beg for chivalry

The fire is raging, and the sky is full of smoke.The hot flames covered the sky and engulfed the living room.

Yu Yiwei's head was dark and his heart was full of anxiety. He tried his best to drag Shui Shijiu out from under the roof beam.Shui Shijiu's leg may have been broken, and he was paralyzed on the ground twisting in a strange posture.There were still several sword wounds on his body, and his skin was torn apart.

Looking at this person, Yu Yiwei felt awkward.He still remembered the cold light in Shui Jiujiu's eyes, and the appearance of a sword piercing through his palm, and he couldn't help but feel chills in his heart.If this person is rescued, it may be even more difficult for him to walk in Houtianlou in the future.

"Uh... Brother Nineteen, are you... still able to walk?" Yu Yiwei was holding a brown bag containing 100 taels of silver in one hand, and his veins were bursting out in the other hand, pulling the heavy body desperately, exhausted sweating a lot.He stopped for a while, hesitated for a moment, and spoke.

Shui Nineteen spoke hoarsely, still with a strange voice: "If I can walk, do I still need your help?"

Yu Yiwei was speechless, indeed.Seeing that Shui Jiujiu's leg was covered with scars and the pain was so deep, he probably couldn't move a step.But his strength is very weak, in the past when he was at the Tianshan Gate, he was a fool waiting to die, but now it is really difficult to drag a man.

The flames are still leaping, the sky is scorching, and the heat is rolling.The hall collapsed with a terrifying roar, and the eyes turned into an endless sea of ​​flames, which were as bright as blood.Yu Yiwei was so anxious that she dragged Shui Shijiu to move towards the door, but the short few steps seemed endless, no matter how hard she walked, she couldn't reach the end.

The thick smoke wriggled into the nostrils like snakes and insects, choking Yu Yiwei coughing and wheezing again and again.Shui Jiujiu, who was dragged on the ground, groaned uncomfortably at first, but then remained motionless, as if a piece of heavy iron was embedded in the ground.

Turning his head, he saw that the assassin's skin was wounded, and the blood had merged into streams, dragging bloodstains on the ground like a ink pen.

Yu Yiwei squeezed the words from his throat with difficulty: "Nineteen...Shui Nineteen! You wake up first, don't sleep!"

"If you fell asleep here, I would have to pay you back even my own coffin! You asked me to save you, so it's better for you, just go and dream about Duke Zhou!"

He roared at the top of his lungs, choked in a lot of smoke, and coughed until his face was full of tears, so he bent down and dragged Shui Shijiu to crawl forward.The burning wood chips fell in a mixed manner, like a shower amidst the splash of sparks.

After shouting several times in a row, Shui Nineteen finally made a movement, half-opening his eyelids and saying, "Cold..."

Obviously in this sea of ​​flames, the assassin shouted coldly.Yu Yi didn't look back, only to see that his legs were bleeding like a fountain, and his face was as pale as plain paper.

"Hold on a little longer, or... I'll leave you... here to warm yourself by the fire!"

Shui Nineteen smiled back, and said wearily, "...forget it."

"What's the matter?"

"I'm greedy, I shouldn't ask you to save me." Shui Nineteen let go of his hand, his eyes began to lose sight, and he murmured, "You go, Huo Seventeen, I can't ask you to die with me."

For a moment, Yu Yi's lips trembled, but he was speechless.Shui Shijiu was not smiling on his usual cold smiling face, but there seemed to be a faint smile in his eyes.

"Fuck your mother!" Finally, Yu Yiwei couldn't help roaring, "You are the one who asked me to save someone! You are the one who asked me to let go! Can you give me a word? Do you know how much I have spent trying to procrastinate?" Do you? Do you want me to give up halfway?"

Shui Nineteen intermittently said: "When you give up halfway...isn't that much?"

"That night... you followed us to kill people in the wine shop in Chengyi, but you couldn't draw your sword. Although you came out of Shizhadi, there are not many assassins who are as cowardly and timid as you. Most of them crossed the line and opened After the ring of killing, there is nothing to be afraid of, but then I saw that you are just...a blunt knife." He whispered softly, but his frowning brows were loosening a little bit, and the cold light in his eyes Refreshed.

"No matter how polished it is...it's not material for killing people."

Yu Yiwei listened silently, pulling Shui Jiujiu's body with his sore arms.

This person is really too heavy, if this continues, both of them will be trapped in this sea of ​​flames.Yu Yiwei was sweating profusely and almost dried out by the flames.He suddenly felt his throat dry, and looked at the brown bag in his arms, which contained a heavy 100 taels of silver.

It was the 100 taels of silver that he had saved with humiliation, and he had put a lot of hard work and sweat on it. He thought that after sneaking out of Houtianlou, he would send it back to Bingzhou to buy a house for his father.But now his hands are trembling, if he holds the 100 taels of silver, he can only drag Shui Shijiu with one hand.

In the end, with a cruel heart, he untied the brown bag crazily, grabbed a few pieces of silver from it, stuffed it into his narrow pocket, and threw 100 taels of silver into the flames with a wave of his hand.

