Can't speak

The branches were burning in the fire, and Su Yangui broke off the green leaves on the branches, and tore them up bit by bit, and finally couldn't bear the silence that filled the air, and said bravely, "Ning Jian, I thought about it." Now, once we get here, it won’t be so easy to go back there.”

Ning Jian froze for a moment, then nodded slightly.

"You think so too?" Su Yangui moved towards him spontaneously, "Think about it, if we want to go back, we can only swim back from this pool. Let alone whether we can find it in the water. If you can swim across the road or swim, even if you swim through, if someone else finds out, such as Qin Yueshu or something, he is relaxed on the shore, and we are exhausted from swimming. Trick, that would be dangerous.”

"En." Ning Jian nodded.

Su Yangui moved to his side again: "So let's not go back at all. We have been walking for so long and haven't found the way, who knows how to find the treasure, if we are not careful You will lose your life. But staying here is different. You see, there are water and fish here, and it is so secretive. It is not a problem to live for three to five years. Although this cave is small, there are enough for the two of us. gone."

Ning Jian glanced at him, but still didn't speak.

Su Yangui didn't care, and said to himself: "When I was a child, I wanted a family wholeheartedly. I have a small house, don't worry about food and clothing, marry a daughter-in-law, raise a son, and let my father enjoy the blessings." , how wonderful."

He glanced at Ning Jian secretly, "Although there is no daughter-in-law and no son now, and my father has died long ago, but we are together, it's about the same."

Ning Jian was lowering her head and wiping her short sword, as if she didn't hear his words.

"Do you think so, Ning Jian?" Su Yangui asked unwillingly.

Ning Jian paused, raised his head and said, "This place is so secret, maybe it's the right way. Even if it's not, we have to get out." He paused again, "My third brother is still waiting for me, I can't stay here here."

"Maybe your third elder brother is eating and drinking hot food in the capital, so you don't need to save him. Even if you don't live for three or five years, it can be three to five months, right? We're going back now, what a risk we have to take. There are injuries, and there are still a group of chasing soldiers walking outside, but if we stay for three to five months, our injuries will be healed, and those people will starve to death, and those who are impatient should leave. Much safer. Right?"

Ning Jian frowned slightly, as if she was thinking about something, and did not answer Su Yangui's words for a while.

"What I said makes sense, right?" Su Yangui approached with a smile and asked in a low voice, "Also, when we were in the water, our kiss was so intense, maybe it lasted for three to five months , you will fall in love with me."

"Nonsense..." Ning Jian subconsciously pushed the person who came close.

Su Yangui was pushed out a few steps, stayed there for a while, then squatted down dejectedly, as if he was injured.

Ning Jian couldn't bear it, and was hesitating whether to coax him, when he saw Su Yangui looking at him from the corner of his eyes secretly, he paused, turned his eyes away and didn't look again.

Su Yangui went back to him cheekily, and sat down next to him, leaning almost her whole body on him: "Ning Jian, are you angry?"

"no."

"Then just smile and let me see." Su Yangui stretched out two fingers naturally and pinched Ning Jian's face.

Ning Jian raised his hand and chopped it, Su Yangui withdrew his hand in pain, and said with an aggrieved expression: "Look, you are obviously angry."

"I don't." Ning Jian frowned, feeling a little dazed. When she opened her eyes to look at Su Yangui, Su Yangui even felt that there was a trace of innocence in his eyes, which looked very good-looking.

"You won't even smile at me..."

You don't even want to smile at me, but you don't even have a smile, but I still can't help falling in love with you.

"Ning Jian, do you remember my 14th birthday?"

Ning Jian let out a "huh" and seemed a little absent-minded.

Su Yangui didn't care, and looked at the ray of light above his head, as if looking at himself many years ago through that ray of light.

"On the children's birthdays in the town, their mothers would boil eggs for them, make them a new set of clothes, and kiss them on the forehead when they go out in the morning. But my father said that the habits in Yongcheng are different from those in Crescent Moon Town. Same. So since childhood, every year on my birthday, he would only cook me an egg and give me a red envelope.”

Ning Jian turned her head to look at him in a daze, not understanding why he suddenly mentioned this matter.

Su Yangui immediately sensed his movements, looked away and grinned at him: "When I was 14 years old, I had a fight for a long time, saying that the fourth day of July is my birthday, and I want you to celebrate it for me, do you remember? "

Ning Jian shook her head.

Su Yangui seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and was not depressed, but just fiddled with the fire with branches.

