遠際的天空，濛濛亮了。
溫泉地處山頂，所以第一縷光線自天邊出現時，就落到了溫泉裡。
沈清軒只覺得有一股力量托住了自己，讓他浮在水面，不曾沉下去。
浸泡在天然溫泉的滋味同方寸大的逼仄木桶不可同日而語，沈清軒浸在水中，舒適的只想歎氣。
稍後伊墨也解了衣袍，步入水中。
水波蕩漾著，沈清軒微微睜開眼，看著那披散長髮的人踏水而來，緩緩靠近，彌漫著硫磺味道的空氣多了一股冷冽的氣息，近在咫尺。
沈清軒張口欲言，突然想起自己不能發聲，周圍又無筆墨，竟是連交談都不能了。
這麼久未曾謀面，終於又面對面了卻不能交談，實在是掃興的很，沈清軒神色陰鬱起來。
伊墨泡在水中，看了他片刻，終於抬起手來，冰涼的五指閃爍著一道幽幽綠光，撫上了他的喉頭。
沈清軒看著他的動作，只覺嗓子仿佛被辣汁從裡到外淋了一遍，說不上是火辣辣還是涼颼颼，那股過於鮮明的感覺逼得他眼淚都溢了出來。
待伊墨收回手，他只覺得眼前金光閃閃，仿佛窒息般難受的滋味讓沈清軒摁著嗓子，拼命咳嗽。
先是無聲無息地咳嗽，而後嗓子裡發出嘶啞的怪異聲音，逐漸變重，最後每一聲咳嗽都發出與常人無異的動靜。
他——咳出了聲。沈清軒意識到這點，說不上是驚是喜，只知一道道辛澀水流從眼角蜿蜒流淌而下，伴隨著咳嗽的聲音，一聲接一聲，響徹在著孤寂山峰，霧氣繚繞的溫泉上空。
肺都咳出來，沈清軒咳的兩眼通紅，弓著腰好幾次險險喝了溫泉水，渾身失力地伏在突出的石頭上，大口大口直喘。
伊墨靠在他對面的岩石上，橫著臂膀隨意地搭在兩側，眼神淡漠地看了他一會，最後閉上眼休憩，任由沈清軒趴在對面死去又活來。
一炷香的功夫，沈清軒終於停下咳嗽，緩過氣後捂著嗓子回頭去看，看到的便是這幅場景——霧氣繚繞的溫泉水裡，伊墨倚在一方突出的岩石上，大字型般橫著臂膀，閉目仰頭，神色從容，仿佛身外一切事物都與他無關。
只有那披散的長髮，浮在他身前的水面，偶爾隨著水波微動。
除此之外，他仿佛只是個雕塑，冰冷、淡漠、無動於衷。
沈清軒看著他，心裡莫名難受起來。
因這一點說不清道不明的難受，沈清軒知道自己恢復了聲音能力，卻始終沒有開口，只眼睛一眨不眨地盯著他。
兩人距離不遠，卻也有幾步之遙，溫泉蒸發的霧氣如煙如紗，若隱若現的橫隔在兩人中間，後面是伊墨的臉。
沈清軒自知無禮，卻轉不開視線。想著這世間再找不出第二個人來，這般風華絕代。
正觀望著，伊墨緊閉的眼睫顫了顫，隨後睜開了眼。眼眸且幽且深，靜如千尺寒潭，無一絲波瀾。
伊墨淡淡問他：“怎麼不高興？”
沈清軒心道你怎知我不高興，卻沒有出聲，依舊看著他，好一會才回道：“自然高興。”
時隔近二十年，他首次出聲，聲音帶著些啞澀疼痛，連他自己都陌生至極。須得側耳細聽，再仔細回憶幼時童聲，才敢確定這聲音著實是自己發出來的。
“我……”沈清軒又試探著開口，被自己嗓子裡冒出的聲音唬了一跳，片刻後告誡自己說得熟稔些，緩緩道，“我以為你還要兩月才能回來。”
“事情辦完了，自然回來。”伊墨說。
沈清軒“唔”了一聲，低下頭，思忖片刻再開口：“不知為何，我不想讓人知道自己已經能說話了……”
伊墨點了點頭，表示知曉。
“他們若問我怎麼恢復的，我又不怎麼會扯謊。”沈清軒斟酌著字句，一邊練習發音一邊道，“所以先不打算說了。”
頓了頓，他又道：“你取回蛇蛻了嗎？”
伊墨說：“嗯。”
“那就好。”沈清軒說。
說完又不知道該說些什麼，低頭沉默。
伊墨收回手臂浸在水中，也緘默半晌，才開口問：“這回怎麼生病的？”
沈清軒沒料到他問這個，遲疑了一下，才將過程細細說來，中間自然省去了綺夢那一節，只將事故推諉到飲酒上，飲醉了，沐浴時睡了一覺，水涼了也不知道。這就病了。
這理由說著自己都覺可笑，沈清軒訥訥地垂了頭。
伊墨聽完，抬起眼來凝視他片刻，開口道：“閨閣中的小姐，也不過如此。”
他說的沒頭沒尾，沈清軒卻領悟出他話語裡的揶揄之氣，神色又添羞憤，他竟拿他比作閨中嬌滴滴的女兒家。
可恨他自己口舌功夫不如人家，兼之又是剛剛才能張口出聲，與這活了千年的大蛇一個天上一個地下，只有被欺負的份。
思索了半天，沈清軒也才憤憤回了一句：“自是比不過你鱗實甲厚。”
言外之意，他無他皮厚，百毒不侵。
兩人打著語言官司，在水中泡著，也不覺乏味。夜色逐漸退隱，光線愈發明朗起來，一輪紅日磅礴升起，照得水中兩人眉眼分明。
沈清軒話語說得越發熟練流利，說得愉悅了，也借著水中浮力將自己挪移至伊墨處，想如往常那樣，靠近著交談。
益發靠得近了，才察覺日頭朗朗，照得水色明澈，兩人皆是身無寸縷，水下物事統統在這明澈水中，纖毫畢現。
沈清軒立時滿臉通紅，他自慚身體殘疾，比起伊墨的精實身軀更像是個未及弱冠的少年，細手細腿委實難看，忙低下頭扶著岩石借著浮力又退開兩分。這一番來來去去，手慌腳亂，指尖在那被泉水浸泡的光溜無比的岩石上打滑了一下，沒有攀住，失衡的之下猛地跌進水中，溫熱泉水瞬間滅了頂。
