologize to me, I had to think more. This reminded me of a guess that I denied, and I suddenly found that many things that I had never understood in the past suddenly became clear, so I..."
"You just took the opportunity to test me, and my reaction just confirmed your guess." Qi Xuansu said with a wry smile.
Zhang Yuelu laughed: "Should I call you Qi Xuansu? Or should I call you Wei Wugui?"
Qi Xuansu blinked: "Of course it's Qi Xuansu."
Zhang Yuelu snorted softly with a nasal tone, not at all displeased, but rather a bit lazy and charming.
Qi Xuansu hesitated for a moment and then said: "I killed Wan Xiuwu."
Zhang Yuelu glanced at him: "What then?"
Qi Xuansu asked strangely: "Aren't you angry? I thought you would exterminate relatives out of justice and arrest me."
Zhang Yuelu sighed: "Tian Yuan, anyone can arrest you, but I, Zhang Yuelu, cannot arrest you."
Qi Xuansu asked: "Why?"
Zhang Yuelu looked at him closely and said softly: "I am neither a saint nor a villain."