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Chapter 138 (Two in One)
Regarding his childhood experience, Xiao Xun narrated it in an unremarkable tone.
It seemed to be telling something that had nothing to do with him, without any emotion, but this happened to him.
Before meeting Xie Shuci, his lack of emotion made him have no empathy for anyone.
The world is not benevolent, and treats everything as a straw dog.
In Xiao Xun's eyes, everything in the world is like ants, until he met Xie Shuci, he understood that the ants in his eyes may also be "Xie Shuci" in the eyes of others.
Father used his own life to awaken Xiao Xun's disregard for everything in the world.
The mission imposed on him by the world was completely unloaded by Xiao Xun at that moment.
These people are damned, these people don't deserve to be saved.
You want him to be the way of heaven, but he just does the opposite.
Xie Shuci couldn't imagine how he should face his father's death at that time, and he couldn't imagine what kind of expression he would have when he watched the people his father desperately rescued were buried in the hands of fierce beasts because of his greed.
Xiao Xun turned his head and looked at Xie Shuci silently.
Xie Shuci's eyes shone with broken and distressed light.
"Xie Shuci, they are different from the people I met, they are worthy of Songjiu Battalion's life, there is no need to feel pity." Xiao Xun said lightly.
Only then did Xie Shuci realize that Xiao Xun had said so many things about his childhood, but he was using his way to comfort Xie Shuci.
Even though it was his past, to Xiao Xun, it was a past that represented shame.
Xie Shuci returned to hold his hand, with a very complicated expression on his face, "I don't feel sorry for them, I just admire them, they have the courage to die willingly."
He seemed to still hold a sliver of hope, looked at Xiao Xun, and asked, "If, I mean if, if I die, will you come to find the reincarnated me?"
Xiao Xun's eyes were heavy, looking at Xie Shuci's hopeful eyes, his lips gradually stretched into a straight line, "You will not die, I will not let you die."
"What if?"
Xiao Xun's face turned a little cold, "Without what if, you won't die."
Xie Shuci was stunned, and hurriedly lowered his head, "I'm just asking, nothing else."
Xiao Xun looked at him straight, with a gloomy tone, "You must not have other intentions."
Xie Shuci waved his hands twice, "I know, I know."
Resting in the room for a while, Xie Shuci was going to go downstairs to carry the king up.
Perhaps it was because of that imperial decree that the entire inn was silent, Xie Shuci came to the lobby, and saw Fang Xunxue, who was dressed in purple, leaning against the door frame, looking quietly at Xingtie and the king outside the inn.
Looking at his thin back, Xie Shuci paused slightly. In fact, he doesn't know how to face Fang Xunxue now, because he is a person who is about to die, maybe he will have the same ending as him in a month, looking at him is like looking at himself not long ago.
Xie Shuci hesitated for a moment, thinking whether to go back to the room for a while before coming down, but Fang Xunxue in front of the door had already turned around, looking at him with a smile in his eyes.
"Young master." Fang Xunxue called out.
Now that he had been seen, Xie Shuci couldn't just walk away, so he had to lower his head and walk slowly to his side.
When he came to the side, Fang Xunxue slowly looked away and looked at the door.
"I made you laugh." Fang Xunxue said.
Xie Shuci seemed a little silent and shook his head.
Fang Xunxue smiled, looked at Xie Shuci again, and said, "My lord, Dongli will withdraw its troops tomorrow, so you can go out with us."
Xie Shuci's heart tightened, his throat was dry, he wanted to refuse, but in the face of Fang Xunxue's soft gaze, he couldn't say the words of refusal no matter what.
After a long time, Xie Shuci nodded slightly, "...OK."
Fang Xunxue asked with some doubts: "Young master, are you in a bad mood?"
"No." Xie Shuci glanced at him. Since receiving the imperial edict, Fang Xunxue has been extremely calm. On the contrary, Xie Shuci, an outsider, behaved much heavier than him.
Fang Xunxue laughed, "My lord, you are not suitable for lying."
The answer is written all over his face.
"What's on your mind?"
"……Um."
"Why don't you tell me? Anyway, I'm a dying person, and I'll take your words into the grave."
Xie Shuci couldn't help but look at his face more, and asked, "Aren't you scared at all?"
Although Xie Shuci felt that he was ready to face death, the fear of death in the bottom of his heart did not disappear immediately, and his heart would occasionally be empty for a while, especially after hearing Xie An's words.
