chasing autumn

The next day, in the afternoon, in the Nether Hall.

In a large room that is rarely seen in this building, where a lot of sunlight can penetrate, Zhan Hao sat at a wooden table covered with brocade, and looked at the people around him with concern. I haven't seen you for 20 years. Qiuniang's appearance and figure are the same Compared with the appearance that often appears in his mind, there is almost no change, no need for heavy makeup, no need for pearls and jade, still beautiful, gentle and pleasant. Perhaps it is because he has missed her too much and too often over the years, and now he sits quietly in front of him The person in front of him made him feel dazed for a while, unable to tell whether it was an illusion or real.

Does 20 years seem like a dream? This dream has too many changes and too many costs.

Today's Qiuniang has lost the serenity and smile that used to always hang on the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, but there is a touch of wandering and helplessness and vicissitudes. Zhan Hao sighs: Even now that you have found me, this feeling of instability , in your heart, does it still exist? Just like the light that flashed in your eyes when I rescued you from the Song and Liao battlefields, you said you were homeless and no one cared about you... I remember I promised , will give you a happy and stable home, and will find your hometown, your relatives, and your roots for you.I also remember that you often said that no matter life is good or bad, as long as the family is together, there will be happiness and happiness.I broke my promise! ...The accident 20 years ago, your family was ruined and your family was destroyed, which caused you to be displaced. Looking for a person who escaped from prison like me, how could there be so many difficulties and dangers...Now we are reunited, but you just sit quietly like this Don't look at me, don't ask me.What is between you and me, is it that I have changed and made you feel strange?is that so?

I don't know how long I sat and stared at it for a long time, Zhan Hao came back to his senses, and glanced at the untouched food and wine on the table, "Qiu Niang..."

Qiuniang didn't answer, she just averted her gaze and looked at the scenery outside the window.

Zhan Hao originally wanted to say a lot in his heart, but at this moment he didn't know where to start, hesitating, "...our child, is he still there?..."

"He's dead." As if deliberately emphasizing this point, Qiuniang turned her head to look at Zhan Hao, her eyes were full of bitterness, "He died 20 years ago, in Zhaojia Village."

"It was me, I sent him to hell with my own hands..." Zhan Hao's eyes sparkled, his voice choked up.

"You don't need to apologize, it's not your fault." Seeing the sadness in his eyes, Qiuniang couldn't bear it, she kept the matter of leaving her orphan behind, but she didn't want to have another innocent child like Huolian.

"...It is a blessing for you to be able to escape from that purgatory. I really want to thank the worldly master of Qishan Yaolu for leaving me a relative in this world." Zhan Hao gently held Qiuniang's hand, " If it weren't for you and me to hide our names, our husband and wife could have met earlier..."

"If we meet sooner, you won't be the Nether King, will you?"

"Qiu Niang..." Zhan Hao showed a look of embarrassment on his face, and he breathed a sigh of relief, "The secret room built at the border sub-helm back then has the same structure as the secret room in the general's mansion. It was originally intended to be a refuge in case of emergency. It’s useful, I didn’t expect…”

"Now you trust me..." Qiuniang felt sad, his cautiousness had accidentally led her to find her hometown, it was an act of God.

"20 years ago... who faked you? Why did you fake it?"

"I don't know..." Qiuniang avoided his gaze, got up and walked to the window, "...it's not important, if someone hadn't died for me, I'm still wanted, so I'm afraid You can't wander for so many years without the government coming to look for you."

"These years, it's really hard for you..."

When Qiuniang heard this, she suddenly felt upset, she turned around and looked at him, her words were a little excited, "You know that these years of hard work and wandering are hard for me, why don't you think that your plan of instigating you is hard for your child ?”

Zhan Hao stood up, "Qiu Niang...Huo Lian is..."

"He is an abandoned baby you picked up, I know, the hunchback has already told me." Qiu Niang looked at Zhan Hao in disbelief, "Even if there is no blood relative, but father and son have known each other for 20 years, it is considered destined. How do you Have the heart?"

Zhan Hao stood with his hands behind his back, "There are more than 100 people in Zhan's family and more than [-] people in Zhaojia Village. They cannot die unjustly. I want the Zhao Dynasty to atone for this crime!"

"Could it be that when you picked up Huolian back then, you wanted to give him a complicated and heavy life experience, and want him to bear the grievances of the Zhan family? Zhan Hao, Huolian has nothing to do with this matter, he is innocent!"

