Qi Kuo

When Zhao Jun got the small note, he sat alone on the roof for a long time with the cold winter wind in his arms.

There are only a few words on it: "Do it on the fifteenth and third watch of the first lunar month."

Zhao Jun thought: It's a good time to come on the last day of the new year. It won't spoil everyone's interest, and it just happens to be in the capital on the last day to ensure that his plan can be perfectly realized.

Such a well-intentioned plan would be a good plan if it was not used to target a smarter person than him.It's just that if you use cleverness in the wrong place, you can only be clever and be misunderstood by cleverness, and you can't please yourself even if you try your best.

There was a wine jar beside Zhao Jun, and he picked it up to take a sip from time to time.

In the dead of night, a person sat down beside him, took the wine jar from his hand, poured a large mouthful into his mouth, then patted his shoulder and said: "You are young, don't drink too much."

Zhao Jun laughed: "Singing songs during the day requires drinking too much, and returning home with youth."

Liang Song stretched out his hand and patted Zhao Jun's forehead: "Don't pretend to be strange with me, it's midnight now!"

Zhao Jun laughed, but didn't make a sound, and the two hid in the darkness.

Liang Song drank some wine and felt warm all over, and asked, "How is it?"

Looking at the dim light in the distance, Zhao Jun propped his chin with his hand and said, "What else can I do? It's just like that. The two sides are deadlocked, and I'm caught in the middle. I always feel that the two sides are not human in the end." .”

Liang Song patted him: "Thinking too much, I can only say that you can see clearly, if you were someone else, would you think he could do it?"

Zhao Jun waved his hand: "Don't comfort me."

Liang Song suppressed the expression on his face, looked at him seriously, and said, "It's not to comfort you. Do you still remember what to do? My junior brother, the current master... Forget it, don't talk about him, let's talk about me. I am as old as you, less than 18 years old, and I am still practicing kung fu with my master all over the mountains and plains on Taicang Mountain. If there is something to do, the master will take care of it, and if there is nothing to do, he will bully and bully the new disciples. Wild rabbit, heartless every day... So, you are fine, don't be so demanding on yourself."

Zhao Jun smiled: "I don't want to either. I was like this before I met you. Before, I always thought that if I went to join the army, it would be a miracle. Now I really want to go back and beat myself to death."

Liang Song suddenly took a sharp turn in his mind and asked, "Then why did you come?"

Zhao Jun took the wine jar from him, and drank in the cold winter night: "I don't know, I just did it this way, maybe... it's destined."

Liang Song smiled: "You can't do something for no reason."

Zhao Jun turned his head to look at him, some turned his head back and said, "What exactly do you want to ask?"

Liang Song is not jealous either, there is no mouth in this world that he can't open.

He just said, "That's it."

Zhao Jun thought for a while, alcohol made his brain dizzy, and finally said in a daze, "I don't know, maybe it's because of him."

Liang Song's eyes lit up: "Huh?"

Zhao Jun shook his head: "Guess."

Liang Song: "..." The child is too old to be controlled by others.

Zhao Jun smiled: "I'm not playing anymore, I have to go back, when they look for me and find no one, it's over."

Liang Song nodded, but said reluctantly, "Who is it?"

Zhao Jun stood up, and the wind blew the hem of his clothes, raising a beautiful arc: "Actually, you have a bottom line in your heart, don't you?"

Liang Song was startled, and then a smile appeared on his face.Before Zhao Jun got off the roof, he turned his head and said, "Don't talk about going out, I'm afraid... I won't be able to come back, I wasted a good time."

Liang Song's original good mood suddenly disappeared. He looked at the back of Zhao Jun leaving, unable to regain his senses for a long time.Whether he has prepared for the worst, or has discovered something.

All of this began to gradually slip out of their control.

Chen Ke followed the little boy who came to open the door into the room, and while handing his robe to the little boy for her to hang up, he said, "Auntie."

Bai Xiu took his hand and patted it: "Come in and sit down, it's cold outside."

As soon as Chen Ke entered the room, he saw a portrait of Zhang Yuan placed in the center of the main room. He walked over and offered three sticks of incense to his uncle as he did every time he came here.

Bai Xiu stood behind and looked at Chen Ke's back, with a gentle smile in her eyes.

When Chen Ke came to the table, the little boy had already lit the brazier in the house even more vigorously. The inside of the house was warm and isolated from the infiltrating air-conditioning outside.

Bai Xiu took the warm water from Chen Ke and said softly, "Shen Ke, but who did you meet?"

Chen Ke smiled: "Why did Auntie say that?"

Bai Xiudao: "I don't know you yet? This time you come here, it's obviously very different from before."

"Huh? Ask Auntie for advice."

Bai Xiu said with a smile: "Don't tell me about these things, I won't talk about advice, do you know how different you are now from before?"

Her expression seemed to be trapped in some kind of memory, so deep that she couldn't pull it out.

When Zhang Yuan knocked on his door in the face of the wind and snow, the door just opened from the inside, revealing a small and delicate face, with tenderness in his brows and eyes: "Are you back?"

Zhang Yuan gathered his clothes together, wrapped the child in his arms tighter, and said, "Go in and talk."

Bai Xiu suddenly looked serious, turned sideways to let Zhang Yuan in, looked around by herself, and then closed the door.

