beg for chivalry

A few rays of skylight poured down through the gaps in the thick clouds, falling on the wet and pale face in front of Yu Yiwei's eyes.

With unbelievable feelings, Yu Yiwei looked that face up and down several times, and scanned every inch of skin with his eyes, and then hesitantly said:

"Shui Nineteen... Are you Shui Nineteen?"

The last time he saw Shui Nineteen, the other party had entered the execution room in Houtianlou, his entire back was torn apart by the vine whip, dripping with blood, and seemed to have lost his breath.But now Shui Jiujiu was standing in front of him with an unprovoked ghost face, even though his face was as white as frost, he still had a smile on his lips and looked at him with affection in his eyes.

"I haven't seen you for a few days, so you don't recognize me?" Shui Nineteen said with a sly smile, "It seems that the assassins in the building are all born exactly the same, but it's a bad thing. If you are not careful, you will be confused." Take a look and forget about me."

This is not the place to talk.Yu Yi did not hastily retracted his sword back to its sheath, and Shui Jiu also covered his face with the copper mask.The two of them braved the torrential rain and quickly walked back to the shadow of the rocks. Yu Bingzi was waiting there anxiously. When his eyes touched Shui Jiujiu's ghostly face, he jumped suddenly, and his eyes were quickly stained with hostility.

Yu Yiwei pointed at Shui Nineteen quickly and stumbled, and said to Yu Bingzi, "This is...uh...my friend. Although he is an assassin of Houtianlou, he is also...a good drinking buddy."

The little junior sister was confused, but she didn't comment.

The three of them huddled together, whispering in the dank darkness.Yu Yi didn't look at Shui Shijiu for a while, and said worriedly, "How did you escape?"

Shui Nineteen paused for a moment: "Use your feet to walk out."

"I didn't ask this question!" Yu Yiwei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "I saw that the group of Houtianlou assassins suspected you of communicating with the enemy, and you were beaten so hard by them that you bled so much that you couldn't even move. Didn't you get imprisoned by them?" Are you watching closely, and how did you escape?"

The assassin smiled, "Because I was worried about you, I ran out."

Yu Yi didn't touch his forehead, he always felt that he couldn't talk to Shui Shijiu when he talked to him.This person is cunning and cunning, and he can always unknowingly stagger the topic of their conversation and lead the conversation elsewhere.

"Isn't this ghost mask yours?" Yu Yiwei asked again, he remembered that ghost ghost was one of the assassins who watched him in the past, he was indifferent but irritable, every time he met this assassin, he seemed to bump into an iron plate.

"I stole his ghost face and sneaked in with them. Anyway, the Ministry of Water has done a lot of work of changing people's skins, and the rest of them didn't even notice." Shui Nineteen stuck out his tongue, and then sighed . "However, I'm seriously injured right now, and I'm talking to you two with a sigh of relief. Hey, Xu Fan, talk more, or I'm going to pass out."

"How did they treat you?" Yu Yiwei was worried, and reached out to touch Shui Jiujiu.But the assassin flashed his hand without any trace, and said with a smile.

"Well, they haven't decided to convict me yet. They can only be punished with broad boards and whips. But I have broken a few bones, and it may not be cured if I drag it on. But it's better than gossiping here. , we'd better escape earlier."

After hearing this, Yu Yiwei was startled, "Are you willing to run away with me?"

He still remembered that when the two of them had a drink last time, he asked Shui Shijiu if he wanted to escape from the blood river hell in Houtianlou.At that time, Shui Nineteen shook his head alienatedly, and rejected him in a low voice, saying that he was an evil ghost who could not return to the mortal world.

Shui Nineteen smiled slightly, but there was a trace of desolation in the smile. "Before a person dies, there are always one or two wishes that they want to fulfill, and so do evil spirits."

The assassin said again, "If you two can trust me, follow me and I will lead you out of this mountain post."

Yu Yi slightly frowned, "Of course you can trust him." He turned his head and whispered to Yu Bingzi, "Junior Sister, do you trust him?"

Junior Sister Pu blinked her eyes: "If Senior Brother believes in him, Bing Zi will be fine."

