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Ling Xun was shocked physically and mentally, but he held back and didn't look back, he just asked dryly, "Huaifeng knows what I'm thinking?"

"A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. The road here is narrow and steep, and there are often gravels falling. It is not a place to talk. Please move, my lord." After Mu Jiu finished speaking, he backed away slightly and distanced himself from Ling Xun. .

There was no longer any warm body temperature pressing behind him, and Ling Xun's feeling of rapid heartbeat slowed down, so he had to move forward again.Because he had a vague premonition of what Mu Jiu was going to say to him, he was restless and didn't speak. The two of them silently walked together until Zhongli Gan was sent to Liu Ma.

Ling Xun made an excuse, "I haven't played chess with Huaifeng for a long time." After speaking, he went straight to the courtyard where Mu Jiu lived, and Mu Jiu followed closely behind him.

After the two of them were alone in the room without any other disturbance, Ling Xun sat down at the seat reserved for chess games with Mu Jiu, separated the pieces scattered on the chessboard into black and white one by one, and put them in boxes.

"Huifeng has something to say to me, and he knows what's on my mind, so he should be able to say it now?" When Ling Xun spoke, his tone seemed very casual.

Mu Jiu looked at Ling Xun, those penetrating eyes were like two bottomless pools of water.

When Ling Xun was watched by him like this, his heart seemed to be grabbed by someone suddenly, and he subconsciously squeezed the chess piece in his hand that he would not let go in the future.

Mu Jiu bowed down, bowed to Ling Xun first, and then said slowly: "In the early spring of this year, shopkeeper Yue sent someone to Jingzhou to investigate my father. Does my lord know about this?"

Ling Xun didn't answer, but his complexion was a little paler than before, and he continued to arrange the collected chess pieces on the chessboard one by one, without any rules, just arranging them line by line aimlessly.

Mu Jiu didn't have to wait for Ling Xun's answer, and continued: "Then shopkeeper Yue must have told the lord about my father. Someone revealed that the letter that General Ling colluded with Tanlang back then was secretly submitted to Qin Chao by my father."

Originally, apart from Mu Jiu's voice in the room, there was only the sound of chess pieces falling on the chessboard one by one, but at some point, the sound of the falling pieces disappeared, and only Ling Xun stared at the chessboard without moving, and the two hands on his lap His fists were clenched white.

It was as if the extremely tense bowstring was suddenly broken, and the solemnity accumulated in the room was also severely broken in an instant. With only a bang, Ling Xun directly overturned the chessboard.The black and white chess pieces rolled all over the ground, and even a lot of chess pieces hit Mu Jiu's body, hitting his head and face, but he didn't dodge the slightest bit, he just endured it silently.

"Why do you have to tell me? I obviously never asked you anything, why do you still tell me!" Ling Xun was so angry that his eyes were red, he rushed over and grabbed Mu Jiu's lapel in two or three steps, "The witnesses and testimonies are all complete. Yes, what reason do you have to excuse? Can you still excuse? "

Mu Jiu and Ling Xun looked at each other without avoiding their eyes.

"Mu Jiu has no excuse." He said frankly.

Ling Xun's questioning just now, is it not just a matter of luck?Although what he said was categorical, in his heart he hoped that Mu Jiu could give a thorough explanation, even if it was just made up by him, he would be able to find a reason to deceive himself.However, Mu Jiu didn't refute even a word, completely shattering the last hope in Ling Xun's heart.

Ling Xun laughed, "Okay, okay, okay. The son of the enemy, you are the son of my enemy, kill my whole family, and kill my whole family! Have you ever thought about how we will face each other after you admit this? ? Do we... have a future to look forward to?"

He said hello three times in a row, but the smile on Ling Xun's face was extremely tragic. There were tears in his eyes, and he held his breath to keep the tears from falling.

"If I don't admit it, will my lord not be suspicious of me?" Mu Jiu asked back, "The wedding is approaching, so is it possible that my lord wants to have a estrangement from me?"

Ling Xun was silent for a long time, and then gently curled the corners of his lower lips, "Yeah, even the darkest things will be uncovered one day. If they are stuffy inside, they will rot and stink sooner or later. But now that they are uncovered, As usual, it was completely unrecognizable and bloody."

"Young Qi!" Seeing that Ling Xun was about to leave, Mu Jiu got up and blocked the door.

"Mu Jiu, we're done, this time I have nothing to do..." Ling Xun shook his head with a wry smile, and began to cry with a smile, "You go, leave my side."

Mu Jiu took a deep breath, fixed his gaze on Ling Xun, "Since I am the son of an enemy, why didn't my lord kill me and avenge the Ling family?"

"There is a wrong and a debtor. At that time, you were only a child under ten years old. What's the use of killing you?"

"My lord also said that I was only less than ten years old. I didn't even know what my father did. How can I intervene? How can I choose?" Mu Jiu's voice trembled slightly when he said this, and he flicked his sleeve. , called the white jade paperweight carved with alfalfa patterns on the table, and handed it to Ling Xun, "Since you are destined to anger me for something that I can't decide, why do you want to give me words? Why do you want to be with me?" Become a destined person?"

