beg for chivalry

[The extra episode of Qixi Festival, the timeline is after the Golden Crow and the Jade come out of the snowy field]

There were occasional hoarse calls of jackdaws outside the window, sharply tearing at the window pane.The room was dry and cold, and the sky glimpsed through the gap in the window was pale, sometimes grayed by a few dark clouds.

When Jin Wu woke up, his whole body trembling, he shrank into the thick mattress and hugged his arms tightly.The lingering, lingering wind in the snow field seemed to still be heard in my ears, the snow was shaking off my body, and the white wolf howled at the sky, circling around and waiting for an opportunity to bite.He smelled blood, cold and dry.

Snow, snow, snow, wherever you go, you can see pale snow.The snow field seemed endless, and he dragged the board numbly forward, stretching out his cracked hands to the vast white distance during the difficult trek and even crawling.There is nothing in this world that can teach him to be afraid, but winter is one of them.Fortunately, this time it was no longer in the wilderness of the northwest, although it was still cold, but there was some warmth in my body.

"Are you awake, master?"

An old voice came from beside him.Jin Wu turned his head to look, and saw an old woman leaning against the edge of the bed, holding a lake pen in her hand, dipping in stone yellow to add color to her clothes.The old woman had white hair and chicken skin, broad arms and round waist, but her eyes were narrow and narrow, revealing a faint viciousness.Jin Wu's gaze stayed on her face for a long time, and he could vaguely discern the eyebrows and eyes of the past, and it took a long time before he said hoarsely:

"...Aunt Mu?"

This person is exactly Mu Youfang who used to be a servant in the Jin Mansion, and he has not seen him since he entered Houtianlou, and now it has been nearly ten years.But he clearly remembered that Mu Youfang was a beautiful woman in the past, even though she was over [-] years old, she still cherished her beautiful appearance, and often used sweet rosin and sand ginger excavated from Wanyi Valley Coupled with one or two pairs of rare things to beautify the face, it seems that there is only Hua Xinnianhua.When Jinwu was young, she was always childish, and preferred to call her "Aunt Mu", and often made Mu Youfang so angry that she would beat him with a broom.

But now that she hasn't seen her for nearly ten years, Mu Youfang has turned into a heavy old woman.Considering that she was already seventy years old at this time, it was not a miracle.

Aunt Mu sneered: "The memory is still as good as before."

Jin Wu asked confusedly: "...Where am I...?"

He moved his hands and feet slightly, only to feel that his bones were still piercingly cold.He remembered dragging Yu Qiuxia, who was covered in bone fractures, trekking on the long snow field before he passed out, and he didn't know how long he had been walking, his body was in pain and numbness like a collapse.

"Feng Yuan. You are a bit stubborn, and you have dragged someone down the Tianshan cliff for so long." Aunt Mu pursed her mouth, "Feng Yuan is a bit of a wolf hunter in the snow field, and he saw you and Wang Xiaoyuan at a glance. You fell into the snow, surrounded by white wolves. If it was a few minutes later, the few taels of meat on your body would have been their meal! Fortunately, there was Huang Mo in Fengyuan during that time, So I hired a car to take you two back."

The old woman got up, put the needle and thread into the bamboo tube, and opened the two doors.The cold wind howled in, rushing towards his face like a knife. "Lie down for a while, and I'll bring you some soup."

"Qingfengzhang Huangmo... is the third in the Jianghu list?" Jin Wu only felt his mind was muddled, and muttered.

"That's right, he has a good relationship with the master. When you were young, you often came to the mansion to tease you, and you liked to call people nicknames, which made him blow his beard and stare." Aunt Mu smiled bitterly again. "However, he recognized the Ruyi pattern on your knife. Seeing that you haven't been seen for ten years, you actually went to do a lot of deeds for Houtianlou! If the master and wife know about it, the cover will be lifted Come break your leg!"

Jin Wu swept his gaze into the bedroom. The red sandalwood round table, lacquered wood beam, and mahogany incense table looked unfamiliar, but they were all things that were available in the mansion ten years ago, and suddenly a familiar dull pain came to his heart.He lifted the quilt with difficulty, got up and got out of bed, but suddenly staggered and fell to the ground.

Aunt Mu came over, grabbed his arm and threw him on the bed, cursing: "Who wants you to move? One of your legs was frozen and almost sawed off. If you really want to be a one-legged person, then go ahead Go for a walk!"

