Moth

Liu Changzhou has been in a bad mood recently, and anyone in the yamen who can still breathe can see it.The basic food and salt issue has roughly come to an end, and I haven't seen how relaxed he is. He doesn't smile every day, and often hides alone under the gazebo in the backyard, staying for a whole day.

The cold air in Jiangbei has officially arrived, and in a blink of an eye, when the breath is tangible, the stone tables and benches in the gazebo are covered with a layer of cold light.He didn't care about it, he just sat there, too lazy to move.Occasionally, I am in the mood to go to Jindou, and when I come back, I don’t talk to others, as if suddenly possessed by something strange, and my temperament changes greatly.

Huarong's first snow fell from the sky without making a sound while he was distracted.

Lu Hanzhang, who is obviously very afraid of the cold, is uncharacteristically dressed very thinly in this cold weather, and the hand stove that is usually necessary for going out in winter has disappeared, so a long line of people shuttling back and forth in the ice and snow looks like a ghost , very personable.

Liu Changzhou leaned on his chin and watched him approaching, unable to say anything.

He recently read some books on toxicology, and he knew the reason why Lu Hanzhang did this. Generally speaking, there are three ways for poisons/drugs to enter the human body, one enters through the mouth, one penetrates the skin, and the other penetrates the meridians. No matter which way it enters the human body, it will eventually penetrate into the meridians and take shape in the blood.

The toxicity of almost every chronic poison is directly related to the smoothness of a person's Qi and blood, and whether the smoothness of Qi and blood is closely related to body temperature.The higher the body temperature, the faster the poison progresses.

In other words, Lu Hanzhang's method of seeming to suffer, on the surface, is a waste of himself, but in fact it is an explanation to Liu Changzhou-I will try my best to survive.

It seems unbearable, but it is really helpless.

Lu Hanzhang came straight over and sat next to him, probably with the corners of his mouth stiff with cold, and his speech was a little clumsy: "What's the matter? You are worried, and you are still worrying about food and salt? Then do you think you can believe me?" He stretched out his hand Sticking to Liu Changzhou's side face, the thumb rubbed back and forth on his chin.

Liu Changzhou stared at him speechlessly for a while, stretched out his hand and folded it on his, and suddenly laughed, and actually fell in coyly, saying duplicity: "Is this not good? move you."

Lu Hanzhang nodded, and said along the way: "That's fine, anyway, I'm not very willing."

Liu Changzhou spoke quickly: "The big seals are all in Bingbi."

Lu Hanzhang and Liu Changzhou: "..."

Lu Hanzhang stood up, brushed the snow on his shoulders, and said, "Qingyun asked me a question yesterday. He said how to make sure that the wine brewed in Siwei Winery is not poisonous. Do you have any good ideas?"

Coincidentally, Du Heng's figure flashed past the moon gate, Liu Changzhou tapped the table with his fingertips, and said, "It's about paying a tael of silver from Du Heng. Go to the market to buy a chicken, and force the chicken to go to the market." Drinking, you have to try one jar after another, if you can't drink it to death, it must be non-toxic."

Lu Hanzhang commented pertinently: "High. In fact, I think it would be good to make medicinal wine." He bent down and touched his forehead, waved his hand, and planned to retreat like a ghost.

In fact, what Liu Changzhou was really worried about was not the food and salt at all, but Liu Jiang.

When he was young and ignorant, he used to be bitter about the fact that his father refused to save his master. The hatred of a young man is always simple and direct.It wasn't until he took over the authority of the Guanyu Pavilion that he also began to have some kind of absurd but real sense of fate, and then he realized that some people were destined to end up like this.

The relationship between him and Liu Changzhou and Liu Jiang suddenly became a little complicated. Did Lu Hanzhang know that he and Liu Jiang had witnessed Lu Fuzhi being scraped clean by a knife?Maybe he wouldn't react if he knew it. He knew that person never clings to the past.But this is exactly what made Liu Changzhou feel unbearable - the more Lu Hanzhang didn't care, the more he felt bitter.

He sighed, and suddenly heard people turning their backs in the front yard.To be precise...the movement was already close to the eyes.

A red horse with a whole body broke in through the moon gate, and the girl on the horse had a pair of exceptionally clear big eyes, flickering up and down like a ghost, the curved eyelashes were covered with fine snow, and there were still scars on her cheeks. Two dimples.The girl rode her horse into the Moon Gate, and instead of stopping, she whipped the horse's butt again too much, and this whip directly caused the man to rush in and head straight for the gazebo Liu Cheung Chau left.