Ling Xun didn't understand what Mu Jiu's words of "given words" meant, but felt that the white jade paperweight was slightly cold in his hand, and it seemed to be heavy in his hands, and his heart seemed to be weighed down.When he played with this paperweight for the first time, he only noticed the engravings on it, and knew that it was related to his "Huaifeng" brand name, but now he touched the bottom of the paperweight, and there were also uneven lines, so he turned the paperweight over and took a closer look. Only then did I realize that there was a word engraved on it.

That is the word "Xun" in seal script.

Ling Xun stared at the word in a daze.

In order not to make him suspicious, Mu Jiu lied that he had never seen Ling Xun in the General's Mansion before, and that his father Mu Yin was just an ordinary retainer.But things have come to this, what else do not understand?Mu Yin is not an ordinary student, but a confidant of General Zhennan. When Mu Jiu was studying, he was looking for someone to pick up characters, but a young child who was just learning language pointed to the bonsai of alfalfa and called Huaifeng. , a young boy who can pick up characters for the son of the general's confidant, who else can there be?

Ling Xun has always known that there is a person in Mu Jiu's heart, who is the one who picks up the characters for him. He never thought that the person he once cared about... was actually himself.

"My lord must think that my father harmed you, and I went to save you because I know you are my five-element match, and I can't bear you to die and miss the opportunity to improve your formation skills? Or maybe, this is simply our father and son's plan." The trap?" Mu Jiu laughed at himself, "My father was already dead when the incident happened in the Zhennan General's mansion. I took advantage of the fire to sneak into the mansion and rescue the lord. I have my own reasons. It's just this reason, for the lord. , probably not worth mentioning at all.”

After Mu Jiu finished speaking, footsteps came from outside the door, and it was Jin Yan who ran over with an anxious expression on his face.

"Mr. Mu, go down the mountain and have a look. The protective circle you set up was demolished by Mr. Wu, and you are going to replace it with a strange technique. The students of the academy stepped forward to stop it, and got into a fight with some old bandit leaders." The conflict is about to break out."

So Mu Jiu bid farewell to Ling Xun and wanted to go out.

Ling Xun finally came to his senses, he couldn't tell what was in his heart, he wanted to follow up, and when he saw Mu Jiu looking back, he looked away, and found a high-sounding reason for himself, "I'll go and see with you , so as not to cause trouble."

So the two walked down the mountain together along the way they came from. On the way, Ling Xun suddenly asked Mu Jiu: "How old was Huaifeng when he entered the general's mansion with his father?"

"Six years old."

"It happened to be the year I was born. So Huaifeng met me." The latter sentence is not a question, but more like what Ling Xun said to himself.

A lush jujube tree happened to pass by halfway up the mountain. When Mu Jiu was still some distance away from the jujube tree, he couldn't help but take a second look.

Back then, under such a jujube tree with luxuriant branches and leaves, Princess Wuyang sat on a bamboo couch holding her new son Zhennan, who was only a few months old, and waved to him with a smile.

Mu Jiu cautiously walked towards Princess Wuyang, like a little beast that has endured all kinds of hardships in the deep mountains. When seeing any living thing, he must first take some precautions.However, unlike the beast cub, he seems to have had the talent to hide his heart since he was a child. Therefore, despite the evil spirits in his heart, he still looks like a gentle child praised by adults on the outside.

Princess Wuyang was really happy to see Mu Jiu, and took a candied fruit from the porcelain bowl and put it into his mouth. Mu Jiu obediently took the candied fruit, but habitually did not dare to swallow it, but quietly pressed it against his tongue. He didn't even dare to swallow a little saliva, he just waited for someone not to pay attention, and then found a place to spit out the candied fruit and rinse his mouth.

It's not that he doesn't like candied fruit, on the contrary, he loves the sweet and sour taste very much, but because he has been wary of being poisoned since he was a child, he has already become a habit and never dares to eat things that have been in the hands of others.Just like many other things, he obviously likes it very much, but he often cannot ask for it.

Princess Wuyang naturally didn't know that Mu Jiucai was only five or six years old, and he was so guarded. Seeing that he liked candied fruit, she just pushed the porcelain bowl with candied fruit into his arms and let him drink it by himself. He ate slowly, and then lowered his head to shake and tease his infant son.

Mu Jiu was curious, wondering what kind of treasure was in the cloth package, worthy of Princess Wuyang's preciousness, so she moved closer, only to see a white and tender jade doll, the jade doll had her eyes closed, waiting for Mu Jiu When looking at him, he didn't know if he also felt it, but he opened his dark eyes and grinned at him.

That was the first time Mu Jiu saw Ling Xun, and he never imagined that he would face this little thing day and night for many days and nights in the future.

However, what Mu Jiu never imagined was that in this world, the word "mother" can be so gentle.