A piercing pain climbed up his body, Jinwu looked down, and saw that the skin and flesh of one leg was bruised, and he didn't feel much when he touched it, but the tingling pain was wandering in the bone marrow.He vaguely remembered that when he was in the snow field, he tied the hemp rope circle tightly to his leg and dragged the board.Maybe it took a long time to pass out, and this leg was badly frostbitten, so it looked like this.

"Where's Wang Xiaoyuan?" He asked with a cold expression on his face.

"Hey, I'm alive. I just don't remember anything, like a fool."

Aunt Mu sneered, and went to the east kitchen outside the door.Seeing her walking for a while, Jinwu moved to the head of the bed and pulled over the clothes railing, pulled a wooden stick from above to support the ground, and limped out of the house.

It was really too cold outside, the cold wind swept through the whole body, and there was light snow drifting down.The golden crow's teeth were chattering, and it seemed that after crawling back from the snow field, his cold symptoms became a little worse, and walking on the corridor was like entering the Hell.

This is a cramped but not cold courtyard. Once you enter the courtyard, there are many bottles and groceries piled up, and there is even no place to stay.Zhu Qizhu shrank his head back, and was shaking every now and then.

Jin Wu limped and shuffled over there, and saw a servant in plain cloth sitting on a wooden chair there, gnawing at the pot helmet in his hand blankly.The dry bun was frozen stiff, he gnawed on it for half a day before leaving a slight tooth mark, but he still kept his head on the cake as if he had lost his temper.

"...Wang Xiaoyuan."

After a long silence, Jin Wu murmured.

He suddenly felt a little overwhelmed, now he was only wearing a single shirt, covered with a cloak.There is no sword or iron dart in his hand, and there is no Raksha ghost face on his face. This meeting is just like the time when they met in the Golden Mansion ten years ago.

Jin Wu stumbled over and called again: "Wang Xiaoyuan."

The servant didn't respond, and continued to gnaw on the dry bun, his brows knit into knots.Jin Wu yelled again: "Wang Xiaoyuan...!" Throwing the stick he was leaning on in his hand, he stretched out his hand and pulled his shoulder violently.

The servant seemed to be frightened, and the pot helmet in his hand fell to his lap.He raised his head in a daze, and just bumped into a pair of black and dark birds. Jin Wu stared at him, as if trying to dig out some unspeakable secret from his eyes.But he was confused at that moment, because the person in front of him was a stranger, but looked at him coldly and sadly.In an instant, the wind and snow seemed to subside in all directions, and all the noises in the world turned into silence. He could only hear his heart beating restlessly, as if it was going to pop out of his chest.

He looked at the Golden Crow anxiously, and said in a whisper:

"……Who are you?"

Jin Wu didn't speak, but the hand on his shoulder suddenly tightened a little.The two of them stared at each other for a long time, watching the white snow fall slowly from their sides.Jin Wu glanced at him silently, his legs were still bound with splints, and the muslin wrapped around his body could be seen through the gaps in his clothes.This is the mark left by Yubai Knife's third knife on his body. After the knife was released, Yu Qiuxia's mind seemed to be torn apart and turned into powder.

After being silent for a long time, Jinwu seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, slightly squatted down, put his eyes on the same level as him, and asked flatly: "Then what about you, who are you?"

The servant carefully picked up the dry bun that fell on his lap, put it to his mouth and chewed it dryly, rubbing the crumbs of the cake, but his eyeballs kept turning in panic, and he whispered after a long time:

"…do not know."

"You don't even remember your own name?"

"En." Wang Xiaoyuan nodded blankly.When Jin Wu stared at him expressionlessly, he shrank his neck timidly, trying to avoid the sharp and unstoppable gaze, and said honestly. "When I woke up, someone gave me a pie and told me to sit here and not run, I'm here."

That person should be referring to Aunt Mu.Jin Wu sighed, suddenly feeling a little helpless.Yu Qiuxia forgot the past and became a complete idiot, not knowing whether it was a blessing or a curse.The scene of the battle between Tianshanmen and Houtianlou in the cliff battle was too tragic, it might be a good thing not to remember.

Jin Wu was in a daze when suddenly Wang Xiaoyuan asked in a daze: "Do you know who I am?"

"……Know."

"Then who am I?" Wang Xiaoyuan pointed at himself, blinking his eyes and asked.

"Wang Xiaoyuan. This is your name."

"What about you, what's your name?" Wang Xiaoyuan asked him aggrievedly, "What are you doing staring at me, so fierce, do I owe you a lot of money?"

