Forbidden City of Heze + Dalufei

Ling Ju staggered up to meet him, knelt down, and Ren Jier threw herself into his arms with the breath of midsummer, her soft hair fell on his neck, and her little flushed face was pressed against his cheek.Fortunately, his hands were still handcuffed behind his back, otherwise, he might not be able to restrain the excitement in his heart, and crush this young flower bud with an overly rough hug.

"Daddy... Daddy!" The girl hugged his neck tightly.With a delayed language development, she can't speak more complicated sentences, and can only keep calling the title of her closest relative.

"Little bored..." Ling Ju's voice became hoarse, and the joy of regaining what was lost made his heart surge.At this moment, the presence of the other party finally took over all the weight of his life, and his heart was filled so that there was no gap left.The worries about the future and the attachment to the past that were once pressed inside like a boulder all flew away like ashes and melted away like ice and snow in front of this newborn little sun.He felt relieved like never before, and murmured in her ear, "It's all over, Dad will never leave you again, from now on... I only look at you, I only live for you! "

"Oh, this little girl seems to be equipped with a radar that can sense you, and she keeps arguing from far away!" A woman's voice approached from far to near, speaking in a familiar tone, "You are back, if you do this I can't control her with my old bones!"

Ling Ju raised his head abruptly, only to find that Aunt Ju Xiang was running towards her panting with small steps. Except for some gray and black stains on her wide cloth skirt, she looked unscathed.

Immediately afterwards, Ling Ju looked away and saw more men and women behind her.With sad but very peaceful expressions on their faces, they gradually approached, surrounded him, and helped him up from the ground.When they saw the blood oozing from the wound on his abdomen, some people hurriedly found a clean bandage for him, while others began to find a way to uncuff him, because his wrists had been worn off due to the long restraint A layer of skin.

"What's going on here?" Ling Ju looked at them in a trance. He recognized several familiar faces. These people were civilians who followed the rebel army. Some of them were family members of soldiers who died in battle, and more Ordinary people displaced by war.

Aunt Juxiang picked up Jier, looked at this young man covered in blood and mud sympathetically, then she sighed, and handed something in her hand to him, it was a crumpled note.

"After you left, I found this in Jill's pocket while I was bathing her."

Ling Ju was very familiar with the strokes of the handwriting on the note. He laughed out loud when he saw only half of it, his shoulders twitched uncontrollably.Within a day, his nerves were tossed to the point of confusion by that man, he was used, deceived and raped by him, and he imposed extreme anger, pain and suspicion on his own initiative, but what is it now?Like a butcher, he raised his knife and fell, bloody cutting off his companions and responsibilities that fettered him, but carefully reserved the last hope for him.

He has always been such a sober, cold, and awkward bastard who hides his sincerity in the deepest darkness, refuses anyone's love, yet makes people hate him.

When Ling Ju came back to his senses, he hurriedly squeezed through the crowd, trying to find Yan Liang's figure, but found that the guy had left at some point.

While smoking a cigarette, Yan Liang walked down the mountain alone along the path he came from, the dappled sunlight passing over his expressionless face.After hearing the shout behind him, he still didn't mean to slow down.

"Bastard, wait a minute!" Ling Ju chased him very hard, but followed him relentlessly, determined to stop him, "You should also take care of the injured person a little bit!"

"The extermination of the rebel army is over," Yan Liang stopped for a while, without turning around, and said in a business-like indifferent tone, "In the records of the Pandu Army, all those who collaborated with the rebel army Already killed in the bombing. Your names will be completely wiped and there will be no further pursuit."

"..." Ling Ju stopped a few meters away from him, and an inexplicable force prevented him from getting closer.

"Live well this time." His exhortation was like a real elder.

"I didn't expect...you would spread the news of evacuation through Jier." Ling Ju looked at his back and said with some lack of confidence, "It's too messy."

"Didn't you say that she is your patron saint?" Yan Liang exhaled a puff of smoke and replied disapprovingly, "Then it's worth a gamble, whether she can take on this important task."

On that note, he not only stated the time when the bombing will be carried out and the place where effective refuge can be found, but also gave the other party a condition: "Only civilians can survive. If this news is leaked to those who stay in the camp Soldiers, or even if only one soldier escapes the siege, this war will not end, I will report your location to the army carrying out the suppression operation, and then they will kill the roots."

"We...are all accomplices."