伊墨眼見他在水裡來來回回挪騰，那些心思早就猜到幾分，又見他失手沉下去，在水中撲騰的狼狽，心覺好笑。促狹心起，也就沒有立刻去救，反正從未聽說過有誰在溫泉裡溺死。
可憐沈清軒溺在水裡只曉得伸手亂抓，偏偏什麼都抓不住，石頭太滑，腿又無力。又急伊墨怎麼還不搭手，混亂中竟在水中睜開了眼。
入目卻是一雙矯捷下肢，修長有力，小腿肌肉微微賁起，曲線分明。
視線沿著小腿一直往上，結實的大腿中間烏黑一叢毛髮，如水草般微微漾動，毛髮間靜靜蜷伏的陽物，因水中光線迷離，即使未曾勃起，那物什看起來也異常碩大清晰。
沈清軒也不知哪來的力氣，一手撐住了石壁，“嘩啦——”一聲，自水中抬起身來。
臉上通紅，心如擂鼓。
不知是嗆的或是其他。
一手扶著石壁，一手抹開臉上的水，沈清軒抬臉對上的，便是一雙似笑非笑的眼，頓時心跳的幾乎抑不住，加上嗆了幾口水，連忙低頭又悶悶的咳嗽，借此平復心跳。
只聽伊墨的冷清聲音頗帶揶揄的在耳旁問：“沈公子，這溫泉水的味道可比得過你那中秋佳釀？”
沈清軒現已曉得這蛇是喜歡捉弄自己的，他問得並無他意，真正地調侃罷了。腦中卻不爭氣的瞬間想起中秋那夜冷水浴中，糾纏著自己的冰涼肢體。以及剛剛眼前所看到的景物。
眼角下意識的瞟進水中，因這一場鬧劇，兩人已不知不覺靠得極盡。沈清軒這一眼，將那形狀飽滿的蘑菇頭甚至中間細孔，也看的清清楚楚。
腦中陡地浮現出四個字來：蛇性本淫。
這四個字仿佛蠱蟲，霎時鑽進了他的心臟，牽引了不知從何而來的念頭，一時間欲念乍起，來勢洶洶。
沈清軒分明感到正在平復的心跳又一次亂了節奏，如山中傾盆大雨砸在瓦礫上的混亂無序，聲響越來越大，越來越急。
再也招架不住，只眼睜睜看著他多年的清心寡欲，都被滌蕩了去。
“我……”
沈清軒剛要開口突然回神，猛地倒吸一口涼氣，慌忙忙背過身伏在岩石上，試圖藏起抬頭的欲念，遏制莫名奔湧的雜亂念頭。那股念頭卻十分可恨，越是遏制它越是在腦中胡竄亂闖，無法無天的肆意狂蕩。唬的他根本不敢再抬頭。
伊墨一動未動，目光幽深地打量伏在岩石上的細瘦身軀，那身軀蒼白消瘦，仿佛受了極大驚嚇，正在簌簌微顫，周圍漾動的水紋隨著顫動擴散著漣漪，若無形的細線，導引著伊墨將這水中奔騰欲念和乍起的驚亂，盡攬眼底。
如神祗俯視眾生。
長久的靜默過後，沈清軒終於緩緩自臂彎處抬起頭來，也不敢看向伊墨，垂著眼低聲道：“你送我回去吧。”
伊墨久久不應。
沈清軒正是六神無主，突然肩上一涼。伊墨不知何時繞到了他的背後，伸出冰涼涼的手，制在他的肩頭，將沈清軒掰過來，面對著面。又似不夠，繼續逼近。
轉瞬，兩人面頰已近在咫尺，呼吸噴發在對方臉上，沈清軒又是面紅耳赤。
“沈公子。”伊墨的聲音依舊冷清，並無任何情緒流露其外，似是在談論別人的事一般，不徐不疾地道：“人妖自古殊途，你可要想好。”
沈清軒臉上乍紅乍白。
不待他做出更多反應，眼前一花，耳畔風聲呼嘯起來。
眨眼之間，他已回到山莊中，躺在自己的床上。
像是被丟擲回來的一樣，沈清軒臉上紅潮頓時褪去，換成鐵青。
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The distant sky was getting light.
The hot spring is located at the top of a mountain, so when the first ray of light appears from the horizon, it falls into the hot spring.
Shen Qingxuan only felt that there was a force supporting him, allowing him to float on the water and not sink.
The feeling of soaking in a natural hot spring is completely different from that of a cramped wooden barrel. Shen Qingxuan soaked in the water, feeling so comfortable that he just wanted to sigh.
Later, Yi Mo also took off his robe and stepped into the water.