"Since he is my child, this is his responsibility." Zhan Hao's eyes flashed, as if he was trying to avoid something, and he walked towards the door, "I will give you an answer to some things in the future. Now... After pondering for a while, he suddenly felt unable to continue, and silently crossed the threshold,

The two white-clothed guards at the door saw that Qiuniang was going to follow Zhan Hao out of the house, and immediately stopped them, "Madam, please don't make things difficult for your subordinates."

Qiuniang immediately understood, turned to Zhan Hao's back, and wept sadly: "Now, this room is specially chosen for me by you, are you going to detain me like the Liao people?!... This is the room you gave me. My promise?!"

Reluctantly playing tricks, two places are heartbroken.

In an octagonal pavilion next to the mountain in the Nether Hall, there are many empty wine jars standing on stone tables. Zhan Hao looks at the mountain scenery outside the pavilion, standing with his hands behind his back, his nerves are still numb and awake. drunk.Ordinarily, Qiuniang is his only relative in this world, and also his only lover. Now that he lost it, he was overjoyed, but he couldn't be happier: I owe her too much, and I can't let her take another risk. Now, I, What else could he do besides keeping her by his side to protect her?

Just as he was thinking, familiar footsteps and a clear voice came from behind him: "Father! You are looking for me..."

As Yu Huolian said, seeing the wine jar on the table and smelling the overwhelming smell of alcohol, she thought to herself that her father must have remembered the past of hatred again.Looking at his back that has become more and more sad and thin over the years, I felt a pain in my heart for a while.

"I heard," Zhan Hao had already recovered his normal state, turned around slowly, and said in a cold voice, "Did you stab the magpie for the sake of Du Qingyun's family?"

Yu Huolian was startled when she heard this, and looked at her father's cloudy face, horrified in her heart, her gaze wandered, and she hurriedly bowed her head in response.He suddenly remembered that when he was 14 years old, his father asked him to compete with many masters under his sect, saying that he wanted to test what he had learned.At that time, he missed and seriously injured the magpie, which made Dad fly into a rage. He was beaten and scolded, but he rarely saw Dad get so angry.In Yu Huolian's impression, although the affiliation is the same, Zhan Hao's treatment of magpies is very different from that of Qian Fu, who is deserted.He only recently found out that Magpie is the widow of his father's sworn brother Li Shi.

"Do you remember how many scars you have on your body?"

Just as she was thinking, Huo Lian didn't know what to say when she heard her father's sudden question, "Children who practice martial arts naturally have many injuries on their bodies, so it's not surprising."

"These years, how harsh my father has been to you..."

"Father!" Before Zhan Hao finished speaking, Huo Lian had already felt the deep sadness in his words, "I know that it is for my own good that Father is strict with me, and I can repay the favor of the family as soon as I grow up. Shen Yuan, father, my child understands."

Do you really understand, Zhan Hao thought in his heart, walking slowly in front of Huo Lian,

"Then do you know how many wounds Weifu has on his body?"

Huo Lian was startled when she heard this, and looked up to see Zhan Hao's bloodshot eyes due to the previous grief, that kind of deep sorrow immediately soaked into her heart, and her chest felt cold for a while. For 20 years, he grew up counting his father's sorrow and pain, and every time he grew up, he thought that he could share a little more pain for his father.But he always felt that there were some corners of his father's heart that he was not allowed to touch.Perhaps because of this, he still couldn't shoulder the pain, and could only watch his father's figure become more and more desolate.

"Mortal people are indeed incompetent. Some wounds cannot be seen and cannot be healed. We can only let them bleed and fester..."

"father……"

"Cold in the cold!"

Behind the main hall of Youming Hall, Leng Qing was about to walk along the dirt road in the grass, but was stopped by a white-clothed guard who suddenly appeared from nowhere, immediately felt dissatisfied, and said bitterly: "Why, just rely How dare you stand in my way?!"

"You dare not!" The white-clothed guard saluted respectfully, "This small road goes around, but it is just an abandoned house. The suzerain has recently repaired it, and wants to use it to store weapons and medicines. If there is someone in the cold If you are not interested, let your subordinates lead the way..."