Fang Xunxue's eyes gradually widened, and her expression became deeper, "It's not that I'm afraid of death, but I don't want to die."
Xie Shuci was taken aback.
Seeing Xie Shuci's dazed look, Fang Xunxue smiled, "Didn't you think so? Maybe I don't seem to have much attachment."
Xie Shuci was a bit embarrassed, Fang Xunxue seemed to have a sense of inscrutability, he thought that this kind of character didn't care about life and death at all, it turned out that he was the same as Xie Shuci, even if he was the best prepared to die, deep down in his heart Still want to live.
"Well, I thought you were like a hero, the kind who comes and goes like the wind." Xie Shuci said.
Fang Xunxue shook her head and said, "I like to live with warmth. I still have a lot of places I haven't visited, and I haven't seen a lot of things. I bought a good jade brocade in Shangjing and haven't had time to make clothes yet. The Luoyu Pavilion in Shangjing released several new hairpins, and I haven't had time to buy them yet."
At the end, he sighed and said, "I haven't met a single soulmate yet."
It seems that at this time, he has a layer of smoke and fire on his body, just like ordinary people.
His eyes were filled with a faint disappointment.
After a while, he smiled again and said, "No, it's not right either. It should be someone who is like-minded, but he is destined not to be mine."
Xie Shuci looked at him in surprise, and asked curiously: "Who is it? Aren't you two like each other? Why can't he be yours?"
Fang Xunxue pursed his lips and smiled. In the past, he was reluctant to mention this matter with others. Maybe it was because the letter of thanks was too easy for people to open their hearts, or maybe there would be no chance if they didn't say it. He said with a smile: "You think, Song Jiuying Why haven't you been punished for causing trouble in Shangjing without scruple?"
Xie Shuci opened his mouth wide in surprise, "Could it be...the emperor?"
Fang Xunxue lowered her eyes, pursed her lips and gave a "huh".
"Then he still..."
Xie Shuci finally did not continue, but Fang Xunxue understood what he meant.
He took Xie Shuci's hand, walked slowly to the table and sat down, poured each other a cup of tea, with a little warm light in his eyes, and said: "Don't blame him, I forced him to make this edict. "
Xie Shuci was even more dumbfounded, "You forced him?"
Fang Xunxue said: "He is the emperor, and I am a subject. To sacrifice a few of us to save the whole Qi Country is our best advantage. He is younger than me, and he is not bad at governing the country and the people, but he is too indecisive in terms of feelings. .”
I don't know what came to mind, Fang Xunxue suddenly smiled, and a soft light jumped into his eyes, "He, actually, is not my type. I like a clean young man like you, but he..."
Having said that, when this person was mentioned, Fang Xunxue's eyes brightened, which was different from him in normal times.
Xie Shuci nodded and said, "I understand."
At first, he also thought that he liked soft and sweet girls, but in the end he fell in love with a man, and he liked it to death.
"At the beginning, in my eyes, he was just a clever kid, but one day he suddenly grew up and bought me my favorite pearls, hairpins, dresses and jade brocades, and he would give me whatever I wanted. You still have to make trouble to make me queen." When talking about these things, Fang Xunxue had a sweet smile on his face.
"I didn't test the ten noodles he gave me at all. He just found a reason to go back."
Xie Shuci was stunned, and he was willing to die for the person he liked and his country, even if he was reluctant.
"I'll tell you a secret." Fang Xunxue said suddenly.
Xie Shuci blinked curiously, "What?"
"I never told anyone else's secret."
Xie Shuci lowered his upper body a little, "I promise, I will absolutely, absolutely not tell anyone else."
Fang Xunxue said: "He always said that I like too many people and I am too sentimental, but he doesn't know, in fact, I once got a monster's inner core, as long as I take the inner core, I can become a monk gone."
Xie Shuci said dumbly: "Monster inner core?"
"Well, by chance, Xingtie discovered it."
"Don't you like spiritual power? Didn't you subdue the monster's inner core?"
Fang Xunxue shook his head and said with a smile: "If I become a monk, I won't be able to stay in Qi Country anymore."
Xie Shuci stared at him blankly, "You..."
Fang Xunxue smiled, "Didn't expect that? He didn't think of it either, and I... didn't think of it either."
Xie Shuci didn't know what to say for a while.
