He didn't respond.

I caressed my heavy heart and stared at him for a long, long time, so long that I didn't even notice my own tears.

I stayed beside him, leaning back in the chair and thinking wildly, I fell asleep before I knew it.

I don't know how long I slept.

It was just that when he suddenly woke up, he found that he was wearing a man's robe, and the person on the bed had disappeared.

Someone was talking vaguely outside the door. I put my robe on the bed with my backhand, and walked slowly to the door. I followed the door and saw a few soldiers in armor knelt in front of Nie Ran. The veteran general said in a trembling voice, "Young Master. ...Liang's army has been defeated and gone to the western border...it's just our army..."

Another veteran choked: "General Nie and the others are also... Young Master, now, only us, only us..."

Nie Ran turned his back to me, I couldn't see his god, his back was like a sculpture, motionless, the old general wiped away his tears and said, "Young Master, no, don't be discouraged, my subordinates have prepared a boat by the river. , you can cross the river to stay away from the Qing soldiers... Young Master, we still have the military talisman, and we can also win over the old troops of the former dynasty in the north, and we will definitely make a comeback. Young Master, as long as the Young Master is still there, the Young Master is the hope of Da Zhou... …”

Nie Ran was silent for a while, and his voice could not be heard: "General Chen's words are very true. You two step ahead, I will meet you when the sky is bright."

After the veteran soldiers left, Nie Ran sat quietly by the door, wondering what he was thinking.

I slowly opened the door, and Nie Ran looked up at me, "Waking you up?"

"...No, I see you're not here...so..." I was in a mess, thinking of the way he called me "He Feng" when he was asleep, it was completely different from the calm and alienation at the moment, I said: "Just now …”

"Um?"

"When you were in your sleep... once in a daze...asked me..."

"ask you?"

"Ask me... where are we..." I looked at him tentatively, "Can't you remember?"

Nie Ran frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head, "Maybe I'm injured and my mind is a little unclear, don't take it to heart."

I looked at him, his expression didn't seem to be fake, so I nodded and sat down beside him, "Your injury... is it getting better?"

He said, "Hmm."

I didn't know how to continue the topic, my mind was blank, he said to me: "Zezhou City is saved, Lu Lingjun is still alive, you can rest assured." After a pause, he turned to look at me, seeing I'm not happy, "What's wrong?"

I lowered my head and found that my hands were trembling slightly, "The Liang army is attacking the territory, and the imperial army cannot catch up, and the capital is too busy to take care of itself. Shouldn't you take this opportunity to attack the dragon? Why? Why did you come to Zezhou?"

He said slowly: "At this moment, what does this question mean to you?"

I said: "Yes. I want to know the answer... I want to know, is it because you are worried that Liang Jun will eventually take advantage of the fisherman? Or is this also one of Nie Guang's strategies? Or..."

"Because you're here," he replied without warning.

Everything in front of him blurred in an instant, and then gradually became clear. The moonlight reflected Nie Ran's deep sea-like eyes, "Because you are in Zezhou, I want to save you."

I looked at him blankly and heard my voice trembling: "Nie Ran, I don't deserve you to treat me like this..."

"worth."

This sentence is so familiar.

When I first met Xu Fang, I yelled at Xu Fang in the village and told him that my true heart was not in him, and he said the same thing to me.

But these warm words stabbed my heart like a knife at the moment, and I met his gaze: "You..."

He suddenly raised the corner of his mouth and smiled, "I lied to you."

I don't understand, "Huh?"

"Princess." He said, "Today you also heard Liang Jun's coach Feng Zhixi say that they attacked Zezhou together with their father. This campaign in Zezhou was originally started by the Nie Jiajun, so why are we? saved you?"

Tonight's moon hangs in the dark night sky, so desolate and cold. He looked at the night sky calmly, "As for me, even if... I choose to embark on this road to restore the country, but I don't despise them using the power of foreign invaders and enemy countries to exchange the lives of millions of people for the country... This is That's my answer."

Moonlight pulled our figure to the ground, his hands were crossed on his knees, holding them tightly.

He didn't know that in the past in Chenjia Village, whenever Xu Fang made a guilty conscience against me, his two hands would be held together like this.

I turned my head away, and suddenly felt that something was jammed up in my chest. Nie Ran suddenly said, "I've always had doubts..."

I looked back casually, "Huh?"

He took out the jade flute from behind and shook it in front of me, "Where did you buy this flute for him? I remember that Chenjia Village was a fishing village, so there is no way that any jade flute could be sold."

I was reminded and couldn't help laughing, "In order to buy this jade, I walked for half a day and bought it in Linzhen... Don't look at the poor quality of this jade, in order to buy it, I washed it Long time clothes..."

His eyes softened, "It seems that the princess really suffered a lot at that time..."

I blurted out: "Being with someone you like, what's the point of suffering..."

Nie Ran's turning to the xiao stopped, and I realized what I said, and said softly, "What I said... is the past..."