"You made me an egg that morning, bought new clothes for me to change into, and wrapped a golden bean as a red envelope..." As if remembering something very interesting, the smile on Su Yangui's face became brighter , "When he was still going out, he kissed me on the forehead."

Maybe it was from that time that I realized that this person was different to me.

Su Yangui pointed to his forehead: "Here."

Ning Jian suddenly felt that the whole body became hot.He didn't understand why, he just felt that when Su Yangui pointed at his forehead and smiled at him, he felt as if he really kissed him there, extremely shy and inexplicably happy.

Su Yangui looked at him, but didn't take his hands off. After a while, he repeated: "Here."

Ning Jian was a little confused, seeing the mischievous excitement in Su Yangui's eyes, she frowned again, turned her eyes away and ignored him.

Su Yangui pressed forward step by step, moved a little closer and said, "Kiss?"

Ning Jian simply stopped talking.

Su Yangui put down his hand in disappointment, sighed softly, and when Ning Jian turned around, he said with a sad face: "At that time, I wanted to see you smile, but you didn't like it. Keep a face and don't speak. Now let you smile, and you won't... just smile, Ning Jian."

Smile, I can give you whatever you want.

Ning Jian ignored him, just pursed her lips and bowed her head in silence.

Su Yangui actually smiled, stood up and walked to the edge of the pool: "Ning Jian, smile, or I will jump down."

"Nonsense!" Ning Jian's face finally turned slightly cold.

"Then I'll jump." Su Yangui grinned, flipped back and fell into the pool with a plop.

Ning Jian was startled, and cried out: "Little devil!"

Su Yangui didn't come up after falling into the water, Ning Jian quickly walked to the edge of the pool, and called again: "Hey..."

The surface of the water was calm, except for the ripples that rippled when Su Yangui fell into the water, there was nothing else.

Standing on the shore, Ning Jian watched the ripples gradually disappear, and a trace of inexplicable panic rose in her heart.

Knowing that it was useless, he still stretched out his hand and swiped back and forth in the water, causing bursts of water splashes: "Little devil, stop messing around, come up quickly..."

The sound echoed in the cave, but it seemed even more empty.

Ning Jian closed her mouth, looked at the pool in front of her, stood up for a while and took a step back, took a breath and was about to jump down.

At this moment, the surface of the water suddenly surged, and Su Yangui emerged from the water with a crash.

Ning Jian froze on the spot, as if she didn't know how to react at all, and even maintained the posture of inhaling, staring fixedly at the person in the water.

"Ning Jian?" Su Yangui could easily see his strangeness, called out, and swam to the shore.

Ning Jian looked at him and stretched out his hand after a while: "Come up."

There was a hint of anger in the tone, Su Yangui could hear it, and the smile on his face deepened: "Ning Jian, did you just keep calling me?"

Ning Jian did not answer.

"Are you worried about me?" Su Yangui grabbed his hand excitedly.

Ning Jian moved a little, but didn't break free.

After a while, Su Yangui reluctantly let go of his hand, and moved in the water: "Ning Jian, do you really want to find the treasure and get out of here?"

"certainly."

Su Yangui looked puzzled: "But once you find the treasure, you have to kill me."

Ning Jian didn't speak, and didn't even look at him.

"There is still the secret of the royal family's blood hidden in the treasure. No matter whose son the current emperor is, he will kill me to avoid being used by someone with a heart. Isn't that right?"

"En." Ning Jian answered his words naturally.

"You're going to kill me if you go out, what should you do if you don't want to?" Su Yangui squinted at Ning Jian while talking slowly.

Ning Jian never looked at him, her eyes seemed to stay somewhere, and when she heard Su Yangui's words, she subconsciously answered, "Yes...what should I do?"

With the sound of splashing water, Su Yangui has already emerged from the water with most of his body, leaning against the bank, grabbed his neck, and kissed his lips.

Ning Jian reflexively struggled, Su Yangui had nowhere to rely, and was easily pushed away. After sinking and floating in the water for a while, only to find that Ning Jian was still fixed there with his eyes wide open when he emerged from the water again. .

Su Yangui smiled: "Ning Jian, give me a kiss, and I will take you out."

The short sword came out of its sheath with a bang, and it took only an instant from drawing the sword to putting the short sword on his neck, so fast that people couldn't see clearly. Ning Jian stared at Su Yangui, but just frowned and didn't speak. It was extremely helpless, as if apart from this, he himself didn't know what to do to bring Su Yan back.