Ling Ju remembered Aunt Ju Xiang's gentle words. She stroked the top of his head as if comforting a frustrated child, and said, "We cowards betrayed the rebel army and chose to escape quietly and continue to live. It's because it's true. Want to live, see you and Jill every day, live with you. It doesn’t matter who rules this country, those things don’t matter.”

"In the future, all of us will bear this crime together, but don't blame yourself. You tried your best to protect us and gave us a chance to survive. We want to thank you."

For a long time, Ling Ju, who felt ashamed and guilty because of the thought of fear of war, was gently forgiven by them. He was at a loss after being forgiven, lowered his head and clenched his fists, and heard Yan Liang coldly. Leng's voice, "This is the path they chose."

statement that cannot be refuted.Ling Ju was silent for a long time, and the atmosphere became serious. He no longer knew what to say to this man, and he swallowed all kinds of words, his chest was congested in a panic.

"What about you?" In the end he asked abruptly, letting the new topic catch the other party's footsteps who would leave at any time, "Where are you going next? Where is the path you chose?"

"I'm going to Dalufei." Yan Liang answered briefly.

As expected.Ling Ju continued to question patiently, "Dalufei's border control is notoriously strict, and you can't just enter it casually. Do you have a way?"

"No. We'll talk about it when we get there."

Ling Ju sighed, so he took a few steps forward, approached his back cautiously, raised his hand and handed over a note, "This is the contact information of a comrade-in-arms I have a good relationship with. He used to be my At the same level in the Royal Military Academy. After the fall of He Ze, he fled abroad and has been working as a mercenary for a living. He has invited me to join the team several times, because I was worried about Jill, but I refused."

"I heard him casually mentioning before that a strange local organization in Dalufei secretly recruited a large number of mercenaries."

"A big event is about to happen in that country." Ling Ju's tone concealed deep worry, but he knew that once this man found a way, any advice would be meaningless, "If you pass him, there should be a way Enter Darufi."

Yan Liang accepted his note, as if receiving a gift in return.It was at this moment that he finally turned around and met Ling Ju's eyes.The light spots through the shade of the trees fell on the corners of their eyes, shaking slightly.

"Understood." He said lightly, "Goodbye."

"We won't meet again in the future, right?" Ling Ju's smile revealed a bit of loneliness.

"If you dare to appear in front of me again, I will kill you next time." Yan Liang's expression was serious.

"I said, you are always self-righteous and self-righteous. It is very natural to impose your own ideas on others, to make decisions for others without authorization, and to treat the other party as a fool..." Ling Ju's brain became hot, and he finally thought He said a bunch of what he really wanted to say in one breath.

Yan Liang showed an impatient look, as if he didn't intend to argue with him any more, and moved to leave, but just as he started to move, the young man rushed over and hugged him from behind.

"I haven't finished yet!" Ling Ju clasped his waist firmly, and buried his face on his back, "But you are not a bad person like this! Because you want to protect the things you care about the most, be it cheating or killing That's right, you who are not afraid to do cruel things, you who are willing to play the villain, you are more gentle than anyone else! A coward like me can only boast of his conscience, dare not even bear a little sin, and shamelessly accept What qualifications do you have to accuse you of doing something wrong with your arrangement?"

"It's just... I don't want to see you continue like this, continue to slide into the dark abyss, get used to the dirty blood, and your heart is getting colder and colder! I hope someone can accompany you, not to be protected by you, but to be with you You rely on each other, fight against this cruel world with you, and bear the sins with you! I know that person is not me, I have no way to do it, and I am just a small character who cannot protect myself."

"You don't need to worry about it." The cigarette butt burning between his fingers accumulated a large amount of soot, which was about to burn his fingers, and Yan Liang just spit out a few words, still the kind of reaction that cannot be called a reaction, " I know what I have to do."

Ling Ju opened his eyes, and the last stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.He grabbed his clothes tightly, calmly feeling the warmth from that body.If the other party has a seemingly nonexistent body temperature, it seems that the bitter love has been bleached by time and has no results.

You are the first person who taught me what it feels like to be loved, and I desperately want to live just because that feeling is so unforgettable.

"Captain, go and catch that kid, and then die of old age on the bed in a serious manner."

When Yan Liang walked away step by step, Ling Ju couldn't resist watching him, but turned his back and raised his head, so that the hot tears in his eyes were firmly restrained by gravity, so that they wouldn't overflow.Wherever he looked, the sky was still the same, leaving no trace of any bird's wings.

Even so, I will never forget the skies we once flew together.