"It's just... let's talk about it first." Shui Nineteen looked at Hui Ming Tianding and sighed heavily.

"Even the road I lead you to is full of dangers, surrounded by ghosts."

The rain slanted thousands of feet, the wind blew up the mountains, and the branches and grasses danced wildly, blocking the way forward like a demon.The sound of heavy rain is like thunder, echoing between the mountain walls.The three fled in a hurry, Yu Bingzi mixed with Yu Yiwei, and Shui Jiujiu followed behind, showing them the way.

"Go left!" "Go around that tree!" "Turn around the corner!"

Shui Shijiu drank while looking back frequently.He was staring at the rear, which seemed to be surrounded by black mist, where a little bit of shining light was emerging.The evil spirits seemed to be aware of their movement when they were fighting, and the assassin of the Ministry of Water took on the role of rebuke, with sharp eyes, and quickly caught their escape.

Suddenly, Shui Nineteen from behind said again: "Stop."

Yu Bingzi and Yu Yiwei stopped in a daze and turned around.Shui Nineteen lifted the face of the unprovoked ghost slightly, showing a forced and weak smile, "Xu Fan, let's separate here."

His smile was mournful and sad, and his body was shaken by the wind and rain.Yu Yiwei secretly thought it was not good, and suddenly felt melancholy, but pretended to be completely ignorant and asked:

"Why do you want to separate? Don't you want to go with us?"

Shui Nineteen glanced at the fire behind him, and sighed softly. "This is already the boundary of the mountain station. I have escaped with you for a while, and this is my wish. Didn't I tell you? I am an evil spirit born from a river of blood. Where did I come from? where it should go.”

"I have shown you the last way... I have... done my best..."

The assassin's head drooped like a tree trunk suddenly blown off.Yu Yi didn't follow his gaze, and turned his gaze to the ground, only to see bright red blood bands floating among the puddles, like loose silk, spreading from the foot of Shuijiu to the depths of the dense forest.

It was the blood that flowed from Shui Nineteen's body, and the black silk clothes covered his bloodstains and scars.Before talking and laughing with Yu Yi, his body was riddled with holes, and every step was on the road to Huangquan.

Yu Yi didn't lose his face and said: "You...what's the matter with you?"

Shui Nineteen stretched out his hands to hold onto the tree trunk, leaned heavily on it, and said with a vain smile, "As you can see... it's just that I stepped into the Shoufang with two feet, so I sent someone to cover me."

"Let's go, Xu Fan. I can't move anymore, and I can't help you much." Shui Nineteen tremblingly pulled out the sword from his waist, and the white mist from his sigh scattered in the night, "But help me Stopping one or two people who are chasing is no problem."

"No..." Yu Yiwei murmured and shook his head, a corner of his heart seemed to collapse.He suddenly lost control, and said hoarsely with his thick neck, "Follow me! Shui Nineteen! I made friends with you so hard, how could I lose you so easily?"

Shui Jiujiu just raised his head slightly, looked at him with a calm smile, and escaped words from trembling lips and teeth:

"You are also... I finally made friends with you."

Yu Yi didn't look at the lonely figure, suddenly felt like a thorn in his throat.Why didn't he notice Shui Nineteen's injury?Obviously, he had seen Shui Shijiu's dying appearance after being beaten up before, and he had obviously noticed that Shui Shijiu's steps were difficult and extremely heavy.He was always so dull, greedy to save everyone, but ended up with nothing.

Dragging his injured leg, he wanted to rush up and grab Shui Shijiu, dragging him away, but Yu Bingzi grabbed his shoulders.The junior sister's eyes were bright red, and she shouted: "...Senior brother!"

Liang Yu slid down her eyelashes, Yu Yiwei lowered his head in a daze, only to hear Yu Bingzi suppressed his crying and said: "He's telling the truth...it's really... hopeless."

During these two months, Shui Shijiu has been tortured in the torture chamber of Houtianlou, and what he suffers is probably not just the pain of skin peeling and cramping.Yuzhi Xu has been tortured a little longer than him, and he has been turned into a useless person.Therefore, although Shui Nineteen's face showed a calm and calm attitude, he actually endured the pain of breaking his chest and liver.

