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Uptown is cold at night and brightly lit.

Jiang Baizhou was walking alone on the street, not knowing where to go.He was a little homesick again, and this emotion was filled with sadness. He looked at the strange road, listened to the strange noise, and walked along the street without knowing where he was, and his heart felt sour.

It's an unprecedented feeling, and it should probably be called loneliness.

Alone in a foreign land as a stranger.Did Gongsun Shu feel this way in Endless Sea back then?

It turned out to be the case.

Jiang Baizhou didn't know what he was thinking, and returned to Gongsun Mansion.

He came to Tinghai Pavilion, and before he had time to go in under the cover of night, he almost bumped into a group of servants holding torches. He hid behind a tree and saw people everywhere: maidservants walking in a hurry, servants with fierce spirits, unexpectedly There are also soldiers in military uniforms, each holding a weapon that looks like a crossbow but is not a crossbow, looking very fierce.

Jiang Baizhou waited and watched for a while, and suddenly heard a few servants nearby gossip:

"What happened all of a sudden? There's such a big fight."

"I don't know. The master ordered to search the whole house. It seems that some outsiders broke in and wanted to arrest him."

"Maybe he's gone."

"Where can I go? The master just asked the butler to block the ladder and Tongtian Road, and search the whole city!"

"Ah, this man has a long history."

"Yeah, our family can't decide the closure of the city. We have to use the Sifang Order. The master hasn't done anything for a few years. I don't know who told him to go to war..."

……

catch him?Jiang Baizhou understood.

But what to catch him for?The letter has explained clearly enough that there is no need to meet in person.

He regarded the search of the whole house as nothing, and left without touching himself.

There are some troubles now. I'm afraid it's not easy to go back to the lower city tonight after the city is closed. When will it be closed?What happened to Longying?

Jiang Baizhou followed the direction Long Ying had described for him in his memory, and headed in the direction of Feiguang Hall alone.

Sure enough, the Gongsun clan started to search the whole city. There were soldiers all over the streets, and the leader held up a flag with the word "Gongsun" written on it, which was quite terrifying.

But Jiang Baizhou was curious, how to check this?Gongsun Bo has never seen him again.

His questions were quickly answered.

I saw the search soldiers knocking on the door and breaking in, checking everyone's ID plate-everyone had a name plate, and the upper city was really strict.

He thought to himself, fortunately he didn't say that he was Gongsun Shu's biological son, otherwise the Gongsun family would not let him go.He didn't want to get involved in the entanglement of his father's family at all.

After wandering around the city several times, Jiang Baizhou found Feiguang Hall.

Before approaching, you can see a tall building standing in the white light from a distance, with a plaque hanging high, and the three characters "Feiguang Temple" are particularly eye-catching.There are pavilions and pavilions at the foot of the tall building, and the main building is surrounded by stars like the moon.

The fence is higher than that of the Gongsun family. Standing outside, you can’t see the scene inside the wall. The gate is heavily guarded, and the atmosphere is completely different from the Gongsun family. One is a wealthy family, and the other is like a military center.

But no matter how high the wall was, Jiang Baizhou leaped up it without breaking a sweat.

He stood up lightly, and as soon as he stepped on the wall with his feet, there was a sound of breaking through the air in front of him. With a "whoosh", he instinctively turned sideways to avoid it, and an arrow shot at his feet.

"Trick? Powerful." Jiang Baizhou praised lightly, and slid down from the wall like a wandering soul. He stepped on something, and the soil under his feet suddenly sank. Before he had time to think about Jiang Baizhou floating away from the ground, the trap expected him to react like this. Spikes protruded from the ground, and there was no place for him to set foot a second time. There was only a four-cornered pavilion on the left standing safely, and he could enter by turning around and jumping.

But too obvious "safety" can't be safe, so Jiang Baizhou tore off a corner of his clothes and threw it into the Sijiao Pavilion with force.The broken pavilion really did not disappoint him, and immediately cast a net covering the sky, covering the corner of his clothes that he deliberately threw.

Jiang Baizhou had nowhere to hide, so he had to stand on the top of the spikes, his body as light as a feather, and he did not lose his strength.

"Meow—" A cat meowed not far away.

Jiang Baizhou followed the sound and saw a black cat rushing towards him. If he avoided it, the cat would be stabbed to death immediately.I had no choice but to reach out to catch it, but unexpectedly, the cat was hard in my arms, its limbs had no cat hair, and its tentacles were cold and hard—it was iron!

Jiang Baizhou was so surprised that he didn't have time to react, the black cat's iron claws had already reached his chest.

The clothes were torn, and the skin was scratched with bloodstains by the sharp claws. The cat was half-real, and it was bloodthirsty. When it smelled blood, it immediately stuck out its tongue to lick it. Jiang Baizhou was afraid that it would be poisonous, so he subconsciously let go of the cat, and the cat fell on the ground. The sharp thorns on the ground were pierced and rotten.

It was really alive, with mechanical joints and bright red intestines popping out at the same time, horrible and pathetic.Jiang Baizhou couldn't bear to look more, and his distaste for Feiguang Temple increased a bit—can they transform any living thing?People, pigeons, cats, what else?

With such a cruel act, there is no respect for the way of heaven, and Ji Shixiong is still trying to seek immortality?It's ridiculous.

