It was dawn.

Xue Shao realized that he had been sitting still since he entered the room, and it wasn't until Xuan Yunzi finished telling Fa Jian's story that he felt a tingling in his legs.

So he got up and walked to the window and pushed it open.

A red sun is rising, and the clouds and mist on Zhongnan Mountain reflect ten thousand golden lights. In the misty sea of clouds, it is like a god and Buddha are descending into the world, and the fantasy is mysterious, mysterious and beautiful.

Seeing such a magnificent scene, Xue Shao felt that his whole heart suddenly opened up a lot.

"Are you sleepy?" Xuan Yunzi asked behind him.

"Nope." Xue Shao told the truth, at the moment, he didn't feel the slightest fatigue from staying up late, but was full of energy.

"I'm going to get some breakfast, and then we'll continue talking?" Xuan Yunzi asked.

Xue Shao raised his hand and pointed at the steaming clouds, "Go there!" ”

"Okay."

Xue Shao took a step forward to the strange rock where he sat yesterday, and when he looked at it, a cloud rolled as if he had really arrived in the fairy world. The red sun floated cleanly above the sea of clouds, and thousands of birds flew back and forth and chirped non-stop.

No matter how beautiful the brush is, it can't depict the magnificence of the scene in front of you, and no amount of gorgeous rhetoric can image the majesty of this sunrise.

"Ahh ――”

Xue Shao raised his breath to the sky and roared, startling a group of birds.

Then, he felt more comfortable and relaxed than he had ever felt before. It was as if all the negative emotions that had accumulated in my heart over the years had been swept away.

"Touching the scene?" Xuan Yunzi said behind him.

Xue Shao turned around and saw that she was holding a food box in her hand, and smiled at her: "There is a word that is just used to describe how I feel now, so cool." ”

Xuanyunzi smiled gracefully, sat down and took it out early and put it on the small wooden table, millet porridge, white flour steamed buns, pickles, just these three simple things.

"Coarse tea and light rice, I hope you can get used to it." Xuan Yunzi served him a bowl of porridge and put it in front of him.

"You're too modest. This white-flour steamed bun is easy for ordinary people in the capital to eat. Xue Shao said with a smile, "The food in the Taoist temple is good. ”

"If you like, you can come anytime." Xuan Yunzi said as if he was chatting in ordinary small talk, "Although the Taoist Temple is not rich, a few white-flour steamed buns can still afford it. ”

Xue Shao picked up a steamed bun and nibbled on it, drank another sip of porridge, and said with a smile: "I'm a simple person, it's easy to take it seriously." In the future, I will definitely come here from time to time to eat and drink. ”

"Yes." Xuan Yunzi smiled and said, "With the famous Xue Gong visiting from time to time, my small Taoist temple will definitely be famous." Even if you can eat a cart of steamed buns in one meal, it is only a drop in the bucket compared to the sesame oil money offered by good men and women. ”

"Yo, you're pretty calculating!" Xue Shao said with a smile, "If you are in business, you must be a good hand." ”

"Compared to Yu Hongye, it must be far worse." Xuan Yunzi smiled, "When do you plan to marry her?" ”

Xue Shao was slightly stunned and said, "It's not clear." However, it should be soon. ”

"What about Shangguan Wan'er?"

"It's almost ...... too"

"That's a good thing." Xuan Yunzi nodded with a smile, "They are all good women in ten thousand, in addition to being suitable for their families, they can also provide you with a lot of help." ”

"Or ...... Something else? Xue Shao wanted to divert the topic.

"No, that's it. Talk about your woman. Xuan Yunzi said, "Can you tell me what kind of person Ai Yan is in your mind?" ”

Xue Shao frowned slightly, put down the steamed buns and porridge in his hand, was silent for a moment, and shook his head, "To be honest, I don't know very well. ”

"So you don't know her very well?"

"Yes." Xue Shao nodded, "She and I don't have any chance to get along at all, and we don't have too many deep feelings for each other. Even now, I can't remember what she looked like. ”

"But that promise, you shouldn't forget." Xuan Yunzi said.

"Yes, I remember it all along." Xue Shao said, "A few years ago, at the Jiafeng Ancient Road outside the Shuozhou Great Wall, I promised her that one day I would take their mother and son to the Central Plains. ”

Xuan Yunzi looked at Xue Shao with a smile and sighed softly, "Ai Yan is a good woman, she touched me a lot. Many of my ideas have changed because of her. ”

"What are the ideas?" Xue Shao asked.

Xuan Yunzi seemed to ponder for a moment and said, "The most important one, I am no longer obsessed with our marriage contract, and I no longer expect you to truly fall in love with me. It was Ai Yan who made me, a cultivator, truly understand what it means to go with the flow and do nothing without doing anything. ”

Xue Shao's brows furrowed slightly, and he fell silent.

"Ai Yan has always remembered your promise and has been waiting. But her waiting is not a longing and unforgettable expectation, she actually sees it very lightly, and everything goes naturally. Xuan Yunzi said, "When I asked her, if Xue Shao came to pick you up from the grassland one day, would you promise her to go back." ”

Xue Shao asked, "How did she answer?" ”

She said, "It depends on the situation, who can say well about the future?" Xuan Yunzi said, "At that time, her tone was very relaxed and casual, and she didn't feel bitter and hateful at all. ”

"In other words, my promise is actually dispensable to her?" Xue Shao asked.