Su Yangui's reaction was also quick, he only paused for a moment, then swung back and dived into the water again.

It wasn't until the waves on the water subsided that Ning Jian let out a little breath, and put the sword back into the scabbard with trembling hands.

He already knew very well that Su Yangui would not drown in this pool, but when he watched Su Yangui dive into the water, he became nervous for no reason.

This kind of tension lasted until Su Yangui surfaced again, with a reassuring smile on his youthful face. As soon as he got close to the shore, he threw the things in his hands onto the shore.

Ning Jian was stunned for a moment, and when she walked over, she realized that they were two pieces of copper of the same size, about the thickness of a fingertip, in a neatly trimmed square shape, with the character "月" engraved in seal script on one piece, and a "moon" on the other piece. The word "flower".

"This is……"

Su Yangui pointed to the water with a smile: "There is still below, I just touched it when I fell."

"It's the words left by Su Shi..." Ning Jian looked at the two copper plates for a while, then inserted the dagger into his waist, and was about to jump into the water.

"What are you doing!" Su Yangui called out.

"Go down and salvage all the copper pieces, they must be related to the treasure." While talking, Ning Jian had already entered the water.

Su Yangui quickly grabbed him: "You stay on the shore, I'll just dive down to find it. There is a whirlpool at the bottom of the water, it's too dangerous for you to go down."

Ning Jian shook her head: "You go up, I'll dig. My martial arts are better than yours. If I know there is a vortex, I will be vigilant, and the previous situation will not happen again."

"No..." Before Su Yangui finished speaking, Ning Jian had already thrown him ashore. When he got up to look, Ning Jian had already dived into the water, and he was nowhere to be seen.

Su Yangui opened her mouth, as if she wanted to scream, but closed her mouth in the end, sat on the bank, looked at the two pieces of copper that she scooped up by herself, and laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Why did you fish it up? If you don't fish it up, he will never know..." He said to himself, he picked up the copper piece and threw it back on the ground.

Even if he thought about it, Ning Jian wouldn't find out if he didn't take it up, wouldn't know how to move forward, maybe he would give up and stay with him, he couldn't keep deceiving himself.

Ning Jian is determined to find the treasure and leave here.

Maybe Ning Jian will really feel a little bit sad, maybe she will be sad when she kills him, but compared to him, there are more important things for Ning Jian.

Such as treasures, such as Ning Jian's third brother.

The surface of the water was uproarious, Ning Jian emerged from the water, threw three or four pieces of copper ashore, and quickly dived into the water again.

Be more positive than ever.

Su Yangui sat on the shore, looking at the rippling water, suddenly had the urge to cry.

When he opened his mouth, he laughed out loud. He buried his head in his arms, not wanting to see or listen to anything.He is not afraid of death, but as he continues to move forward, the time he can spend with Ning Jian will become less and less.Every time a difficulty is passed, it means that there is not much time, even less.

Ning Jian's movements were very quick. After two back and forth, nine pieces of copper were already piled up on the ground.

He climbed ashore and saw Su Yangui sitting there with her head buried, so he walked over, hesitated for a moment, then reached out and patted Su Yangui's head lightly.

Su Yangui's nose was sore, she didn't even dare to raise her head, and said in a muffled voice, "I'm not a child."

"Okay, you're not." Ning Jian followed him.

Su Yangui felt even more sad, such obedience was nothing more than an elder's pampering of a child, not what he wanted.

Ning Jian didn't say anything, and didn't hurry to go back to sort out those copper pieces, but just quietly sat down beside Su Yangui.

Su Yangui could sense his actions, but she couldn't raise her head. After a long time, she heard Ning Jian say, "Are you hungry?"

Unable to bear a wry smile, Su Yangui closed her eyes and shook her head, finally raised her head, and made a face at Ning Jian.Just like when Ning Jian tied him up for interrogation when he was a child, or when he was punished for refusing to practice the sword, he made a face and then laughed himself out first.

Ning Jian's eyes seemed to soften: "If I'm hungry, I'll go catch fish."

Seeing him standing up and going to the pool, Su Yangui hurriedly grabbed his hand: "I'm not hungry."

Ning Jian nodded and sat down again without speaking.

Su Yangui knew that he was waiting for her to speak.Turning his eyes to the pile of copper sheets on the ground, he said, "The eight characters left by my father, 'The first drunken moon invites the flowers to fall into the snow.' Are you going to make these copper sheets into a sentence?"

Ning Jian reached out and turned the copper pieces one by one into order, then suddenly frowned: "There are only six words here, and the rest are repeated."