The water was rippling. Shen Qingxuan opened his eyes slightly and watched the man with long hair walking on the water and slowly approaching. The air filled with the smell of sulfur had a cold breath and was very close.
Shen Qingxuan opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly remembered that he couldn’t speak. There was no pen or ink around him, so he couldn’t even have a conversation.
We haven’t seen each other for such a long time. Finally we are face to face but can’t talk. It’s really disappointing. Shen Qingxuan looks gloomy.
Yi Mo soaked in the water, looked at him for a moment, and finally raised his hand. His cold five fingers flashed a faint green light and touched his throat.
Shen Qingxuan watched his movements and felt as if his throat was poured with spicy juice from inside to outside. It was hard to tell whether it was hot or cool, but the overly vivid feeling made him cry.
When Yi Mo withdrew his hand, he only felt a flash of golden light in front of his eyes. The uncomfortable feeling of suffocation made Shen Qingxuan hold his throat and cough desperately.
At first there was a silent cough, then a strange hoarse sound came from the throat, which gradually became heavier, and finally every cough made the same sound as a normal cough.
He – coughed. Shen Qingxuan realized this, and he couldn’t tell whether he was surprised or happy. He only knew that bitter water flowed down from the corners of his eyes, accompanied by the sound of coughing, one after another, echoing over the lonely mountain and the misty hot spring.
Shen Qingxuan coughed up his lungs and his eyes turned red. He bent over several times and almost drank the hot spring water. He collapsed on a protruding rock with his whole body exhausted, gasping for breath.
Yi Mo leaned on the rock opposite him, with his arms casually draped across his sides. He looked at him indifferently for a while, and finally closed his eyes to rest, letting Shen Qingxuan lie opposite him, dying and coming back to life.
