Still pity the grass and trees

When it was dusk, Xie Wufeng knocked on Ji Tanyin's door, holding a jug of good wine in his hand, and said with a smile: "Are you still annoying me?"

Ji Tanyin let out a "hum" from his nose.

When he asked Lingfeng, he was spoiled by his master and two senior brothers. Apart from being injured in martial arts, he had never been wronged, and he had never met someone like Xie Wufeng, so he was inevitably deeply attracted.Even though he is often overwhelmed by him, he still wants to play together.

Xie Wufeng has been through the rivers and lakes for a long time, and he knows a lot of astronomy and geography, anecdotes and strange things, and most of them are ways to stimulate Ji Tanyin's appetite, often half-speaking, which makes him scratch his heart.Ji Tanyin didn't know that he was a little wolf caught in a trap, seeing Xie Wufeng take the initiative to show his favor, he was still complacent and felt that he had the upper hand.

"I'm afraid you have to polish your precious sword five or six times a day." Xie Wufeng hooked the door with his foot and approached him.

Ji Tanyin put the shiny Yingxue sword back into the scabbard, moved her nostrils, and asked, "Where did you get the wine? It's not from the inn, right?"

"My private collection." Xie Wufeng put the two cups between his fingers on the table of the Eight Immortals, picked up the wine jug with a thin mouth, and poured the light yellow liquid into the cup.

There are military households nearby, and I don't know where he got the fine wine, Ji Tanyin muttered to himself, but didn't pay attention to it, and took a drink from the glass.

"Drinking so fast," Xie Wufeng flicked his sleeves, sat down on the chair slowly, swirled the cup to sip the wine, and asked abruptly, "Still worried about Miss Wen?"

Ji Tanyin nodded, then shook his head again after a while: "Not all of them, I just feel that the world is impermanent and fate is unpredictable."

Xie Wufeng looked at him quietly for a while, then suddenly asked: "How old is Ah Yin?"

Ji Tanyin didn't understand, so he honestly replied: "Eighteen years of wasted time."

Hearing this, Xie Wufeng laughed twice: "You don't need to be polite with me!" He leaned on the chair half-tilted, pondered for a while, and said: "There is no moon tonight, if you want, you can go to Miss Wen's room Condolences."

"How can that work?" Ji Tanyin only thought he was joking, "Sneaking into the mansion in the dark night is different from a flower picker."

"The difference is that you are not a flower picker." Xie Wufeng didn't want to argue with him, so he waved his hand, "Stop talking, let's drink."

Ji Tanyin was depressed, so he drank quickly and quickly. After a few cups of yellow soup, he was overwhelmed with drowsiness.He put down his wine glass, yawned twice, propped his forehead and said to Xie Wufeng: "I don't know why today, I got drunk so fast."

Xie Wufeng said calmly: "Then go to bed earlier."

Ji Tanyin rubbed her face, her eyelids became heavier.Xie Wufeng helped him to the side of the bed, Ji Tanyin fell on his back, mumbling a few words, probably thanking him, and then breathing evenly.

Xie Wufeng took off his shoes for him, covered him with a quilt, stared blankly at the young man's unsuspecting peaceful sleeping face, finally laughed "silly boy", and blew out the lamp.

He went back to his room and sat there in the dark without undressing.

It was night with dim stars, sweltering heat and no wind, and at the time of the ugly card, everything was silent, even the sound of crickets stopped.In the silence, a small window on the second floor of the inn opened silently, and then a black shadow floated down and quickly disappeared into the dense night.

This night, some people had sweet dreams, and some people couldn't sleep at night.

In a wing room of Wen's mansion, Wen Muqing's hair was disheveled, her clothes were disheveled and she lay on the bed, her body twitched from time to time, as if she was suffering from epilepsy.She held a dagger tightly in her hand, and her red eyes were wide open under the dim oil lamp.

The tears have been shed, the eye sockets are dry, and even the vision is blurred.His throat was on fire, as if being scratched by a sharp knife.Where's the water... She turned her head with difficulty and looked at the teapot on the round table, but she didn't have the strength to get up to get it.

Knock knock knock, in the silence, suddenly there was a knock on the door close at hand.

Wen Muqing's shoulders trembled again, she leaned on the bed rail in horror, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Who?"

"Miss Wen, excuse me," said a deep male voice, "I have something to ask you."

Wen Muqing slowly opened her mouth wide.She jumped off the bed suddenly, staggered when she landed because her legs were weak, then staggered forward and opened the door.

There was a handsome man standing outside the door with an unfamiliar face, but Wen Muqing stared at him dazedly for a moment, her already dry eyes leaked a little sparkle again, she covered her mouth, broken and hoarse words leaked from between her fingers: "Is it you? You... I recognize your voice... I often dream at night... Wu... Impermanence..."

"It's me." Xie Wufeng said lightly.

Wen Muqing stared at him for a while, then suddenly became agitated, sometimes scratching her messy hair in fear, sometimes pulling at her crumpled clothes, and said hysterically: "Am I ugly? Why did you come at this time?"

"Miss Wen," Xie Wufeng persuaded, fearing that her loud noise would attract servants, "let's go in and talk."

Wen Muqing took a few steps back, sat down on an armchair, her eyes swollen into peaches looked at him with hope, choked up, "Is the hero here to take me away?"

"No, I'm not a hero either." Xie Wufeng chose a far corner to sit, and said almost cruelly: "I came to check your parents' corpses, but I couldn't find them after searching, so I came to ask you."

When mentioning her parents, Wen Muqing's breathing immediately became rapid, she pressed her chest, and let out a few hoarse cries.

Ordinarily Xie Wufeng should hold her in his arms and comfort her softly, but he didn't move, he just sighed: "My condolences will change."