Su Yangui was also a little surprised, and hurried over, and sure enough, there were only six different characters on the ground, and the rest of the copper plates were all repeating these words.

Ning Jian paused for a moment, then stood up, Su Yangui grabbed him, "Ning Jian..."

"I'll go down and have a look."

"I'm coming!" Su Yangui pulled him hard again, and walked to the edge of the pool before jumping down.

Unexpectedly, Ning Jian came up from behind: "No need, I'll just go down."

Su Yangui froze there for a while, watched Ning Jian disappear into the water, then slowly sat down on the ground and laughed.

Are you still doubting me, Ning Jian?

He looked at the surface of the water, took a long time to let out a long breath, slowly got up, turned around to flip through the copper pieces.

The copper pieces are all similar, and they weigh almost the same when picked up. Except for the words on them, there is really no difference.

He remembered that when he was very young, his adoptive father taught him to recognize the characters on it, telling him that this was something he would remember for the rest of his life.

Eight words, not very long. He also asked his adoptive father what it meant, but that person just smiled, patted his head, and then fell silent.

The descendants of the Su family only need to pass on the truth.

Don't think about things that don't belong to us.

But now he is standing here.

Su Yangui sighed again, this time Ning Jian seemed to have been searching for a long time, until he got a little anxious and was about to jump down to find him, then he floated up from the water and threw two pieces of copper ashore.

Seeing that his face was also a little pale, Su Yangui could not bear it again, the original trace of resentment had disappeared long ago, he just stretched out his hand, Ning Jian hesitated for a moment, then borrowed his strength to climb up ashore.

Su Yangui didn't say a word, Ning Jian ran to those copper pieces as soon as he landed, Su Yangui knew that he was anxious, so he followed, turned over the copper pieces, and said: "This word is complete, but it's not easy. There are a few more repetitions. What should I do?"

Ning Jian looked at the copper pieces on the ground for a long time before suddenly saying: "Do you remember the depression in the stone room before?"

Su Yangui looked up: "You mean, the ones lined up neatly?"

Ning Jian nodded: "Those depressions look like... a poem."

"You mean, these characters are to be embedded in those depressions?" Su Yangui thought for a while, "But there are only eight characters..."

"Do you know serial poems?" Ning Jian's voice was very calm.

Su Yangui also followed his attitude and quietly thought of it: "I know this, it's a game of literati, and some people like to engrave such poems on pot lids, bowls and dishes..." At this point, he His eyes lit up, "Just use a few words to form a circle, and then you can choose a word at the beginning and read it to the side, and you can make a poem... You mean, the eight words should be written in the same way. read it?"

Ning Jian nodded again, and took out eight non-repeating characters from the copper plate, and formed a circle in order: "The first drunk moon invites flowers to fall in snow, drunk moon invites flowers to fall in snow...is that really the case?"

Su Yan looked back at what he had placed, heard what he said, thought for a while, and said: "But on the other hand, 'Flying Snow and Falling Flowers invites the Moon to Drunk', can't it also form a poem? There are only four lines in the depression, and we How do you know what to put in there?"

Ning Jian was also silent.

Su Yangui looked at him, laughed at himself for a while, then turned to look at the eight characters in a circle: "Besides, Ning Jian... You see, if you read from the word "Flying" to the other side, the first drunken moon is flying... Strange, right?"

Ning Jian frowned slightly, but she didn't speak, and her eyes never moved away from the copper plate.

Su Yangui looked at the wet clothes on his body, and finally tugged his hand gently: "Dry the clothes first, and then think about it. Or go to the fire to think about it."

Ning Jian didn't seem to hear his words, Su Yangui waited for a while, then gritted his teeth, grabbed a few pieces of copper into his arms, stood up and was about to walk towards the fire.

Just as he turned around, there was a dagger in his eyes, the blade was sharp, and the tentacles were cold.

Su Yangui raised his eyes, and saw Ning Jian standing there holding on to the dagger, looking at him with killing intent in his eyes.

His heart seemed to be stabbed hard by something, the pain caught him off guard, but Su Yangui didn't back down, just looked into Ning Jian's eyes with a smile, and said, "Go to the fire to see, your clothes are all wet. , you will get sick if you don’t dry it.”

After finishing speaking, he turned aside very naturally and walked towards the fire.

It wasn't until he stopped by the fire and put down the copper piece that he was slightly relieved, and he could see his hands trembling when he looked down.

He knew he was afraid.