After an incense stick of time, Shen Qingxuan finally stopped coughing. After catching his breath, he covered his throat and looked back. What he saw was this scene – in the misty hot spring water, Yi Mo was leaning on a protruding rock, with his arms crossed like a big letter , his eyes closed and his head raised, with a calm expression, as if everything outside had nothing to do with him.
Only his long hair floated on the water in front of him, occasionally moving slightly with the waves.
Apart from that, he seemed just a sculpture, cold, indifferent and apathetic.
Shen Qingxuan looked at him and felt inexplicably uncomfortable.
Because of this inexplicable discomfort, Shen Qingxuan knew that he had regained his ability to speak, but he never spoke a word. He just stared at him without blinking.
The two were not far apart, but also a few steps away. The mist evaporating from the hot spring was like smoke and gauze, looming between the two of them, with Yi Mo’s face behind them.
Shen Qingxuan knew he was being rude, but he couldn’t look away. He thought there was no one else in the world who was as charming and beautiful as her.
As he was watching, Yi Mo’s tightly closed eyelashes trembled, and then he opened his eyes. His eyes were dark and deep, as quiet as a thousand-foot cold pond, without a single ripple.
Yi Mo asked him calmly : “Why are you unhappy?"
Shen Qingxuan thought to himself, “How do you know I’m unhappy?" But he didn’t say anything. He still looked at him. After a while, he replied, “Of course I’m happy."
After nearly twenty years, he spoke for the first time, his voice was hoarse and painful, and even he himself was unfamiliar with it. He had to listen carefully and recall his childhood voice carefully before he could be sure that this voice was indeed made by himself.
“I…" Shen Qingxuan tried to speak again, and was startled by the sound coming out of his throat. After a moment, he reminded himself to speak more familiarly, and said slowly, “I thought you would not be back for another two months."
“I’ll come back naturally when I’m done." Yi Mo said.
Shen Qingxuan hummed, lowered his head, thought for a moment, and then spoke again: “For some reason, I don’t want people to know that I can already speak…"
Yi Mo nodded to show that he understood.
“If they ask me how I recovered, I’m not likely to lie." Shen Qingxuan carefully considered his words and practiced his pronunciation while speaking, “So I’m not going to tell them for now."
After a pause, he asked again: “Did you retrieve the snake skin?"
Yi Mo said: “Yeah."
“That’s good." Shen Qingxuan said.
After saying that, he didn’t know what to say, so he lowered his head and remained silent.
Yi Mo withdrew his arm and immersed it in the water. He was silent for a while before asking, “Why did you get sick this time?"
Shen Qingxuan didn’t expect him to ask this. He hesitated for a moment before telling the whole story. He naturally omitted the part about the beautiful dream and only attributed the accident to drinking. He got drunk and fell asleep while bathing. He didn’t even know the water had cooled down. That’s how he got sick.
Shen Qingxuan found this reason ridiculous even to himself, and lowered his head in hesitation.
After listening to this, Yi Mo raised his eyes and stared at him for a moment, then said, “A young lady in the boudoir is no more than this."
What he said was incoherent, but Shen Qingxuan sensed the sarcasm in his words, and his expression became even more ashamed and angry. He actually compared him to a delicate girl in the boudoir.
It was a pity that his eloquence was not as good as the other person’s, and he had just opened his mouth to speak. He was no match for this giant snake that had lived for a thousand years, so he could only be bullied.
After thinking for a long time, Shen Qingxuan replied angrily : “Of course I can’t compare to the thickness of your scales and armor."
The implication is that he has thick skin and is immune to all poisons .
The two of them were engaged in a verbal battle, soaking in the water without feeling bored. The night gradually faded away, the light became brighter and brighter, a round of red sun rose majestically, illuminating the two people in the water with clear eyebrows and eyes.
Shen Qingxuan spoke more and more fluently and joyfully, and used the buoyancy of the water to move himself closer to Yi Mo, wanting to talk to him closely as usual .
As they got closer, they realized that the sun was shining brightly, making the water clear. Both of them were naked, and everything underwater was clearly visible in the clear water.
Shen Qingxuan’s face immediately flushed. He was ashamed of his disabled body. Compared with Yi Mo ‘s sturdy body , he looked more like a teenager. His thin hands and legs were really ugly. He lowered his head and supported the rock to use the buoyancy to move back two inches. This time, he was flustered and his fingertips slipped on the smooth rock soaked in spring water. He lost his balance and fell into the water. The warm spring water instantly drowned him.