"Please take me away," Wen Muqing knelt down on the ground and walked in front of Xie Wufeng, making a gesture to kowtow, but was stopped by Xie Wufeng, "I'm afraid... my parents are dead, I have to go back to my uncle, who always hates I, will marry me hastily, I don't want to marry yet!"

Xie Wufeng helped her up, and said in a cold voice, "Jianghu is much more dangerous than you think, besides, why should I take you away?"

Wen Muqing leaned weakly in Xie Wufeng's arms, a blush appeared on her pale face.She bit her lower lip, struggled a bit, and whispered after a while: "I volunteer to serve the pillow mat."

Xie Wufeng looked at her, pulled the corner of his lips lightly, and took a step back: "I don't need it."

Wen Muqing staggered and supported the edge of the table, her sense of shame had faded under the blow of losing her parents and being helpless, she eagerly expressed her heart, since they met at the beginning of last year, she has never forgotten it until now, and said that she is willing to be a concubine, As long as Xie Wufeng is willing to take her away.

"You are too excited, Miss Wen." Xie Wufeng turned his eyes away, not looking at her distressed appearance, "Everyone has their own fate. I have saved you, but it does not mean that I will always save you. You want to get out of the sea of ​​suffering , can only rely on oneself."

Wen Muqing panicked and said: "Then you can accept me as a disciple, I want to practice martial arts!"

Xie Wufeng refused without batting an eye: "The aptitude is too poor, the start is too late."

Wen Muqing finally despaired, sobbing with dull eyes.The low sobbing sound lasted for a long time in the boudoir, she wiped away the tears and asked: "The hero came to find my parents' dead bodies today, is it because he wants to avenge them?"

Xie Wufeng said mercilessly: "I'm just curious about who did it."

Wen Muqing was used to his words like a knife, nodded and said: "Heroes don't want to take me away. It's because of my bad fortune. I'm destined to live as a pig under the fence. I only ask you one thing, to avenge my father and mother's blood!" She took out an ingot of gold and some heavy jewelry from the gold-painted head mask box, held them in both hands, and gave Xie Wufeng a deep bow.

Xie Wufeng took it, threw it on the case, and asked Wen Muqing if anyone saw the assassin last night.

Wen Muqing shook her head: "No one heard anything at night, the girl only sent it at dawn... found out..."

Xie Wufeng asked her a few more words, and learned that the body had been taken away by the investigating officials, because "the death was so strange and cruel that they couldn't make up their minds."Both Mr. Wen and Mrs. Wen's throats were cut with a knife, and at the same time, they were poisoned. Within a day, the corpses turned black and smelly, with pustules the size of fists.Wen Muqing was so frightened that she fainted after just a quick glance.

After Xie Wufeng listened, he was silent for a while, thanking Wen Muqing was about to leave.

Wen Muqing asked with teary eyes: "Does the hero have a clue?"

"Not sure yet." Xie Wufeng pushed open the door, and the sultry breath rushed towards him, making him feel a little irritated.

"Will you avenge my parents?"

"talk later."

Wen Muqing chased after him in a hurry, but she tripped over the complicated long skirt and knocked her knee on the threshold, dripping with blood instantly."Will I see you again in the future?" she asked.

Xie Wufeng turned around, looked at her fixedly, and showed a gentle smile: "I hope not."

At three poles in the sun, Ji Tanyin finally woke up.He rubbed his temples, and in a low voice asked Xiao Er to fetch water to wash his face.Not long after the door opened, someone came in with a basin of hot water. Ji Tanyin lay on the bed and lazily ordered: "Put it on the washstand."

"Aren't you sorry?" A joking voice said, "Ayin can really sleep."

Ji Tanyin sat up straight suddenly: "Brother Xie, why is it you?"

Xie Wufeng smiled without saying a word, sitting on the sidelines watching Ji Tanyin frantically tidying up his clothes and putting on his soap boots.

Ji Tanyin tidied up, scooped up a handful of hot water to wash his face, and heard Xie Wufeng say: "I went out for a stroll before, and met a few officials who escorted Wen Shiyu's body, they told me to take a look, God, it's really scary!"

After hearing this, Ji Tanyin immediately dropped the cloth towel and asked him to explain the situation of the corpse in detail.

Xie Wufeng relayed Wen Muqing's words to him, Ji Tanyin raised his eyebrows slowly, and asked, "What else? Are there worms in the pustule?"

Xie Wufeng said: "I was scared to death, how dare I take a closer look."

Ji Tan believed it was true, and asked Xie Wufeng where the officials were heading, and he wanted to check it out himself.

"Where can we still catch up? They have been running away for more than an hour." Xie Wufeng glanced at him, "Who told you to wake up late?"

Ji Tanyin rubbed her eyes embarrassingly, and retorted weakly: "I'm usually used to getting up early, but today I don't know why, maybe I drank too much last night."

Xie Wufeng was afraid that he would find out the clues, so he asked instead: "You have heard about the condition of the corpse, do you know who killed it?"

Ji Tanyin paced around the room, with a cloud of gloom covering his face, "Murdering people and destroying corpses... Such a vicious method must be taught by Xi Fan. I just can't figure out what their purpose is."

Xie Wufeng said: "Do you still remember that a few days ago at the Hongfu Inn, Miss Wen mentioned that the Commander of the Shandong Metropolitan Government would unite with all colleagues to hand over a booklet to punish Yan Jiaxu?"

Ji Tanyin's heart trembled: "You mean, the Xifan sect colluded with the eunuchs to help them eradicate hostile officials?"

Facing the beam of light coming in from the window, Xie Wufeng squinted his eyes and stretched, and said with a smile: "I don't understand anything, it's just nonsense."