Leng Qing looked at the guard in white, his star eyes lowered for a while.He knew that the suzerain hated other people's interference in his activities and tampering with his things.There was so much fear in my heart, before he finished speaking, Lengqing snorted disdainfully at the white-clothed guard, turned and left, thinking while walking, I have stayed in Infernal Affairs for more than ten years, and I have no impression of this small road ... How strange!

On weekdays, Yuxiangzhai is always very quiet in the early morning, and the girls who have been busy all night have to rest.But early this morning, Du Fu called someone to prepare washing water.

After a while, Jin Ying came into the room with a basin of hot water, and saw Du Fu sitting at the table with her elbows propped up, wondering what she was thinking so preoccupied.He put the water away carefully, and asked a few casual questions, but Du Fu didn't answer.He curled his lips, wondering why Miss Du got up so early today, the sun really came out from the west, and just about to step over the threshold, she suddenly heard a noise from inside the room.

"Snapped!"

Du Fu slapped the table, as if he suddenly understood something, crossed his arms in front of his chest angrily,

"So he just came to drink with me?!"

"Oh, Ms. Li, you are back. You should go and have a look. Ms. Du doesn't know what's wrong. She was talking to herself in the room early in the morning. She was very godlike. She didn't know what she was talking about. What kind of evil did you fall into?"

"Bewitched?" Li Bai, who had just returned from Fang's house, looked tired, and was about to take a rest, but was quarreled by Jin Jing again, so he hurriedly followed him to see Du Fu, thinking in his heart: I just finished accompanying Fang Li. Sad, what happened to you again?Could it be because of that Yu Huolian?Really, what's so good about this Yu Huolian?The head is not as big as Fang Xu's, it looks much worse no matter how you look at it!To actually make two women feel sad and emotional for him at the same time, hey, I don't understand, I don't understand!

"hateful!"

Just as Li Bo was about to open the door and enter the room, he heard Du Fu slapping the table and shouting inside. He couldn't help but look at Jin Zhe in surprise, and Jin Zhe nodded quickly.Li Bai thought: "Who is Du Fu talking about?"Say Yu Huolian?No way, doesn't she like him very much?Could it be that she was talking about Fang Li?

"Little Fu!"

"Xiao Bai! You're here!" When Du Fu saw Li Bai coming, she hurried over and pulled her to sit down. After all, she is a good sister who has shared weal and woe for so many years, so she has nothing on her mind that she can't tell Li Bai, "I'm so mad! I'm so mad!..." Just as he was about to open his mouth, he caught a glimpse of Jin Zing who came in with Li Bai and wanted to hear the story, and said coldly, "Jin Zing, you can go!"

"Oh……"

Li Bai glanced at the door, "Okay, okay, there's no one else, you can talk now!"

"I, Du Fu, have never suffered such a great humiliation!"

"What happened?"

"What does he think my Shang He Xuan is? Is it a tavern? If you have money, you can come in and out with a big swagger? Come and leave whenever you want?"

"Who are you talking about? Yu Huolian?"

"Apart from him, who else?"

Li Bai looked at her in disbelief, and raised his hand to cover her forehead, "Have you figured it out? You, you don't have a fever, do you?"

"Oh! I don't have a fever!" Du Fu waved her hand away, "I, Du Fu, am not a scenery on the side of the road, I can just look at it if I want! Every day and night, many princes and princes come here with a lot of money, Just to take a look at me and make me smile, but if you can’t match the lines and win my favor, then it’s all in vain! Although I don’t know why my mother readily allows him to come in and look for me every time, but I, Du Fu, too Dignified! How can you be trampled on like this!"

"Little Fu, it's great that you think so!" Li Bai saw that the little sister had finally recovered from the frowning faces of the past few days, and returned to her usual look, feeling extremely happy in her heart!Although she was also sad when she heard about Fang Li's experience from Fang Xu, she also sympathized with Xiao Li and Yu Huolian's inexplicably dead relationship when she saw Xiao Li tearfully saying that she would go through this sadness.But she understood from the beginning to the end that Du Fu's side was just a shaving head, and he would get hurt sooner or later. When she saw her worrying about him, it was really not worth it for her.Suddenly an idea came to mind, "I have an appointment with Miss Fang, who is Fang Xu's younger sister. Tomorrow, I will go to the temple fair. Why don't you come too! Go out and relax, and you won't feel so depressed!"

"Okay! I haven't gone out for a long time either!"

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