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The night wind blew into the house through the window, idly brushing the corners of his clothes, Meng Huaize sat by the window and looked at the small courtyard in the night, the bustle of the day faded away, now only Wu Ting and A Lian were left. Clean up in the yard.

Meng Huaize's small courtyard can't keep too many people, and all the disciples are already able to take care of themselves. They come to see him during the day and help with some things. At night, they all go back to their residences in the city. Only Wu Ting and Ah Lian will stay here at night.

Wu Ting was because Cai Zhi insisted on letting him stay, and Meng Huaize's health was getting worse and worse. Cai Zhi couldn't let go of her heart. She couldn't often visit Meng Huaize in person, so she left her youngest son with him.As for Ah Lian, he is still young, only sixteen or seventeen years old, and his family is far away in the capital, so he lives with Meng Huaize in this small courtyard every day.

Wu Ting packed up all the herbs, walked over, and asked Meng Huaize through the window: "Master, are you tired, let me serve you and rest?"

Ah Lian snatched it over, and said unconvinced: "No, you were the one who served Master yesterday, and it's my turn tonight."

He is young, has the impulsiveness of a young man but is naive. He has not experienced too many things in the world. He grew up listening to Meng Huaize's name in his ears. In the highest position, I always rush to get closer to Master.

Wu Ting pushed his head away: "No, you are clumsy. You almost stumbled when you pushed Master through the door yesterday. It doesn't matter if you are thick-skinned. What if you hurt Master?"

When Meng Huaize was mentioned, Alian couldn't say anything to refute, but he was still not convinced, so he stared angrily at Wu Ting.

Wu Ting lifted his chin proudly: "What are you looking at, why don't you hurry up and clean up those straw baskets."

A Lian couldn't talk to him, so he had to turn to Meng Huaize for help: "Master, look at him."

Meng Huaize just laughed, and then said to Wu Ting: "You can go to rest tonight, don't worry about me."

Wu Ting and A Lian became anxious together.

"How can I do that!" Wu Ting frowned tightly, "Master, you..."

Meng Huaize's health was so bad that he couldn't go to bed by himself.

Meng Huaize shook his head gently at him: "I said, don't worry about me."

His attitude was still gentle as usual, but Wu Ting abruptly stopped talking.He knew that no one could change what Meng Huaize had decided.

A Lian wanted to say something more, but Wu Ting grabbed him.

When the two of them cleaned up the courtyard and came to say goodnight to Meng Huaize, Wu Ting paused for a while and asked Meng Huaize, "Master, it's cool in the night, shall I close the window for you?"

Meng Huaize said, "No need."

When the two finally left, after a while, Ah Lian turned back and said to Meng Huaize: "Master, if you have anything to do at night, you should call me. I won't sleep to death. As soon as you call, I will come over."

Meng Huaize felt warm in his heart, and said with a smile: "Sleep well at night, and you still have to grow your body."

Ah Lian walked away step by step.

After a while, the lights in Wu Ting and A Lian's rooms next door were also turned off.

The courtyard finally quieted down, the night fell quietly, only the wind, only the moon, only the vast and endless years flowing slowly.

Meng Huaize thought that this child, A Lian, the son of a prince, a nobleman, has such a soft and kind heart, and he is growing up safely in his countryside at this time, but if he dies later, this child should come back again. In that prosperous capital, at that time, will you encounter all kinds of difficulties...

He wanted to worry about the child, but through the night, he looked at the wall facing the window, and as he watched, Ah Lian gradually faded from his mind, and another name gradually emerged.

Wu Yue.

He read these two words slowly in his heart, again and again, as if sucking on the only bit of honey in this life, he only dared to hide in a dark place that no one knew, secretly, Licking over and over again.

A large piece of medicinal herbs outside the courtyard is like a sea under the moonlight, and the wind blows across the wilderness, blowing the afterimages of the village many years ago, and blowing the distant lingering sound.

Not long after Wu Yue left, Ming Hua and Qing Er also left.

It was also night at that time, someone knocked on the door, Meng Huaize opened it, and outside was the officers and soldiers who led the search.It's just that this time he didn't wear armor, but was dressed in civilian clothes. The first sentence at the beginning was: "Doctor Meng, don't be afraid."

He stepped aside, and another person came out behind him, and made a long bow to Meng Huaize.

Before Meng Huaize realized what happened, Minghua and Qing'er, who were hiding in the room watching secretly, had already opened the door and walked out, calling out to the strange man, "General Li."

When the two sides met, they both burst into tears.

After a long time, after several people calmed down and sat down around the table, Meng Huaize roughly understood the reason.

This general surnamed Li was originally the person who escorted Minghua's mother and son, but after the war on the way back, the two sides separated, and Minghua's mother and son ended up living here.The officer and soldier that day was named Yan Zhu, who was originally an eyeliner planted by General Li. On the day of the search, he felt something was wrong, and contacted General Li when he returned. When he arrived, the two of them rushed here overnight.

In this short explanation, they all omitted the introduction of each other's identities. Who is the so-called General Li, who is his side, and who is Yan Zhu inserted into the government to fight against? They didn't say anything. Meng Huaize didn't ask either.