Shui Nineteen opened his eyes slightly, and said in surprise, "You... are crazy!"

With a light hand, Yu Yiwei finally freed both hands to hold his arm, and dragged it out of the hall with all his strength, squeezing out tears between gnashing teeth:

"Yeah, I'm crazy. That's 100 taels of silver, the rest of my life!"

Shouting, he exhaustedly dragged the assassin out of the flames.The mountain post with gray tiles and white walls collapsed in the blood-colored sea of ​​flames, turning into scorched earth bit by bit, and the remaining flying gray and black butterflies danced in the air.Amidst the loud bang, the clash of swords and halberds stopped abruptly, leaving only trembling reverberations.

Yu Yiwei moved in a dazed but painful way.He didn't want to kill people, and he didn't want to leave him dead.It would be best for everyone in the world to pass away secretly behind his back, so that he wouldn't see anyone begging for mercy before his eyes and then dying.

The living room is like burnt firewood, and the haystack and silver are reduced to ashes in the raging flames.The two of them were paralyzed by the wall like dead fish, and their bodies were as black as if they had been fished out of charcoal.The slightly cool mountain wind poured into the mouth, slightly dissipating the scorching heat inside.

It seems that after a fight, the Tube assassins temporarily evacuated the place, and the loud shouts and killings just now disappeared, and there were no crows and sparrows in the surrounding area, and the emptiness was a little lonely.This time, he set fire to a mountain post, and diverted Houtianlou's sight from Zizhou. Presumably, this matter would satisfy Wang Tai.It's a pity that Yu Yiwei, who is caught in the middle, suffers, only doing things that are not human inside and out.

Shui Nineteen took a few breaths at this moment, and said faintly, "I mean... you've spent so much time running back here just to get 100 taels of silver, you're really crazy."

Yu Yi was stunned for a moment, then squatted down slumped, covered his face with his hands for a long time, and suddenly burst into tears.

"..." Shui Nineteen got up silently, tore off pieces of clothes to bind the wound to stop the bleeding, and stared at Yu Yiwei with strange eyes. "what are you doing?"

After this question, Yu Yiwei burst into tears: "What do you know! I have lived frugally for the past two months, and ate some chaffy cakes, just to save some money and use it. Now it's good, I lost it all to save you! "It didn't count that he cried, he beat his chest and stamped his feet, and rolled on the ground like a slapstick, as if he was burned by fire.

Shui Jiujiu was taken aback for a moment, perhaps because he was frightened by his poor manner.Although Yu Yiwei used to be a wine-loving and flower-loving young man, but since his family was backward, his life was not better than the day, and later he even learned how to break a dollar into three halves.

After a long silence, Shui Nineteen spoke. "...I compensate you."

Yu Yi raised his head in a daze, his eye sockets were still red from being rubbed, and there were a few tears that were about to fall.He suddenly remembered that the assassins in Houtianlou were all free of money. The monthly payment was 50 taels of silver, and sometimes they could receive a lot more if they were picked up by Emperor Shiling, Shengwenling and orders.

"Go three steps north from the well, and dig three feet down." Shui Nineteen pouted toward the wall, "There's a soil shovel over there, dig it yourself."

Good fellow, this man actually buried a small gold warehouse in the ground!Yu Yi regained his energy, ran to the well, grabbed the shovel by the wall and dug into the ground, digging the soil.He had saved 100 taels of silver after only a few months in Houtian Building. Shui Shijiu seemed to have been in the building for more than two years, so he must have saved a fortune for the enemy.

Shui Shijiu saw him digging the soil, dug out a deep hole in a short while, and said sarcastically, "Just now when you dragged me out of the living room, I didn't see that you had such great strength."

Yu Yiwei kept working hard, pursed his mouth at him, stared at him and said: "I just don't care about wealth, what's the matter?"

After digging about three feet, the soil shovel hit a hard object.Yu Yiwei was overjoyed: "Yes!" He squatted down and patted the dust from the bottom of the pit, and took out a clay pot.

The clay pot was sealed with red mud and sealed with paper.The twigs on the jar are complicated and exquisite, and it is worth a lot of money.Yu Yiwei carefully carried it out of the pit, her heart was as sweet as honey.Shui Nineteen wants to give him his money!

But when I put it near my ear and shook it, I only heard the sound of gurgling water, but it wasn't the sound of coins hitting the wall of the jar.

Yu Yiwei was silent for a while, then shook it cautiously, but there was still only the sound of water inside.His smile froze a bit, he turned his head and asked Shui Nineteen: "...Isn't it money?"

Shui Nineteen sneered: "When did I tell you it was money?"

These words instantly made Yu Yiwei shriveled, staggered back from the hole by the well, and collapsed on the ground weakly.He thought that Shui Shijiu would show kindness and give him half of the monthly money he saved, but now it seems that this person is also stingy, and he is unwilling to give half of the money to the person who saved his life.

The assassin spread his hands to him, Yu Yiwei took the pot over in a daze.Shui Nineteen patted off the sealing mud, tore off the cloth rope wrapped around the mouth of the tank, and removed the sealing paper.All of a sudden, a strange and delicate fragrance came to the nostrils, like a curling east wind, like a fragrant mist in the sky.