He was noncommittal, and a self-deprecating smile appeared on his lips. He turned to look at the peach tree in the courtyard. There was a tree very similar to this in front of my house and Xu Fang's house in Chenjia Village. Play the flute for me. Nie Ran stared at it for a while, then slowly raised the Xiao to his lips, and slowly played the familiar song.

The wind and the moon.

But when he was halfway through, he stopped, he turned his head and asked me: "In the forest that day, you only hummed the first half of this song with me, and I have never been able to figure out the second half of the song. Yin, now, can you sing to me?" My eyes were hot, I quickly turned my head away, and wiped away the tears that slipped out of the corner of my eyes without leaving a trace, "It's been too long...I, can't remember..."

After a long time, he gently broke the silence: "You're right, it's been too long, it's time to forget."

I bowed my head, not daring to look into his eyes, "Nie Ran, are you going to leave as soon as it's dawn?"

"Um."

"Where are you going?"

"I don't know, probably, it will go very far..."

I nodded, "It would be nice to forget everything here and start over..."

"Well, that's fine too."

A few clouds moved slightly, covering the moon, and the light and shadow were mottled and dim.

I stood up slowly and walked into the house, "I, I'm sleepy, go to the back room to sleep for a while, you, you also rest early."

Just as I stepped through the door, he suddenly stopped me: "Princess..."

I stopped my pace, pressed one hand on the door frame, then slowly turned my head and tried to smile, "What's wrong?"

He looked at me, and there was a momentary fluctuation in his eyes, as if he wanted to say something to me, but he looked at me deeply for a moment, and he didn't say anything after all, just smiled very lightly, and said, "It's nothing, come early... …rest."

The two rooms, separated by a wall, are exactly the same as when the Chen family's village house was at that time.

It's just, it's impossible to go back to the time that was forgotten in the past, and when I opened my eyes every morning, I saw him sitting next to me, and then asked me carefully: "You...remember me? Me, my name is Xu Fang."

I am no longer a gentleman, and he is no longer a gentleman.

But this night, who of us can sleep peacefully?

The night was getting thinner, and the sky was oozing with light.

When I woke up, I was startled to realize that the sky was already bright.

I put on my shoes and socks silently, and walked around to the outhouse. There was no one in the room, and neither Xiao nor Jian was on the table. He really had already left.

It turned out that the last sentence last night was actually saying goodbye.

I walked out of the village house slowly, and in front of me was the sound of the river slamming on the bank, and my clothes were facing the wind.

A river of autumn water, like silk brocade, condenses into a thin mist at the extreme eyes of the water and sky.

I saw a flat boat. On the boat, there was a man in a commoner sitting quietly, paddling and slowly sailing to the heart of the river.

But it wasn't who Nie Ran was.

But why, he was only one person, didn't he leave with his subordinates?

Uneasy in my heart, I walked forward subconsciously, and then saw Nie Ran throw the long oars into the water and slowly stood up.

Him, what is he doing?

In the next instant, I could clearly see that the torch in his hand was gently placed on the boat by him—

A little scarlet light suddenly ignited a raging fire!

"No!" I exclaimed in disbelief, "No way!"

The leaf light boat seemed to be full of rice husks poured with kerosene, and the fire spread with the wind.

I looked forward in horror, thinking back to last night at this moment, how could I not be able to see the clues of all kinds of abnormalities!

He lived for the restoration of the country in his life, and he carried too many burdens, but in the end, all the tribes who followed him died for him, but not on the road to the restoration of the country.

How could he still be willing to live alone!

I just feel that the flame is burning in my heart, but nothing can stop it. I can only stumble into the river and shout with exhaustion, hoping that he can hear it, change his mind, and don't go down this dead end.

In the Hokage, the figure of Qing Jun still stood quietly, as if the swirling heat did not affect him at all. He took up the jade flute and bowed his head slightly.

The sound of the flute is clear and gentle, flowing quietly, like the warm morning sun, and like the breeze under the moon.

Once, the person who composed this piece told me: Be warm and warm, follow and be warm, wherever the wind goes is my direction.

Xu Feng and Yue, this is the promise of Xu Fang and Zefeng under the moonlight.

Immediately after the next portamento, my breathing almost stopped for a split second.

It's him.

The melody of the song is endless, meaning qíng, which is the second half of Xu Feng and Yue.

It was the half that I couldn't finish singing in the woods, and the half that I lied to Nie Ran that I couldn't remember it anymore.

It's always...it's him.

"Xu Fang..."

"Xu Fang!!!"

The vision in front of me began to blur, I fell into the water, and shouted his name over and over again, but I couldn't hear any response except for the music.

Qu Zhong asked, but he still remembered the peach blossoms in March, the bright night of the moon, swimming on his shoulders, accompanied by his long appearance.

It's just a few trips, a few drunks, and a few stays, but can't keep the dream of Shaohua.

The splendid red fire light dyed the clouds in the sky red, and the song of the wind and the moon became the final soul-soothing tune.

When the melody ended, the river surface returned to tranquility again, the sunrise in the east completely rose, and it was a new day.

But in this world, there is no other way.

Chapter 61

The làng flower smashed on the shore stone with a snap, sparkling with sparkling waves.