"Since I told you my secret, shouldn't you also tell me my real name?" Fang Xunxue suddenly smiled.
"Ah?" Xie Shuci was stunned for a moment, then asked in surprise, "How do you know that my name is not real?"
"Do I look easy to deceive? You didn't respond when you called Mr. Deng a few times ago."
"Oh..." Xie Shuci smiled in embarrassment, "Then let me tell you, don't be afraid, I have absolutely no intention of hurting you."
Fang Xunxue laughed and said, "I believe in you."
Xie Shuci lowered his voice and said, "Actually, I am the one Free & Unfettered Sect wants to arrest. My name is Xie Shuci."
Fang Xunxue was surprised: "You are Xie Shuci? But I heard that Xie Shuci looks very ugly, and he is a heinous criminal."
Xie Shuci shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said, "I suspect they say that because they are jealous of my beauty, and I usually don't even dare to kill a chicken or a duckling."
Fang Xunxue opened his eyes wide in ignorance, with a little innocence in his eyes, "Didn't you kill the disciple of Free & Unfettered Sect?"
Xie Shuci's eyes fell, "The person I like almost died under his sword. If I don't kill him, he will kill us."
Fang Xunxue suddenly thought of something, "Then the people around you..."
Xie Shuci looked at him, but said nothing, and Fang Xunxue did not continue to ask.
Although he believed in Xie Shuci, the matter of Xie Shuci involved too much, and he shouldn't know too much.
Sitting in the lobby with Fang Xunxue for half an hour, Xiao Xun walked down the stairs with a dark face, Xie Shuci didn't stay any longer, and after a hasty farewell, the king who was about to yell for splits went back to the room.
The little guy, Dawang, was very clingy, he rubbed against the moving iron again and again, and said a few words, probably asking the master to continue teaching it tomorrow, but the moving iron didn't pay much attention to it at all.
Xie Shuci took the king back to his room, they didn't have any luggage to pack, and they could leave early tomorrow morning.
At night, there was a lot of people in the hotel lobby. The people in charge of Songjiu Battalion were the same as last night, drinking and eating meat and chatting about how happy they are, without feeling sad at all, as if they just need to go out for a long trip tomorrow and will come back.
Fang Xunxue asked someone to come up to invite Xie Shuci to join him. Xie Shuci himself has an irresistible temper. He was afraid that they would not respond at that time. Xie Shuci, an outsider, felt that it would be difficult to separate and spoil their atmosphere, so he refused. up.
The little guy, Dawang, didn't know what happened, so he greeted Xie Shuci, and then ran downstairs to guard his cheap master, yelling.
Xie Shuci stood by the window and looked down. Xingtie seemed to give some pointers to the king, and the king happily went up to rub it on the neck.
The little licking dog captured the heart of a high-cold senior after his invincible thick-skinned, cute, coquettish and cute series of tricks.
Xingtie is Fang Xunxue's mount, and he is famous for fighting with him, Dongliguo probably won't let it go.
Since Emperor Qi Country did not pursue Fang Xunxue's expulsion of people other than the nine heads of the Songjiu Battalion from Songjiu Battalion, it was probably because Dongli's condition for peace was only the lives of the nine heads of the Songjiu Battalion and the first beast.
How should tell the king then?
Xie Shuci not only sighed.
If it is placed before today, Xie Shuci will probably let the king stop the loss in time, and protect it by his side before he has established a deep relationship with Xingtie.
But Xie Shuci didn't do that, he didn't want the king to be wiped out of all wildness if he stayed by his side, and become a little licking dog who can be ordered around.
That night, everyone in Songjiu Battalion drank until dawn, and Xie Shuci didn't rest, sitting by the window and lying on the window, looking at the rising sun in the distance, wondering what he was thinking.
The king was tired from shouting last night, for the first time he did not return to Xie Shuci's side, but snuggled up to Senior Xingtie's side, and fell asleep deeply.
The whole Southwest Pass was eerily quiet, but it was brightly lit all night.
The high-spirited talk in the inn gradually calmed down after the sky brightened.
Xiao Xun stood behind Xie Shuci, looked at his blank expression, and asked, "Do you want to help them?"
Xie Shuci was stunned for a moment, not understanding why he said this, he turned his head slowly and looked at Xiao Xun.
Xiao Xun also looked at him.
Xie Shuci shook his head lightly and said, "I don't want to help them."