Liu Changzhou smiled dotingly, stood up and opened his arms, he didn't even want to move his feet, and said leisurely: "I always think you can't get married."

That person rushed over with great vigor, almost rushing to Liu Changzhou's front door, and then stopped like a sudden brake. The horse's reins in the girl's hand were tightened tightly, and the horse's front hooves were raised high. He kicked a few times in mid-air before he brushed Liu Changzhou's temples and landed firmly on the ground.

The girl got off her horse lightly, and plunged headlong into Liu Changzhou's arms like a madman, her voice was very clear, and after a series of "brothers" came out, she said very disrespectfully to her brother: "Why are you a single dog, Jin Dou Woolen cloth?"

Liu Changzhou: "..."

The girl in his arms has thin bones, and the presence of such a hug is a little thin, but it is indeed his relative whose blood is thicker than water——his sister, Liu Changbin.While he disliked her for not being able to marry, he couldn't help but bend his eyes with a smile, thinking that he had been abnormal lately anyway, and there was nothing wrong with being abnormal, so he put his arms around her waist and lifted her up.

The pair of brothers and sisters turned around in a stupid way, not to mention how embarrassing the scene was.

A man came out from behind the horse. The man's black hair was half white, his eyes were covered with a layer of thick gauze, and only a sharp chin was exposed on the whole face, and he could vaguely see his youthful appearance.

The clothes on his body can be said to be very trendy, from top to bottom are covered with bottles and cans, the colorful colors are very eye-catching, the clothes are close to a kind of tattered clothes, with many sparse and colorful wide cloth strips hanging down from it, Disguising the originally very thin figure turned out to be a little puffy.

In the man's hand was a mahogany staff that was as tall as a person, and a wine gourd was tied to it full of immortality. Besides, there was a green snake about the thickness of the wrist coiled around it, and the whole person was nondescript. It's as if he didn't come back from southern Xinjiang, but he seems to have been the leader of the beggar gang for more than ten years. Later, the members of the beggar gang found that unknown objects had entered in disorder, and forcibly cleaned them out with a dog-beating stick.

It was Liu Changzhou's father who never showed up.

This pair of father and son seems to have a very weird hobby - transvestism, and each one is better than the other.

Liu Changzhou's last impression of his father was a back view, tall and straight, thin but not weak.Many years later, the stalwart husband in the world at that time reappeared in front of his eyes, with such a slovenly and extremely funny unfortunate appearance at this time.

There is no loss of soul, it seems that it is more of a debauchery.

He was so childish that he bulged his cheeks, feeling that his eyes were going to go blind, probably because he was used to being the leader and the eldest brother. Over the years, no one had taught him how to be the eldest son in front of his father, which caused his voice There was some imperceptible stiffness, and he said in a nonchalant way: "I'll give you some time to burn incense, go to the wing room and change all your messy things for me." , I didn't want to deepen any family conflicts, so I added a word very awkwardly: "Father."

He glanced at Lu Hanzhang out of the corner of his eye, and only caught a slight shock from the man's face.But those shocks passed in a flash, and soon disappeared without a trace, with a flawless expression on his face that it had nothing to do with him.

Liu Jiang coughed lightly twice, and from the reluctant "Father", I heard so many meanings of relieving the suspicion from the tip of the little finger, but in fact it was still a little awkward, and then the existence of a little beast relieved it just right His embarrassment - Jin Dou, who was big in one hand, rushed towards him on the hot wheel, the dog's tail wagged into a whirlwind, and all the hot air from the dog's nose sprayed on his face.

He stretched out his finger and flicked Jin Dou's head: "There is no roast chicken for you to eat, but there are a lot of Hedinghong, come and try it?"

Zhu Dianyi, who appeared at the end, looked around the scene for a week and didn't see any figure. He breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably, poked Fang Bingbi's arm beside him, and said, "Hey, brother Bi, where's the idiot?"

Because he saw the lover of his dreams, Fang Bingbi was in such a beautiful mood that it was impossible to describe it in human words. He absent-mindedly said concisely: "I was sent by the boss to Qinghe to pick up the old man Zhan."

The backyard of the yamen suddenly became extremely lively.A group of people were joking and cursing, which temporarily relieved Liu Changzhou's nerves, which had been tense for a long time, and felt that this year's New Year's Eve would definitely be a good one.