Thinking about it, there are indeed quite a lot.Jin Wu rolled his eyes, and suddenly remembered that this idiot had been eating and drinking for free at his house since before, he looked like a serious servant, but in fact he was just a simple scumbag.I don't do much work. I like to touch tiles on walls and trees to catch birds. My hands and feet are not clean, and I often touch things from street stalls.

So he nodded, straightened up with an air of arrogance, and said: "It's really quite a lot. It's so many that you can't finish it in your life. My name is Jinwu, and I'm your boss. You can follow me back to the mansion for a while. Do some work, and there will be monthly money for you."

Wang Xiaoyuan lowered his head, repeating the name as if pondering: "Golden Crow...Golden Crow." Hearing this, Jinwu felt a little uncomfortable, but seeing him thoughtful, he hoped that he could think of something, so he asked :"What's wrong."

"No, I just want to ask how this name came about..." Wang Xiaoyuan scratched his head shyly, rubbed his fingers on his clothes and wrote a few strokes, "Well... I'm not good at writing, can you tell me how to write?"

Jinwu sighed again in his heart, this person didn't think about it after all, "'Jade Rabbit can't be placed, Jinwu can't be caged', Jinwu means the sun." He grabbed Wang Xiaoyuan's hand suddenly, and scribbled a few words in his palm. Draw, looked up at him, "Do you remember?"

Naturally, this illiterate idiot didn't remember, scratching his head and looking at Jinwu in confusion.It was really terrible that the servant couldn't remember the master's name, so Jin Wu also felt helpless, grabbed his clothes and dragged him into the yard.Wang Xiaoyuan panicked and couldn't figure out why this man dragged him away ferociously as soon as he met him, flopping around like a stranded fish for a while.

When the two stood still in the courtyard, Jinwu shivered in the cold wind, wrapped his cloak tightly tightly, raised his head and pointed to the sky: "Did you see it?" Sunlight like a veil spilled from the cracks in the dark clouds, so he nodded obediently.

"Yes, that's what my name means. Houyi shot the sun, and the sun turned into a three-legged crow and fell. If you forget it later, just look at it, and you will remember it."

When saying this, Jin Wu was in a trance for a moment, and lowered his hands sadly.

He suddenly remembered the past when he was young, when Marquis Ning Yuan held him in his arms to watch the sun rise in the courtyard, and said these words to him with a smile.He also promised him that if he grows up to be a weak crown, he will be given the word "Bingming", and hope that his life will be as bright as the sun and stars in the future, and the clouds will be bright and the jade will shine.It's a pity that most of the things in this world will not go according to his wishes. Now that the year of the crown ceremony is approaching, the person who took his name is no longer alive.

Wang Xiaoyuan nodded in a daze. "I remember." Jin Wu was looking down at the snow in his hand, and the jade dust fell gently into the palm of his hand, and it turned into crystal beads of tears in a short while. cloud of dust.He said casually, "Do you really remember?"

"Well, but my brain is not very good, and I feel like I always forget things." Wang Xiaoyuan said anxiously, "If things go wrong in the future, don't blame me too much, young master."

"..." Jin Wu raised his head slowly, and Wang Xiaoyuan saw his eyes tremble slightly, as if there were blue waves rippling.He paused for a while before saying, "You... called me..."

That was the case ten years ago, and it hasn't changed now.When standing in the snow, he seemed to be able to hear himself and Wang Xiaoyuan fighting in the snow ten years ago in a trance, and it seemed that he could only hear the cold wind whistling, and the surroundings were silent.Everything seems to be the same as before, and it seems to have changed completely.But at this moment, he just stood there in amazement and speechless, staring at Wang Xiaoyuan in a daze.

"I call you Young Master. Aren't you my boss? It's better to call you Young Master?"

Wang Xiaoyuan scratched his head and giggled silly.He still looked like he couldn't remember anything, he was so simple and silly, like a piece of plain paper.When Jin Wu looked at him, he would suddenly think of that day, when the snow was flying heavily, the two of them were trekking in the boundless snow field.At that time, Yu Qiuxia was slumped on the wooden plank limply with bone fractures all over her body, and told him over and over again not to forget his name in confusion and pain.

How can there be such a stupid person in this world?Even if he forgot his first and last name, he still insisted on clinging to him.If fate is an ink line drawn in the book of life and death, then now they have circled around and returned to the original point.

Jin Wu smiled slightly while sighing.The snow fluttered like fluff, and the two of them were freezing cold all over their bodies, but they felt a little warm in their hearts.

"No, just call it that."