They set off before daylight.

The two went to guard outside the courtyard first, only Minghua mother and son were left in the courtyard to bid farewell to Meng Huaize.Minghua asked Meng Huaize: "Doctor Meng, are you really not going with us?"

Meng Huaize shook his head.

Minghua bit his lip and thought for a while, then said to Meng Huaize: "In this case, Doctor Meng, you should leave here quickly! Within two months, there will be wars here."

Meng Huaize was startled, but after a while, he shook his head and smiled, not knowing whether he was laughing at himself or the world.

"Thank you." He looked at the ignorant and dark sky, his voice was as calm as ever, "but this world is huge, where can we go now?"

Minghua followed him to look at the surrounding night, and there was also a long silence, until there was a urging knock on the door outside the courtyard, Minghua came back to his senses, and said goodbye to Meng Huaize.

Opening the courtyard door, Qing'er followed Minghua out of the threshold, but stopped again. He turned back, ran to stop in front of Meng Huaize, and looked up at him.

"Master." He is still a child, but in the ignorant night, he looked at Meng Huaize with extremely firm eyes, "If we meet again one day, the sky will be sunny and there will be no cloud in the sky."

Meng Huaize smiled and patted his firm shoulders: "Okay, I'll wait for that day."

It's like completing a mutual agreement.

As Minghua said, only one month later, the surroundings are full of precarious images, people are full of panic, and the news about the war changes and changes every day, and it is passed on and passed on. What remains unchanged is that the flames of war are burning more and more closer.

Meng Huaize went door to door in the village to persuade people to leave. At the beginning, most people thought he was troublesome and didn't really take it seriously.Their ancestors grew up here for generations. The mountains they climbed, the rivers they descended, and the ground they fell on when they were young, their wives, children, parents, and the roots that have been passed down from generation to generation are all here. How can it be so easy? Abandoned?So I hoped for tomorrow, hoping that when I wake up the next morning, the army in armor and holding on to the sword has retreated to other places, and they can continue to spend their lives peacefully in the place where their ancestors grew up. lifetime.

But only one month later, these hopes were completely shattered.

More and more people choose to leave, flee south, north, to places they think are safer.The village became more and more empty, and there were only a few pillars of smoke left in the evening.

One night, Li Zheng and his wife came to Meng Huaize and asked him to persuade the stubborn old man at home. No matter what they said, the old man refused to leave.

When Meng Huaize went, the old man was lying on a chair in the courtyard, shaking a cattail fan, looking at the moon above his head.

A big jujube tree was planted in the yard, and the moon was hidden among the leaves of the jujube tree, bright and dark for a while.He saw Meng Huaize, beckoned him to sit down, and pointed to the moon above his head with a cattail fan: "When I was young, in this courtyard, my grandpa liked to point to the moon and tell me stories at night. The moon is so bright at that time, and there are so many stories...In the blink of an eye, seven or eighty years have passed."

He fanned the cool wind a few times, and sang: "There is a White Jade Palace in the sky..."

Meng Huaize quietly listened to him finish singing, and then said: "One day, I can come back again."

The old man laughed: "Huai Ze, the old man is 83 this year, and the only thing he wants is to die here."

He turned around, looked at Meng Huaize, and asked what Meng Huaize had asked before: "My family is here, I grew up watching Chuan Jishan, you say, where can I go if I leave? "

Where can I go?Meng Huaize didn't know.

Li Zheng sent Meng Huaize out, and walked with Meng Huaize for a long time. Meng Huaize urged him to go back several times, but he just smiled and said: "Go again, there are no people in the village now, such a dark road is scary, I will accompany Doctor Meng." Walk a little longer."

When they parted, Li Zheng stomped on the soil under his feet and said, "Since the old man won't leave, our family will also stay with him, and we can let him go as we please."

Meng Huaize didn't know what to say, so he could only say dryly: "One day I will figure it out."

He took two steps forward, Li Zheng stopped him suddenly and asked him: "Doctor Meng, what about you? Why don't you go?"

Meng Huaize paused for a moment, then turned around and smiled: "Everyone has a reason."

He turned around and walked forward. After a while, Li Zheng shouted from a distance behind him: "Doctor Meng, then we can all live well here!"

Meng Huaize waved his hand at him, as if he heard it.

But such an agreement was broken in the early morning of the next day, and they couldn't all live well after all.

Mr. Li is dead.

There was no wound on his body, and there was no pain on his face. He lay on the bed and passed away peacefully in his sleep.He didn't want to drag his children down, and he didn't want to leave the wind and moon on Chuanji Mountain. After all, he stayed here forever as he wished in this life.

In the evening, Meng Huaize sat by the tomb of Xinlong on Chuanji Mountain, watching Li Zheng's family drive away with their horses and horses. The horses snorted, the wheels rolled the ground, and they went away. The setting sun in the distance was like blood, and they didn't know the way forward. geometry.

Many years ago, he was a foreign child who settled down here; many years later, he watched the people here leave one by one, and finally only himself remained.