Zhang Yuan put the child in his arms in the quilt, covered it up and said: "The Chen family... was... ransacked..."

Bai Xiu took a step back: "Why...how come...didn't you be fine yesterday?"

Zhang Yuan sighed: "Brother Chen was framed by the people in the court... I happened to see it when I sent Chen Ke back... just..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard someone knock on the door.

Zhang Yuan was startled, put the child into Bai Xiu's arms, and said, "Quickly, hide it! I won't tell you not to come out!"

Bai Xiu hurriedly followed what Zhang Yuan said, but before she could hide, the door was knocked open, and then she heard the voice of the commander of the Imperial Forest Army: "General Zhang, you are safe here."

Zhang Yuan went out, stood by the door, and said, "Don't come here, Commander Jin."

Bai Xiu took this opportunity to hide, and the child in her arms seemed to know the safety of the outside world, lying motionless in her arms, and fell asleep peacefully.

Zhang Yuan was still negotiating with Commander Jin outside. Bai Xiu didn't know how long she had been waiting, but only knew that when Zhang Yuan finally pulled her up, her legs were so numb that she couldn't stand up.

Bai Xiu looked at Chen Ke with a smile: "So, you are lucky and lucky."

Chen Ke just hummed lightly, and then heard Bai Xiu say: "Something happened later, you don't look like before every time you come, with a dull face..." She looked at Chen Ke now: "But today No, it stands to reason that people would be more irritable when they are in the current situation, but..." She paused intentionally, and looked into Chen Ke's eyes looking at her with a smile: "But, Today, you seem to have gotten rid of the shackles, but there is still someone worth caring about waiting for you."

Chen Ke was stunned, and said, "I'm not..."

Bai Xiu still patted his hand, and said earnestly: "Shen Ke, don't blame yourself all the time, let him get over what should be over, why keep it? If you can't let go, day after day If the day's silence continues, then what's the point of Zhang Yuan saving you? Many times, don't push yourself too hard, try to relax, and you will see a different world."

Chen Ke was silent and did not speak.

Bai Xiu continued: "I didn't tell you before because I thought the timing was wrong. After all, you haven't recovered yet. Now that you have a new life, why don't you pursue it? The man has passed away, so why pursue so much. Life is alive , living is the word happy. Isn't that what you said?"

Chen Ke suddenly hugged Bai Xiu and said, "Auntie..."

Bai Xiu was taken aback by his childish action, and then patted him on the back: "Okay, don't act like a spoiled child here, remember to bring him here when you have time, I'll take a good look."

Chen Ke said sullenly: "I don't know if it's settled yet."

Bai Xiu was annoyed by him: "Huh?"

Chen Ke let go of her laughingly: "Okay, yes, I will, I know."

Bai Xiu smiled helplessly, and let him do it.

He doesn't want to take care of young people's affairs, and he can't take care of them.

Chen Ke then talked with Bai Xiu, and was about to leave.Bai Xiu put a warm hand warmer in Chen Ke's hand, and said as he sent him out the door: "Wuuuuuuuuuu, look at how cold your hands are."

Chen Ke pushed: "No, I have to deal with some things."

Bai Xiu hesitated for a moment and then took it back: "That's okay, pay attention to safety on the road, wear more, it's cold, it's not good if you catch the wind and cold."

Chen Ke nodded in response: "You go back first, I'll go first."

Bai Xiu responded and said, "Okay."

When Chen Ke saw Bai Xiu entered the house, he turned and left, covered in snow.

After Zhao Jun reported secretly to Shang Hantuo, he went back to clean up by himself, preparing to leave.

The original plan was to return to Shanghan after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. As for the content of the so-called peace talks, he had nothing to do with him, and he didn't want to know.

He has too much right and wrong, he is not suitable for wandering around all day, the most he does is sit on the roof, looking at the scenery of the capital in a daze, thinking about things that he doesn't know what they are.

However, even though the heights were extremely cold, he still met a person who could be regarded as a friend—Xing Zhi.

The behavior didn't change much, except that the foggy aura that once settled between his eyebrows and eyes was gone. When he passed by him, he didn't notice Zhao Jun who was sitting on the roof. Only then did he come to his senses, and turned back to look for Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun looked at the people who had gone and returned, and smiled: "Don't come here without any problems."

Xingzhi looked around, Zhao Jun smiled wryly: "No one, they don't know I'm here."

Xingzhi just sat down, looked at the howling wind, and said, "Why do you sit on the roof and blow the wind?"

Zhao Jun said indifferently: "I hope I will be blown up, so I don't have to be so troublesome."

Xingzhi smiled softly: "When you are really sick, you will think again, why did I go to have a hair dryer then?"

Zhao Jun smiled: "Hey, yes."

Xingzhi sat with him for a long time, finally stood up, and asked him: "Do you want me to call someone over to accompany you to have a hair dryer?"

Zhao Jun shook his head: "No, I'd better avoid suspicion as much as possible. I can't explain clearly when I've been 'caught in' by someone."

Xingzhi nodded: "Alright, then I'll go find them first."

Zhao Jun nodded: "Well, good."

In the past few days, prominent figures in the Jianghu pretended to be ordinary people and entered the city, heading for the place Chen Ke told them.

Zhao Jun looked at Xingzhi's increasingly unclear figure, and murmured: "It seems that I'm ready."

When he was ready, he let it go.

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