This is Fang Xunxue and Songjiu Battalion's own choice, they are willing to die, and they deserve to die.
Xie Shuci asked Xiao Xun to sit in the room for a while, and went downstairs to bring the king back.
The candles flickering in the lobby, leftovers and broken bowls are scattered everywhere, like the depression and loneliness left in place after a feast is over and the guests leave.
The others fell to the ground in disarray and fell into a deep sleep, the sound of breathing one after another was like the exhaustion after every banquet.
Fang Xunxue was sitting by the window alone, still wearing the purple gauze dress she wore yesterday, looking out of the window calmly, with a hint of confusion and daze between her brows.
Probably because he noticed Xie Shuci's gaze, he looked sideways, and the almond eyes reflected the hazy sunlight, outlining a faint smile, as if full of affection, and said with a smile: "Young master, please wait a moment, let them Sleep a little longer."
Xie Shuci's heart seemed to be grabbed by someone, and his throat was very astringent.
If he hadn't known Fang Xunxue before, he would probably just sigh in his heart when he heard about it, and then forget about it. But he got to know Fang Xunxue and other people in Songjiu Battalion. These living people can laugh, talk, have warmth, and are lifelike, but maybe in the near future, their lives will disappear.
Xie Shuci always felt that he had experienced so many things and was used to seeing life and death, and had already lost his awe of life, but at this moment Xie Shuci clearly realized that he did not.
In the face of these fresh lives, he still feels regret and respect.
Xie Shuci opened his lips as if he wanted to say something, but there seemed to be something blocked in his throat, and even his heart felt stuffy.
It is impossible to judge good or bad and right or wrong.
Dong Liguo agreed to withdraw his troops, and exchanged the lives of nine of them for the stability of the two countries. Is this wrong?
That's right.
Even, this decision is undoubtedly wise.
Xie Shuci walked up to the king silently, and saw the king lying on the iron belly, drooling and sleeping, and knew nothing about what was about to happen.
Xie Shuci's eyes were a little sore, he bent down, and gently put his hands on Xingtie's belly, Xingtie lowered his head, and looked at Xie Shuci with the same calm eyes as its owner.
"Thank you." Xie Shu said.
He picked up the king from it.
Xing Tie propped up his upper body, lowered his head and licked the hair on the king's back, as if he was grooming his own child, and there was a trace of love in his usually calm eyes.
At that moment, Xie Shuci didn't know what to think of, and put his hand on Xingtie's body in a strange way, and a ray of spiritual power poured into its body from the palm of his hand.
Fang Xunxue once said that Xingtie discovered a monster inner core...it also discovered the identity of the king...if it was an ordinary beast, it would never be easy to do these two points!
When he felt the disordered spiritual power in Xingtie's body, Xie Shuci's heart was touched, and his eyes turned red almost instantly.
Line iron is not without inner core...it is...self-destructed inner core...
……why?
Because, once the inner core is cultivated, do you have to leave the master and the Qi Country?
Xing Tie combed the hair on the king's back with his tongue, then quietly lay down on the ground, waiting for the sun to rise completely from the horizon.
After sitting in the room for less than an hour, Fang Xunxue sent someone to find Xie Shuci and told him that it was time to leave.
The waiter brought the crane and the carriage out from the backyard, Xie Shuci woke up the king, the king raised his head from his arms dimly, looked at his father, then at the Songjiu Battalion people who were all ready to go, and at Fang Xunxue who was quietly standing beside Fang Xunxue The walking iron tilted his head in doubt.
"Oh?"
Do ligers want to go with us? Great! It just so happened that the baby hadn't learned how to bark with a bit more momentum.
Chenshi was supposed to be the busiest hour of the day.
The streets should be full of people coming and going, but today's Southwest Pass is unusually quiet.
The winter wind blows through the deserted streets, which inevitably looks much more depressed.
Wearing a big cloak, Fang Xunxue turned over and stepped on the wolf's back. Behind him, each of the eight masters got on their horses. Xie Shuci's carriage was at the end. Under the watchful eyes of the waiter with tears in his eyes, a group of people marched forward with great arrogance. Southwest Pass is the last closed gate.
"Have you had enough?" Fang Xunxue asked from the front.
"Enough!"
"Have you eaten enough?"
"Enough!"
"Have you had enough sleep?"
"Enough sleep!"
"Then let's..." Fang Xunxue's voice paused for a moment, and when he spoke again, his voice was firm and steady: "...it's time to go!"