"It's wine." Shui Shijiu said.He staggered over, took out two copper cups from the pit, washed them with well water, poured the mellow wine into the cup, handed it to Yu Yiwei, and smiled. "I don't have any money, so I can only pay you a cup."

Yu Yiwei scolded Shui Nineteen bloody in his heart, what he treasured was money, not wine.But after he took a sip in a daze, the aroma of the wine was refreshing, as if a bright red flower spewed out from his heart, his whole body was soaked in the fragrance of the flower, as if begonias were soaked in the rain, and they surrounded him in clusters.

"This is... Tangxiamian!" Yu Yi couldn't help sighing after taking a few sips, his eyes sparkling.This is a famous wine from Haijin, and it is said that a bucket costs ten thousand dollars.In the past, when the Duke of England was still there, he once stole a taste. At that time, he was a child in rich clothes and well-fed. Although he was afraid of the spicy wine, he was still intimidated by the strange fragrance.

Shui Shijiu smiled on his face, but the smile was not as cold as in the past: "The crabapple has no fragrance, which is a pity in the world. But if you get this wine, there will be no crabapple in the world without fragrance."

Hearing what he said, Yu Yiwei hurriedly took a few sips, feeling as if she was floating in the air, like walking on the clouds.In an instant, the depressing things of the mountain post being burned and the loss of 100 taels of silver were all forgotten.

"It's quite expensive, isn't it?" He pouted and muttered, "Look at you buried two altars, don't you spend all your monthly money on them?"

Yu Yiwei thought to himself, unexpectedly, Shui Shijiu was so tight and cute.All the money he saved on weekdays was exchanged for wine. This man was withdrawn and suspicious, and no one wanted to drink with him, so the wine jar he exchanged was buried by the well all the time.

"I don't like anything in my life, but I like to drink some small wine." Shui Shijiu raised his glass to him, his eyes were gentle, "Today is my thank you, thank you for pulling me out of the sea of ​​fire." The assassin paused, Teased, "Thank you also for throwing away the 100 taels of silver to save me."

When the copper cups collide, there is a crisp sound.The two of them sat and drank by the mountain post surrounded by raging fire, and they were somewhat contented in the rain and ashes.After being silent for a while, Shui Jiujiu immediately asked again: "I just thought of a sentence, do you know why?"

"What is it?" Yu Yiwei asked, confused.

Shui Nineteen smiled slightly, "I borrowed Su Ziqing's poem to write a sentence: 'I have a bottle of wine, and I want to give it to relatives and friends.'"

Yu Yi paused for a moment without holding the lamp, and stared at Shui Jiujiu in a daze.He was a little uncertain about the meaning of Shui Nineteen's words.

"I buried this wine here, but it's a pity that no one can come to drink with it." Shui Nineteen sighed and said with a smile. "After today's incident, I will treat you as a friend."

Hearing this word, his heart was startled suddenly, Yu Yiwei's brows and eyes trembled slightly, he always felt that he had heard this word from Yan Jiubian before.Suoyigui once lamented and regretted the past, and bluntly said that it is impossible to have friends in Houtianlou.It seems that there shouldn't be love and stumbling in this blood river hell, otherwise it will end up in a cocoon and ruin its life in vain.

But he looked at Shui Nineteen as if he was sincere, and he didn't mean to deceive him, so he was a little uncertain for a while.

Seeing that he was silent, Shui Shijiu frowned, pushed him with his elbow, and said coldly, "I drank all the wine I gave you, won't you deny it?"

"No, I won't..." Yu Yiwei waved his hands in a panic.

"That's good! Drinking alone is really boring, but two people are enough." Shui Nineteen smiled, took away the ghost mask that was vainly covering his face, and leaned in front of him, and quickly covered the two of them with the ghost mask face, whispered. "Since we're friends, I'll help you hide the matter, and that's the end of the deal."

A thunderbolt seemed to explode in his heart, Yu Yiwei turned his head suddenly, almost colliding with the assassin.In the shadow of the ghost face, he saw Shui Shijiu's smiling eyes, which seemed to be glowing and sparkling.But the smile on the corner of Shui Shijiu's mouth is not as mean as before, but seems to be full of peace and joy.

"What did you say...?" He asked in disbelief, as if he was strangled by the throat, and goosebumps appeared all over his body.

"I'll help you hide some things, things you don't want others to know. Take it as a thank you for today, and also as a reward for drinking with me in advance."

The burning sound beside the ear is like thunder, filling the sky and the earth.The flames stretched straight into the sky like a sword halberd, dyeing the horizon a blood red.The hall of the mountain station collapsed to the ground amidst the sound of collapse, tens of thousands of points of ashes were scattered like butterflies.But Yu Yiwei could only hear his own violent heartbeat at this moment, beating his chest every time.

Shui Nineteen opened his mouth and pressed against his cheek, every breath would make him tremble.After covering the ghostly face of the flames, the assassin smiled at him and whispered:

"The... little slippery thief from the Tianshan Gate."