The murderous intent in Ning Jian's eyes was not fake. If he had acted recklessly just now, or if Ning Jian had been more ruthless, the sword might have cut his throat.

However, Ning Jian didn't do anything, just moved the remaining copper pieces over, and sat down beside him silently.

Su Yangui didn't know whether she should be happy or sad at this time.

Ning Jian only shook the clothes on his body, and concentrated on fiddling with the copper piece again. Su Yangui sat next to him, looked at it for a while, and then turned his eyes away.

Compared with the copper piece, he still prefers to watch Ning Jian.

"Ning Jian, you are so pretty."

"Yeah." Ning Jian didn't get annoyed by being praised for being good-looking like ordinary men, nor did she show much joy. She just responded perfunctorily, as if she didn't hear Su Yangui's words at all.

Su Yangui's heart moved, and she approached cautiously, reaching out her hand to touch Ning Jian's shoulder: "Your clothes are too wet, I'll wring the water out for you."

Ning Jian didn't move, and let Su Yangui's hand touch from shoulder to waist all the way, he just looked at the copper plate on the ground, and occasionally stretched out his hand to flip it, but Su Yangui shrank his hand in fright, but he Not affected at all.

Seeing his determination, Su Yangui didn't look at those copper pieces anymore, but just grabbed the hem of his clothes and wrung the water, taking the opportunity to touch Ning Jian a few times.

As time passed, the clothes could not be wrung out for a long time, Su Yangui touched for a while, but it only made her feel itchy, without any benefit, so she let it go and dozed off aside.

Ning Jian also gradually stopped turning the copper pieces, and just stared at them intently. Without the sound of the copper pieces turning, the cave seemed even quieter, only the occasional light crackling sound from the fire.Other than that, it was as quiet as if we could hear each other's breathing.

In a daze, Su Yangui opened his eyes again, and in front of him was Ning Jian's face, which was slightly flushed in the firelight, looking very pretty, and his lowered eyelids completely concealed his usual chilling aura , slightly too long eyelashes make him look like a shy big girl.

Su Yangui couldn't help calling out: "Ning Jian..."

Ning Jian didn't move, but replied vaguely.

Su Yangui sat up straight, looked at him, didn't say anything, after a while, she suddenly leaned towards his face and kissed him quickly.

Ning Jian seemed to be frightened, he jumped up, and the dagger was unsheathed with a bang, and he didn't recover until it was placed on Su Yangui's neck.

Su Yangui looked at him with a smile, Ning Jianjian frowned habitually, took a long while before sheathing his sword, and turned back to look at him without saying a word.

"Ning Jian, you should rest for a while before watching." Su Yangui looked at his enthusiasm and felt sad, but he could only find lame excuses to persuade him.

He couldn't say to this person, Ning Jian, don't think about it anymore, just stay here with me and live your life.

Because he knows this person can't do it.

From the beginning, it was just my own wishful thinking.

After a while, Ning Jian finally said, "Go to sleep, I will watch over."

"They won't come in so easily, there's no need to guard them." Su Yangui retorted subconsciously.

Ning Jian looked at him, didn't speak, but reached out and patted his head lightly.

Su Yangui blinked, then leaned against the wall and closed her eyes like a well-behaved big dog.

Ning Jian watched him fall asleep, and then slowly withdrew her hand. Looking at her own hand, she felt confused for the first time.

He could clearly see the grievance in Su Yangui's eyes, but he didn't understand why this person was wronged.

Maybe it's about wanting to live.Who wouldn't want to live?

Once the treasure is found and the blood relationship is found out, the people involved will be silenced.

From the time they met, he knew that one day he would kill the child.

Even after so many years, feelings have been born, and this matter has never wavered.

But listening to Su Yangui say "Ning Jian, I like you" over and over again, listening to him saying "Let's go together", listening to him talk about the future, there will be an inexplicable emotion.

It's not pure sympathy, nor disgust or joy, but it will make him feel uncomfortable.

Although this discomfort seems to be bearable, but when Su Yangui looked at him and asked "Do you have to kill me", he would also think, maybe there is no need to kill him?For example, it is not necessarily impossible to put him under house arrest for a lifetime, or use some secret medicine in Da Nei to destroy his mind and let him live his life in a daze.

It is not necessary to kill him.

But looking at the hope in Su Yangui's eyes, he didn't dare to give him such hope.

What's more, those methods have never been good methods.

After thinking for a while, Ning Jian subconsciously reached out and touched Su Yangui's head carefully.