Although the snow came gently, it was full of patience, and it kept falling until almost midnight.These people in the yamen generally had a sleepless night.

Liu Changzhou tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, got up at night and climbed to the roof with a jar of wine in his arms, thinking about it, not knowing how to say this to Lu Hanzhang.As a result, he ran into Liu Jiang who was also unable to sleep at night and turned over the roof. This coincident behavior of a gentleman on the beam once again confirmed a great truth-dragon begets dragon, phoenix begets phoenix, and the son of a mouse can make holes.

Liu Jiang was still blindfolded, changed into a suit of plain clothes, and slowly touched his ears with the unusually slight breathing sound, sat cross-legged on his right hand, and said as if he had nothing to say: "Cough, Is your mother okay?"

Liu Changzhou pushed the wine jar to the middle, as if "come and have a drink, calm down and don't say anything stupid", and said, "You know that there is a widow living next door to our house? Once you leave, my mother and a widow will be together again." How much difference can there be? Don't worry, why haven't I seen you come back for so many years?"

Liu Jiang took a sip of wine, recalled some ancient memories, and said sadly: "When I was young, I owed your master and my friend my life. I lived in the Southern Border Medicine Valley for so many years without seeing the sun. In fact, There is no other meaning, but I hope that if one day, by chance, I meet his son, and he can be cured of his poison, he will almost pay off his debts, and he will probably be able to rest in peace when he dies."

Liu Changzhou was shocked, and his breathing suddenly became a little messy—how did his father know about Lu Hanzhang's poisoning?In other words, when exactly was the poisoning?Who is the person who gave the drug?When Lu Fuzhi was executed, what additional things happened?

He took a deep breath and said, "Have you seen what happened to Chang Li and Bing Bi?"

Liu Jiang didn't expect him to ask such a question, and asked in surprise, "Why?"

Liu Changzhou thought for a while, and said frankly: "Bingbi is Chang Li's home, and the poisoned person you mentioned is my home. Before I didn't have him, I always thought that death was the end of people like me and my master." , but some people, his existence, makes you fight like moths to the flame, and also to earn a future for each other." When he said this, he didn't know why the eye circles were a little hot, so he paused, and then said: "Father, To tell you the truth, I don't hate you anymore, otherwise I wouldn't be able to ask Chang Ting to come to southern Xinjiang to find you. I just hope you tell me what my destination is like in the past?"

Liu Jiang asked incredulously, "Xuancheng is with you?"

Liu Changzhou seemed to pay attention to his father's eyes only now, and said, "What's wrong with your eyes? Are you blind?"

Liu Jiang kicked him tentatively, and scolded with a smile: "What are you talking about? The mountains and forests in southern Xinjiang are full of fog and miasma in winter. I have gone to the mountains to find medicine a lot, so I am temporarily blind."

Liu Changzhou pretended to be sorry and said: "Hey, if you just go blind, my mother can restrain you with a rolling pin, and when you die of old age, you don't have to worry about whether you will die or not."

Liu Jiang sighed and opened up the chatterbox.

"On the day your master was sentenced to death, you were small and ignorant, howling like a little lunatic. When I finally knocked you unconscious and drove you to Lu's mansion, your master's mother was stabbed in the neck with a poisonous needle. , Bleeding from the seven orifices, dying so badly. Xuancheng was not much older than you at the time, and was forced by several people to pour poisonous wine into his mouth, and fell on the desk completely unconscious."

"Xuancheng is different from you. His father is your master, but you must know that this child has been a half-useless person since he was a child. Before this happened to him, you didn't know how good he is. Your master was the last In front of the leader of the Guanyu Pavilion, he ruthlessly ruined his kung fu with his own hands. Because compared to a person's ambition, your master hopes that his children can have a simple life."

He paused at this point, hesitated and said: "Yao Shan, I just want to ask you about your current life...will you hate me?"

Liu Changzhou chuckled lightly, and said: "Look, you are so stupid for staying in southern Xinjiang for a long time. If you don't come back, you will be stupid to death one day sooner or later. It happened 800 years earlier, whether you hate it or not What's the difference between hate? This is equivalent to feeding me a mouthful of rice, and the mouthful of rice will be pulled out through the intestines. Is it interesting for you to ask me if the mouthful of rice was good?"

