nine words

Chu Jiuge loves Xun Sui deeply, and Xu Changqing has always believed in this, so he never considered whether Chu Jiuge would come back.

He was just worried about his injury. After Xun Sui left, it was Yu Jingnian who took him away. Whether the general who was born and died and never cared about his health could do things like changing the dressing well.

But it turns out that even Yu Jingnian can take good care of the wounded as long as he wants to do it.

"Isn't it a little unwise for you to go to Qi at this time?" Yu Jingnian asked.

The cold wind messed up Chu Jiuge's untied black hair. Looking at the distant town, his eyes were full of confusion and expectations.He used to be a national teacher, but he didn't want to divination for himself, because he knew that his destiny was never in this great world, and every step he took, he had no room to turn back. He didn't want to survive, but to be worthy.

"Are you afraid?"

Chu Jiuge shook his head, and looked up at the sky covered by haze. The dark clouds piled up, as if they were going to shroud the earth in darkness forever.

Not to mention whether Qi Huanyu could give him the answer he wanted, just because this person is not a good person, I am afraid it is even worse than Xun Sui.He didn't succeed, just because he didn't have power in his hands, even if he was given the entire Qi State, the country was weak and the people were weak, he still couldn't compete with Xun Sui.

From the beginning, Chu Jiuge knew that Xu Changqing was useless. He was not like Yu Jingnian and Xue Wuhua. He lost his fighting spirit when he was defeated. Even if he became a minister, he didn't want to make any resistance. Is tired of breaking free from the shackles of fate.As for Xu Changqing, his ambition is only limited to seizing the throne, not the world. The only thing he hates in his heart is the prince who pushed himself into the boundless hell. Therefore, even if he surrenders, he does not resist too much.

But Qi Huanyu was different.

Chu Jiuge knows better than anyone that the split personality cannot be cured, and it will only become more and more serious. If there is no strong enemy to contend with, even if the world is unified, it will definitely be pervaded by bloody storms.

Sui Sui is very strong, he never denies this, because he personally supported him step by step to where he is today, but he forgot to leave a way out for himself, how to control him.If Xun Sui really goes crazy one day, then there must be someone who can restrain his actions.

Naturally, this person cannot be him, Chu Jiuge. In the final analysis, he is just a literati, and all he can do is to make suggestions, and there must be a strong enemy to match him, because only a sense of crisis can make people stay calm.

"It's getting dark, why don't you just spend the night nearby and enter the city tomorrow."

Chu Jiuge nodded, and pointed to the forest not far away, "If I remember correctly, there should be a temple over there."

Yu Jingnian responded, helped Chu Jiuge onto the horse, took the rein and walked towards the forest.

Although it was late autumn at this time, it wasn't bitterly cold, and the trees didn't lose all their leaves. Yu Jingnian thought that the trees withered because they couldn't stand the sudden drop in temperature. He didn't want to take a closer look. Those poplars with strong vitality, It's already dead.

Seeing this scene, Chu Jiuge jumped off the horse, caressed the dead wood without a trace of moisture, and sighed: "Under the troubled times, not only people, but everything in the world... has no way out."

Chu Jiuge’s heartache is also Yu Jingnian’s helplessness. The world is difficult, and it’s not easy to just survive. How can anyone take care of these poor trees? Let it rain.

Chu Jiuge led the way, passing through the small path that was sometimes blocked by dead branches. When Yu Jingnian turned around and led the horse around the roadblocks, he almost bumped into Chu Jiuge, who had already stopped.

The latter looked devoutly at the ruined temple, his eyes full of nostalgia and desolation.

The once magnificent Great Buddha Temple has now fallen into this situation.Sad, really sad...

"I remember that Qi Huanyu ordered me to be arrested. At that time, I had nowhere to go, so I had to hide in this Buddhist temple. In fact, I didn't report that I was lucky enough to escape. I know that Qi Huanyu is also the only Fate is obedience, even if it is a Buddhist temple, I am afraid that it will not be able to keep me. But the host, without any fear, hid me in the space under the Buddha statue and escaped Qi Huanyu's pursuit."

In fact, no one could bear to let Chu Jiuge, who was beaten and injured all over, flee away.Although the host is a Buddhist, he also knows the general trend of the world.The last war was in the 13th year of Shengqian, when Ulan invaded the Central Plains on a large scale. At that time, the young abbot was still practicing martial arts in Shaolin Temple. In the current situation, even the sects of Jianghu rose up to resist. The abbot and all his brothers shouted "Buddha If you don’t save the world, I will save it!”, went to the battlefield and started killing, not only Shaolin and other Jianghu sects, but Ulan and other countries in the Central Plains were also seriously injured.

I thought that I would never be able to experience large-scale wars again in this life, but I didn't expect that in just a few decades, the Central Plains would have no leader, and the Seven Kingdoms would be in chaos again.

Although the presiding officer broke the precept of killing, he also heard the old monk of Shaolin Temple say that there is such an exiled immortal who "lives in Kunlun, drinks in Wangchuan, plays the guqin, and sighs among the flowers", he can stop the war and save the world.