"It's time to hit the road!"
The team with only nine people in front is mighty and magnificent, and it can rival a million-strong army one or two.
There were still dozens of Songjiu Battalion when they came, but today, there are only nine of them left, but their momentum has not diminished in the slightest.
The king pulled the carriage and walked side by side with the crane. It looked at the nine people in front of it blankly, and felt very strange. What are they talking about?
The sound of horseshoes sounded like thunder in the empty streets.
The people of Southwest Pass seemed to have a tacit understanding, and no one appeared on the street to see them off for the last time.
They probably knew that this group of hateful bandit soldiers did not want to see their tears, nor did they want to be surrounded by them.
"Third son, do you think the little prince will miss you in the future? When we went out that day, I saw him secretly hiding behind the city gate and dropping golden beans." A big man with a knife teased.
Xie Shuci still remembers that the third head of Songjiu Battalion kidnapped a young prince and went home to be a storyteller for himself, and was punished by the emperor.
"He expects me to die."
Xie Shuci lifted the curtain, and the person who spoke was a man with strong physique and sharp edges.
A group of people seemed to be unaware of what was waiting for them in front of them, and they were still talking and laughing happily.
In the end, don't know who started it, and the group hummed a catchy song. Xie Shuci listened carefully and found that the song was about the private affairs of men and women, just like a group of disciples.
All the way out of the market, their songs did not stop.
Amidst the singing of obscene words, Xie Shuci heard the faint sound of wailing from the street behind him.
The cold wind blew their robes, facing the rising sun in mid-air, humming a little song comfortably, and approaching the last gate of the Southwest Pass step by step.
Outside the city gate, there were countless soldiers from Dongli who had been waiting for a long time.
"stop."
Walking in front of the city gate, Fang Xunxue, who was at the front, raised her hand to stop everyone.
He drove the traveling iron and walked to Xie Shuci's carriage.
The king was keenly aware of something, stomped his feet uneasily, his eyes glistened, and when Xing Tie and Fang Xunxue approached, he immediately moved to Xing Tie's side and rubbed his head uneasily against Xing Tie's neck.
"Aw!"
Liger...
Xingtie responded to it, and the king burst into tears.
Fang Xunxue looked at Xie Shuci, and said softly: "Young Master, this is the Southwest Pass. The last pass in the southwest of Daqi, please wait here with the young master for a while, and leave directly after Dongli withdraws his troops. "
Xie Shuci glanced at him, "Okay, thank you."
Fang Xunxue nodded, then smiled at Xie Shuci, and said, "Shuci, I never expected to meet you at the last time, I feel both lucky and regretful, but most of all it should be luck. "
Xie Shuci squeezed out a smile, "It's not a pity, it's not a pity at all."
Fang Xunxue laughed, and said again: "I heard that your experience will be recorded in a book of strange stories, and everyone in Kyushu will circulate this book. Will this experience be recorded?"
Xie Shuci's heart felt uncomfortable, "I assure you, it will happen."
"Great."
Fang Xunxue turned around, looked at the eight people in front, and shouted loudly: "Everyone, grab your weapons, it's time for us to hit the road!"
"Yes!"
Xie Shuci was stunned for a moment, then leaned out and grabbed his arm, "You still want to resist?"
Fang Xunxue looked back and smiled, his eyes were like melting snow, "Yeah, since you can't die anyway, you have to die on the territory of Qi Country."
His calm words seemed like a storm rolled up the gas flowing in Xie Shuci's body. He looked into Fang Xunxue's eyes and felt the trembling from the depths of his soul.
Xie Shuci couldn't describe the shock that this sentence brought to him.
He let go of Fang Xunxue's hand, his body was in a daze, and he almost fell off the carriage. Behind him, Xiao Xun quickly grabbed his arm and brought him back into the carriage.
"Everyone, it's time to go out."
"Grandson, grandpa, here I come!"
The city gate made a heavy sound and slowly opened to both sides.
The sound of horseshoes galloped away, and their figures gradually drifted away.
"Boom!"
On the high wall, a drum roar pierced the sky.
Xie Shuci looked up, and on the city wall, dozens of soldiers were beating their war drums, and following the figures of the Song Jiu Battalion going away, they composed a high-spirited and solemn tune.
Listening to it from a distance, it sounds like a song that breaks the formation.