"Perhaps......" Xuan Yunzi said, "but people have to think about it a little bit when they live." She has lived alone on the snowy mountains with your son for so many years, and what can support her all the way is nothing more than such a little thought. ”

Xue Shao frowned again, "I've heard Chu Yu talk about something, Krakus. ”

"He was smart, filial, strong, and brave." A warm smile appeared on Xuan Yunzi's face, "He looks a lot like you." ”

Xue Shao fell silent.

"However, he belongs to the steppe." Xuan Yunzi said, "Even if he is your biological son, this fact can no longer be changed. ”

"I know......" Xue Shao nodded, "Although I gave Krakus life, his life has nothing to do with me. He belonged to his mother, to the savannah. Although I would love to bring this child to the Central Plains to raise it myself, and with my current energy, I may be able to do it. But I don't think that's necessarily a good thing for him. So I decided for the time being that I would let him live with his mother in the grassland. Things from now on, everything will go naturally. Even if he didn't know that there was a father for the rest of his life, I wouldn't force it. As long as they mother and son can really live well. ”

"It's like you like that wreath and you won't ask for it when I give it to you. You love something but you don't force it to possess it, you just want it to remain as perfect as it was. Xuan Yunzi said, "Ordinary people don't have such a state of mind and mind as you. Even if there is, it is difficult to actually do it. ”

"I'm not as inscrutable as you say." Xue Shao smiled, "I'm just a layman, I can neither be seen through life and death, nor can I see through the red dust. It's just that after experiencing more things, you will understand what it means to truly cherish it. There are some people who can't be missed and disappointed, such as Princess Taiping, Shangguan Wan'er, Chen Xian'er, Linlang, Yuenu and Yu Hongye, I will try my best to be good to them and take care of them in my lifetime. There are some people I've missed and already let down, as long as they can live well from now on, why should I go back and force it? Xue is not an omnipotent god that the world worships, and they have their own opinions in life, not me. ”

Xuan Yunzi was silent for a moment after hearing this, and smiled slightly, "What about me?" I'd love to know, what do you think of me? ”

Xue Shao smiled and blinked, "Do you really want to say it?" ”

"Yes."

"Once, you stressed me out." Xue Shao said, "Let me want to run away as soon as I see you." ”

"I know that." Xuan Yunzi said, "That period of time was probably the darkest time in my life. Even I think I'm the most disgusting woman in the world. ”

"Not disgust. I've never been disgusted with you. Xue Shao said, "On the contrary, it is precisely because you have a relatively important position in my mind that I can't accept that you will interfere in my marriage." Think about it, if you were just a person who had nothing to do with me, that marriage at that time was just a pair of chopsticks to my home. In that case, we would have been married long ago. ”

"Because you care, there will be pressure?"

"Yes." Xue Shao said, "I have always felt that you are very mysterious, and this kind of mystery is very attractive to me. And your beauty and your wisdom make me feel that you are so different. But I don't have much of the possessiveness and conquest that men have for women. To put it bluntly, Xue Shao has no shortage of women. But there really is only one confidante like you. So I greedily hope that you can be by my side for the rest of your life and be my confidante. In your words, I don't want the two of us to become a couple of old husbands and wives who are tired of each other in the midst of firewood, rice, oil and salt. ”

After hearing this, Xuan Yunzi smiled sincerely, "Xue Shao, thank you." ”

"Thank me for what?"

Xuan Yunzi smiled and said: "Originally, I thought that there would never be a person in this world who would truly understand Xuan Yunzi's complex and bizarre inner world. Sometimes even I can't figure out what I'm thinking. For our marriage, I was very hesitant and miserable, and I couldn't find any way out. Later, when I returned from the Turkic steppe, my thought was that everything was left to fate. If the Empress and you still insist on this marriage, I will do as I please. At that time, I had completely compromised, and completely abandoned the illusion that you would really fall in love with me, and was willing to become a pawn in a political marriage. But now you have given me a surprise, it turns out that Xuanyunzi is not lonely, because Xue Shao understands her; It turned out that Xuanyunzi also had a unique position in Xue Shao's heart. ”

"Did you find out?" Xue Shao smiled and said, "You have always been unique and important to me. ”

"When I hear these words come out of your mouth, I am even more sure of one thing." Xuan Yunzi said.

"What's the matter?"

Xuan Yunzi gently raised the dust, and said with a smile: "Love is really nothing great, and the name of husband and wife is just an epitaph of love." So I decided to be your confidante for the rest of my life. Like the clouds on the mountain and the sun thousands of miles away, they have never really been together, but they have been inseparable since the dawn of time. ”

"When the sun rises, the morning sun shines."

"When the sun sets, the sun sets."

"As long as you come, I'm here. Whether you are Xue Gong, Xue Shuai or Xue Shao, I am just Xuan Yunzi, your confidante! ”