I'm afraid it's the man in white in front of me.

Chu Jiuge spent half a month recovering from his injuries in the Great Buddha Temple. He never mentioned his past to the host, even what happened in Qi State, he didn't mention a word, he just expressed his inner emotions with the sound of the piano.

If he hadn't seen him kneeling in front of the Buddha statue and crying so hard that he almost lost his breath, the host would have thought he was dumb.

Yu Jingnian tied up his horse and gently pushed open the temple gate. Looking at the messy items in the temple, he could also imagine what kind of catastrophe the place had experienced at that time.Chu Jiuge was injured, and it was very strenuous to step over the piled debris, so Yu Jingnian gently picked him up, keeping his feet only a foot off the ground, for fear of hurting the knife wound on Chu Jiuge's waist.

The meditation room was also in a mess, thick dust had accumulated several inches, it seemed that it had been abandoned since Chu Jiuge left here.Yu Jingnian brushed the dust off the wooden chair with his sleeve, let Chu Jiuge sit down, and then went looking for something useful.

Chu Jiuge remembered that he was recuperating in this Zen room at that time, and the host often came to talk with him, even if he didn't say a word, but he knew that the host was also a rare person who could listen to him.

Although, he couldn't say it, and didn't want to say it.

But he got along very well with the little monk who came to bring him meals every day. The two often sat together. He listened to him recite scriptures and watched him be punished to copy scriptures. The latter always pulled a bitter face and complained : "Why do I always get punished."

...Where did that child go now?

Chu Jiuge knew that he didn't know, but he had a hunch that the little monk hadn't gone far... But who is he and where is he?

Suddenly, Chu Jiuge felt that he had forgotten a lot of things again, and his eyes were wet with sadness, and he even hoped that he could be relieved from it.

Yu Jingnian had been busy in the back kitchen for a long time, and finally processed the dry food into an edible form. When he came in with the food, he happened to see Chu Jiuge get up, walk to the cabinet, open the cabinet door, and took out a Buddha statue from it. scene.

Chu Jiuge remembered very clearly that he used to worship this Buddha statue every night before going to bed. Every time he knelt down, he always felt extremely painful in his heart. Only at this moment when he was calm in front of the Buddha could he be relieved.

Chu Jiuge knew that it was just his spiritual sustenance, a vent for him to relieve the pressure, but this is not a bad idea, he used to be able to relieve it, but now he can't even cry , It seems that the tears that have already been shed dry.

His body sank involuntarily, and Chu Jiuge felt dizzy for a while. When he calmed down, Yu Jingnian was hugging him, shouting anxiously.

It's a pity that he couldn't hear because of his tinnitus.

Looking up, the Buddha statue seemed to emit a soft light, warm and yearning.Suddenly waking up, Yu Jingnian was pinching his cheek.

"pain……"

Chu Jiuge looked a little dazed.

This made Yu Jingnian, who had been tense all the time, laugh, "You scared me, I thought you were going to be picked up by the Buddha."

Chu Jiuge looked back at the Buddha statue again, and the Buddha's light had already faded. Chu Jiuge didn't know if it was his own illusion or what, but he liked that feeling, as if all the pressure had been borne by others.

Yu Jingnian asked Chu Jiuge to sit down again, broke off a piece of sesame seed cake and fed it to him. On the other hand, he raised Chu Jiuge's hand and removed the heavily wrapped bandages on his fingers.

"The bone is deformed and needs to be re-bandaged and it can be a little painful."

Chu Jiuge glanced at his slightly twisted index finger, nodded, and then looked away.

Yu Jingnian was also trying to divert his attention, "That Buddha statue seems to be very important to you, should you please go back?"

Chu Jiuge bit the warm biscuits and shook his head, "These are just my wishful thinking. How could the Buddha bear my pain? As long as there is a moment of relief, I will be satisfied."

Taking advantage of Chu Jiuge's words, Yu Jingnian broke Chu Jiuge's ungrown phalanx with force, and heard Chu Jiuge's cry of pain in his ear, and quickly took it back, folding his chopsticks for support, Herbs are applied and bandages tightened.

Chu Jiuge's head was sweating from the pain, his fingers connected to his heart, and the pain in his fingers was the most unbearable.

"Don't move around, it shouldn't grow crooked."

"...It hurts."

Yu Jingnian had already heard from Zi Sui that Chu Jiuge was quite afraid of pain, and he also knew that the pain of breaking a bone was very bearable, so he didn't dare to say more, and buried himself in serving Chu Jiuge.

"General Yu...you soldiers, do you believe in the existence of gods and Buddhas?"

Chu Jiuge's question stunned Yu Jingnian. It took him a while to understand the meaning of the words, and he shook his head: "I don't believe it. Whenever I go through life and death, and see the corpse of my partner on the battlefield, I will You know, there are no gods in this world, otherwise, why don't they save the world?"