Jiang Baizhou's complexion turned cold, and he walked sideways in Feiguang Temple's so-called unparalleled strict mechanism.

He remained "invisible", leaving only a water mark wherever he passed.

The tall building I saw just now was in front, and the lights here were brighter than other places. It was the place where Ji Shixiong and his subordinates discussed matters.

But the gate was closed, and the gate was still heavily guarded. Jiang Baizhou couldn't get in, he was too lazy to be a "gentleman under the window", and he didn't know where to go when he left, so he had to wait outside the gate for Longying.

He was in a bad mood and bored. For the first time, he desperately hoped that Long Ying would come out soon.

This kind of expectation is not pure - he deliberately uses Long Ying to squeeze away the space that Gongsun's family occupies in his mind, those things make him unhappy, in comparison, he might as well think of Long Ying.

Yet, even if not pure, it was special to him.He found that when he has troubles, the people and things that make him happy gradually become clear and lovely.

This is a bond he doesn't want, but at this moment, they are the only ones that can save him from a bad mood.

Jiang Baizhou suddenly remembered a small incident six years ago.

It was snowing that day, and he and Long Ying stayed in the ruined temple together.That small temple is too dilapidated, the incense has been cut off long ago, and almost no one will come to it.But that day, for some reason, a passer-by came, she was a woman, about 40 to [-] years old, it was difficult to judge.

Seeing her walk into the temple, Jiang Baizhou and Long Ying hid behind the statue together - I don't know why they hid, maybe they didn't want to greet strangers.

The woman took shelter from the wind and snow in the temple for a while, staring at the statue in a daze.Then she suddenly knelt down and prayed indiscriminately. At first she just asked for peace, but later she even complained to the idol, telling how she had suffered a lot, and how many sacrifices she had made for her husband and children. As a matter of course, even his son beat and kicked her when he grew up, thinking that she was incompetent, so that he had no money and could not marry a wife.

At that time, the dumb Longying said two words: "Poor."

Jiang Baizhou also felt sorry for her, so he tore off a jade pendant and threw it out, pretending to be a god statue, "Take it and sell it for money."

The woman was panicked and pleasantly surprised, thanked the statue a thousand times, and left gratefully.

Two more words popped out of Longying's mouth: "It's useless."

Jiang Baizhou was puzzled: "Why is it useless? If you marry her son a wife, won't she be beaten?"

Long Ying shook her head, and couldn't explain why, but she had seen too many similar things, and it was useless.

"I'll still get beaten." Long Ying said, "Next time."

"What next time?"

Jiang Baizhou didn't understand, but Longying stopped talking.

In fact, Longying was not dumb or stuttered, she was just shy in front of Jiang Baizhou, and embarrassed to talk to him.He was also afraid that he would reveal his ignorance by saying the wrong thing and make Jiang Baizhou laugh, so he had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.

"Next time" didn't take long to arrive.

The woman came to the statue of the ruined temple again, knelt down and cried as soon as she entered.It turned out that after she took the money back, her husband and son were overjoyed and asked her where she got the money from, and she said they picked it up.They didn't believe it, and when they pressed her repeatedly, she confessed the truth. They confirmed that it was not stolen goods, and they immediately squandered it. They spent everything in the gambling shop in a few days, and they owed the debt.Then force her to worship the temple and continue asking the gods for money.

She said she had to come, and if she couldn't get it, she would be beaten.

But this time Jiang Baizhou and Long Ying didn't say a word, and the statue didn't "appear" again.

Women leave disappointed.Long Ying said: "There are many people like her."

Seeing Jiang Baizhou staring at him, he blushed and lowered his head, murmured the second half of the sentence: "...can't help."

At that time, Jiang Baizhou didn't think too much about it.The world is not benevolent, all things are regarded as dogs, creatures follow the trend, the five elements are natural, there are many struggling people in the world, but he is just a passerby.

Long Ying didn't think too much about it. He didn't know that he was about to meet Tang Chunkai and join the wild fire. From then on, he vowed to fight for justice, save the suffering people, and restore peace to the world.

Tang Chunkai's ambition was too grand, one night, after being gentle, Longying said to Jiang Baizhou: "That is my teacher's ambition, not mine."

He said: "I don't know what Qingping Mountains and Rivers are like, and I am not interested. I am angry at the injustice in the world, but I am not angry enough to be willing to run for it all my life. Everything I do for the wildfire is essentially for me. Teacher. My ambition is to inherit his will, and I don't want his life's hard work to go to waste. That's too cruel."

Jiang Baizhou listened carefully.

"He said that the upper and lower urban areas should be connected, and if the upper and lower urban areas cannot be connected, the upper urban area will be demolished, and then legislation will be made, and schools will be built... There are many things to do. He said that everything will get better."

"But I always feel that I can't wait for that day." Long Ying leaned on Jiang Baizhou's shoulder, "I'm going alone, I don't know how far I can go, if you can stay with me, brother."

"..."

At that time, Jiang Baizhou couldn't empathize with Long Ying's sadness.

Now he suddenly understood that that kind of emotion was not called sadness, but loneliness.

The word "loneliness" has a concrete interpretation in his heart. It is "alone in a foreign land as a stranger". In the noise, and in the dark night where there is nowhere to stay.

Just as he was thinking, the front door suddenly opened.

The guards on both sides of the door bowed their heads and saluted, and Long Ying came out slowly.