"Xu Fan." While in a panic, Yu Yiwei suddenly heard Shui Nineteen calling his name softly, and when he raised his eyes, he bumped into his smile, "Don't worry, didn't I tell you? I'm in the left building There was a lottery drawn there, so I won’t die tonight.”

Yu Yiwei listened to his words in a daze.Shui Jiujiu laughed again: "The master on the left said that I was hugged by a water ghost and drowned, so I won't die under the sword of Houtianlou tonight."

"I will find you alive. We are going to Xinghua Village for a drink. Remember to reserve a good seat for me."

In the dim sky, with the dots of fire behind him, the ghost-like assassin showed yearning and anticipation, with a faint smile on his face.Yu Yi didn't recognize his expression, Shui Jiujiu would always look like this when he was giving him a can of Limon wine he had never drunk before, or when the two of them were humming a little tune and slipping shoulder to shoulder into the Qing Garden. Naively and longingly, she raised the corners of her lips at him, like a child who has tasted honey.

"Really? Are you really... do you mean what you say?" Unknowingly, Yu Yiwei was crying and asked, sobbing.

Shui Nineteen smiled lightly and nodded.The sound of chaotic footsteps was getting closer, and the sound of the scabbard rubbing against the belt merged into wind and waves.

"I heard that the Houtianlou Assassin also accepts requests from outside the civil building...I also want to ask you." Yu Yiwei wiped away tears fiercely, gritted his teeth and looked at him, "I want you...you must come to me alive! Don't die tonight, don't give up on yourself, I still need a drinking friend, if you don't come to drink with me, I will be ridiculed, saying that Xu Fan is a soft bone without friends!"

"So I want to beg you...don't die tonight."

The end of the conversation gradually became weaker, Yu Yi wept without a word, and lowered his head as if he was about to kneel down and beg.

Shui Jiujiu silently listened to his request, and suddenly stretched out his hand tremblingly.The assassin said hoarsely: "Give me a reward."

These words do not seem to come from a greedy heart.Yu Yi looked at Shui Shijiu suspiciously, his eyes were tired but clear.

The assassin said: "Only when you are paid can you ask for a request. Once the Houtianlou Assassin is ordered, he will definitely do his best. But we have known each other for so long, so we can give less. In this way, I will never go to the hospital until I complete the request." Die until your wish is granted."

Yu Yiwei touched his body all over.The pocket was confiscated, and the monthly money in the sleeve pocket was used to distribute to bribe the assassin who guarded him. At this time, he was a pauper and penniless.

He touched his neck and froze for a moment.There was a red thread hanging around his neck, and something was worn on the thread. He fished it out and saw that it was a copper coin with body temperature.

It was the copper coin that Yu Zhixu gave him to ward off evil spirits, and it was always with him.One side has the words Tongbao, but the other side is tattooed with quail patterns.

While fooling around in Houtianlou, Yu Yiwei heard some Qian Zhanshu's tricks from the assassins in western Sichuan, and probably knew that this thing was safe.Wearing it can dispel evil and avoid disasters, and seek health.But now he is no longer concerned about his own safety, he cares more about the life and death of others than himself.

Yu Yi didn't take down the copper coin, but solemnly handed it to Shui Shijiu.The slender red thread fluttered in the wind and rain, slipped through the pores of the copper coins, and suddenly floated into the air.

"Give me...come back alive."

Thousands of words were stuck in his throat, and in the end, Yu Yiwei could only utter these words in a trembling voice.

Shui Nineteen held the copper coin, took a deep look at him, and tried his best to prop himself up from the tree trunk.The assassin turned to face the dense forest behind, and the evil ghosts in Houtianlou rushed forward like a city wall, and the sound of drawing swords was uniform, like thunder and thunderbolts.This is not an opponent that can be dealt with alone, let alone a person with a seriously injured body.

"Please, I'll take it."

Shui Nineteen gave him a sideways smile for the last time, his smile was hazy in the rain and mist, "See you tomorrow, Xu Fan."