Yi Mo saw him moving back and forth in the water, and had guessed what he was thinking. Then he saw him sinking and floundering in the water, and he found it funny. He felt mischievous , so he didn’t rescue him immediately. After all, he had never heard of anyone drowning in a hot spring.
Poor Shen Qingxuan was drowning in the water and could only reach out and grab, but he couldn’t grab anything. The stones were too slippery and his legs were too weak. He was anxious and wondered why Yi Mo didn’t help him. In the confusion, he opened his eyes in the water.
What caught the eye was a pair of agile lower limbs, slender and powerful, with slightly bulging calf muscles and clear curves.
My sight went up along the calf. In the middle of the strong thigh, there was a tuft of black hair, which swayed slightly like water grass. The penis curled up quietly among the hair. Because of the blurred light in the water, it looked unusually large and clear even though it was not erect.
Shen Qingxuan didn’t know where he got the strength from, but he supported himself on the stone wall with one hand, and with a “splash", he rose out of the water.
His face was flushed and his heart was beating like a drum.
I don’t know if it was due to choking or something else.
Holding the stone wall with one hand and wiping the water off his face with the other, Shen Qingxuan looked up and met a pair of eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling. His heartbeat suddenly became uncontrollable , and he choked on the water a few times. He quickly lowered his head and coughed muffledly to calm his heartbeat.
I only heard Yi Mo’s cold voice asking in my ear with a hint of sarcasm: “Master Shen, does this hot spring water taste better than your Mid-Autumn wine?"
Shen Qingxuan now knew that the snake liked to tease him. He had no other intention in asking this question, it was just a joke. But his mind suddenly recalled the cold body entangled with him in the cold bath on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, and the scene he had just seen.
subconsciously glanced into the water . Because of this farce, the two of them had unknowingly come very close to each other. Shen Qingxuan could clearly see the plump mushroom head and even the small hole in the middle.
Four words suddenly popped up in my mind: Snakes are inherently lustful.
These four words were like a poisonous insect that instantly drilled into his heart, pulling in thoughts that came from nowhere. All of a sudden, the desire arose with great force.
Shen Qingxuan clearly felt that his heartbeat, which had been calming down, was disrupted again, like the chaotic and disorderly downpour of rain hitting rubble in the mountains, the sound was getting louder and more urgent.
Unable to bear it any longer, he could only watch helplessly as his years of purity and abstinence were washed away.
“I……"
Shen Qingxuan was about to speak when he suddenly came back to his senses, took a deep breath, and hurriedly turned his back to the rock, trying to hide the desire to look up and curb the inexplicable chaotic thoughts. But the thought was very hateful, the more he tried to suppress it, the more it ran wild in his mind, lawless and wanton. He was so scared that he didn’t dare to look up again.
Yi Mo did not move, looking deeply at the thin body lying on the rock. The body was pale and thin, as if it had been extremely frightened, and was trembling slightly. The rippling water around it spread the ripples with the trembling, like invisible thin lines, guiding Yi Mo to take in the surging desire and sudden panic in the water.
Like a god looking down on all living beings.
After a long silence, Shen Qingxuan finally slowly raised his head from the crook of his arms. He did not dare to look at Yi Mo, but lowered his eyes and whispered, “Please send me back."
Yi Mo didn’t respond for a long time.
Shen Qingxuan was at a loss when he suddenly felt a chill on his shoulder. Yi Mo had come around behind him without knowing when, stretched out his cold hand, and placed it on his shoulder, turning Shen Qingxuan over to face him. As if that was not enough, he continued to approach.
In a flash, their cheeks were close to each other, their breath sprayed on each other’s faces, and Shen Qingxuan blushed again.
“Mr. Shen." Yi Mo’s voice was still cold, without any emotion showing, as if he was talking about someone else’s business, he said slowly and calmly : “Humans and demons have always been on different paths, you have to think carefully."
Shen Qingxuan’s face turned red and white.
Before he could react, his eyes blurred and the sound of wind whistling in his ears.
In the blink of an eye, he was back in the villa and lying on his bed. As if being thrown back , the blush on Shen Qingxuan’s face suddenly faded away and turned into a dark blue color.
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