Liu Jiang also smiled, knowing that he was no longer the boy who was like a little bastard with red eyes every day when he left. In a blink of an eye, his son grew up enough that he could sit on the roof with him and chat about the past. up.He continued: "You would never guess that the person who poisoned him is the current emperor, Zong Yi. That kid Zong Yi is more capable than his father. He knows who is the greatest threat to him, who can be appointed, and who is not." It can continue to exist, he knows it well in his heart. The so-called "a tree that is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it", Zong Yi was only old at that time, and how big a heart can he have to accommodate Xuancheng?"

Liu Changzhou's tears flowed out uncontrollably—he and his destination never seemed to have a common mission.Zong Yi gave him the greatest power, he could gallop across the entire territory of Daqing, but he never imagined that this person actually broke his lover's wings.

He adjusted his mood and asked, "Then what kind of poison did he have?"

Liu Jiang was silent for a while, and said, "You're going to hate me. That was the last poison I concocted when I was a poison master. I didn't even have time to prepare the antidote, so Zong Yi, who was still the prince at that time, shunned me away. So... …that poison has no name, no antidote.”

A string in Liu Changzhou's heart snapped with a bang, and his mind was so confused that he couldn't figure it out. He heard himself asking in a daze: "You speak ill of my immediate boss in front of me and lead me to hate him?" , you are not afraid that I will commit the heinous crime of killing the king, and I will bear the eternal infamy of disloyalty and filial piety from now on?"

Liu Jiang shook his head and said, "But can you do it? You are so old, you should have a clear definition of what is meant by 'have to'. In this life, how many things are you willing to do? How many things are you willing to do? What has to be done? Zong Yigui is the lord of the world, so he has no difficulties? Before you knew the existence of Xuancheng, did you know how much Zongyi and Xuancheng had nothing to say? No matter how cruel he is, he will still Can you be indifferent to the half-dead of the chief executive? Do you know how long he has been decadent about this?"

Liu Changzhou collapsed - this series of questions were thrown down without thinking, and he didn't have so much strength to bear it for a while.The world is right, Zong Yi is right, his master is right, and Lu Hanzhang is even more right. No one seems to be able to pick a fault.

Wrong friendship, and wrong love.He thought that he would be a ruthless person in the next life, be indifferent to everything, would not worry about anyone, let alone be inseparable from anyone, and would not shed tears all his life for anyone.It's better to live a miserable life than to suffer like this.

He drank the remaining half of the jar of wine in one go, and said bitterly: "Why didn't the miasma in southern Xinjiang block your broken mouth?" After speaking, he jumped up and down on the roof and disappeared. There was only one empty jar left on the roof, and the six gods had to roll around, and fell to the ground with a "clang" sound, waking up the dogs near and far.

Only now did Liu Jiang catch a trace of coquettish childishness from him, he shook his head, raised the wine gourd on his waist to the bright moon, shook his head and said: "Ruthless may not be a real hero, how can Lianzi not be a husband?" Mingyue ignored him, he was quite gentle on the surface, but in fact there were some weird men on the inside and he hummed in a messy way: "I'm asking about the waterfront..."

Xie Qingyun has been particularly dishonest recently. Ever since Lu Hanzhang was in a coma for so many days, this little boy wanted to be a doctor, but he didn't know a few Chinese characters. He didn't know where to find a copy of "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic", but when he opened it, he found , A hundred words only know a few words.His second brother didn't come back from the winery, so he ran to Lu Hanzhang's bed with the book in his arms and begged him to read it to him.

Lu Hanzhang couldn't laugh or cry, he leaned on the bed in his cloak, held the lamp stand in one hand, and the scroll in the other, and read to him from the first page in a soft voice: "Journal One..." Counting the beats silently in his heart, as expected, this one has been arguing all the time The little boy who was going to be a doctor didn't finish listening to a sentence, so he fell asleep quickly.

It started snowing again in the yard.

Lu Hanzhang wrapped Xie Yitong well, pushed open the door and went out, but was surprised to find that Liu Changzhou was standing in the yard at some point, motionless, his body covered with snow, and he didn't know how long he had been here.

He wondered: "You don't sleep at night, do you want me to read the "Huangdi Neijing" to hypnotize you?"

The man stumbled and staggered, slowly moved over, hugged him tightly without warning, choked up and said: "My life is in your hands...Xuancheng..."

This is the end of my life, this is the end of my life...

The author has something to say:

Ruthless may not be a real hero, how can Lianzi not be a husband. ——Lu Xun

I ask the waterfront from the world - Fang Hui

"My life is in your hands" - Gao Yang