Gu Xingzhai never dreamed of it.

In the middle of the night, when the arrow was on the string and the atmosphere was just right, there was a sudden shout mixed with tension, excitement and righteousness outside the door——

"Brother, it's water!!!"

But when Gu Xingzhai and other sleeping guests put on their coats and hurried out, looking around blankly, they only saw a charred mark not much bigger than a cigarette butt on the floor of the corridor.

The man saw the sparks being stepped on, and there was only a long thin wisp of green smoke left, and he almost turned his nose in anger: "Qi Xiaoliu! You don't sleep most of the night , What are you howling? This is also called running water?"

"I, I'm not taking precautions." Xiao Liu scratched his head, chuckled, and kept looking into the room behind him with a pair of tricks.

Looking at him like this, what else does Gu Xingzhai not understand?

He was speechless to Yue, and after a while, he let out a long sigh, wiped his face vigorously, then picked up Xiao Liu's collar with one hand, and threw the stinky brat back into his room.

"Brother, you can't bully Mr. Lin anymore!" Qi Xiaoliu shouted panickedly behind him.

Gu Xingzhai paused, turned back and asked unbearably: "You are also fourteen this year, and you are not at the age where you don't know anything. Didn't Master take you to a kiln to catch demons back then? You have no choice but to shoot. You really don't know anything. have no idea?"

"What's the matter with the brothel and the arrow?" Xiao Liu was puzzled, but seeing the expression on Gu Xingzhai's face, he finally realized, "Oh, brother, so you were just now..." He coughed, his face flushed, It was only then that he realized what stupid thing he had done, but he still asked in a low voice with Gu Xingzhai's eyes about to kill someone, "Then, senior brother, did you shoot your arrow or not?"

Gu Xingzhai took a deep breath.

After a while, Qi Xiaoliu's ghost crying and howling wolves came from the room.

After beating up the disobedient brat, Gu Xingzhai clapped his hands and returned to the room with a cold face.

There was a muffled laugh from the big bed, Lin Xiaodong poked his head out from under the quilt, looked at the man's face that was almost darkened, and said with crooked eyebrows, "You won't really do it, will you?"

"He deserves a beating." Gu Xingzhai said firmly.

However, his gaze involuntarily fell on the young man's still rosy face. Because of the telangiectasia caused by strenuous exercise, the young man looked like a ripe and juicy fruit, covered in blood. The soft heat was leaking from top to bottom, and the dark kiss/scars left by him when he was in love/move just now could be vaguely seen on the white neck... Gu Xingzhai's breathing gradually became quicker, he sat on the side of the bed, and ignored Lin Xiaodong's complaints. The man was pulled out of the warm blanket and hugged tightly in his arms.

"what happened?"

Sensing that the man's emotions were wrong, Lin Xiaodong also stopped struggling.He was quiet for a while, and asked softly.

"It's nothing," Gu Xingzhai replied in a deep, somewhat depressed voice, "Don't move, just let me hug you for a while."

Lin Xiaodong sighed.

After all, the Gu Xingzhai of this world is just a 25-year-old young man.

First, he experienced three years of turmoil, and then he went home to attend the funeral, and now the burden of revitalizing the sect fell on him... No wonder he often couldn't sleep in the middle of the night recently, and secretly hugged himself in his arms.

"Don't worry," he said, "I'll always be here with you."

"……real?"

"Really," Lin Xiaodong paused, and added, "Anyway, it's impossible for me to be the one who missed the appointment first."

The system silently listened to their conversation in the void, and suddenly understood why Lin Xiaodong said that.Because in his thinking, leaving this world is tantamount to death, and death is a kind of force majeure, so it is not considered a missed appointment.

It's just that not everyone in this world thinks the same as him, perhaps in Gu Xingzhai's heart, this promise means forever.

The man stepped back a little, and suddenly looked into Lin Xiaodong's eyes firmly, and said, "We'll have a wedding when the younger brother and the others are here."

"wedding?"

Hearing this, Lin Xiaodong was really taken aback.

Although Gu Xi had proposed to him in the first world, it was a proposal after all, and it was different from a real wedding.For some reason, when Lin Xiaodong thought of this word, he felt a little inexplicably repulsive: "What kind of wedding are two men having...will be laughed at by others."

"We only invite our own people. As for the opinions of others, we don't care about them." But the more Gu Xingzhai talked, the more he felt that his idea was a good one. He held Lin Xiaodong's hand tightly, and asked with some expectation and urgency , "Do you have any relatives or friends? It doesn't matter if it's a monster, or we can hold one in each of the two places..."

"I don't have any relatives or friends, so you're overthinking it." Lin Xiaodong broke free from his embrace, turned his head to avoid the man's sight, "I just don't want to get married. Isn't that good? There are no restrictions yet."

Seeing him like this, Gu Xingzhai's fiery heart gradually cooled down.

"Don't you want to," he murmured, lowering his eyes, "that's fine."

Seeing the inexplicably pitiful look of the man, Lin Xiaodong sighed, and softened his tone a bit: "No, it's just that now is not the time. Look, my arrest warrant is still hanging on the city wall. Although you You are not wanted by the government, but they must have been eyeing you."

"Then let's get married when the limelight passes!" Gu Xingzhai's eyes lit up, and he said immediately.

Lin Xiaodong: "..."

He closed his mouth, thinking to himself, forget it, let him go.

Anyway, by that time, he should have left this world long ago.

"I don't understand," the system said, "Why are you so resistant to such a ceremony without any contractual effect? ​​Obviously when Gu Xi proposed to you, you agreed very readily."

"Marriage proposal is different from marriage." Lin Xiaodong said indifferently.

But in fact, he was also a little surprised. Obviously, the thinking system in his head should know, but it asked this question as if it didn't notice.

It seems that the system still has limitations in detecting the thoughts of the host, he thought.

Otherwise, the system should have understood why he was so repulsive about getting married.

Before time travel, Lin Xiaodong often had a dream intermittently. In the dream, he and a man whose face could not be seen were not only married, but even married, and adopted a puppy named Lin Xiaogou together. The pet—that’s right, Erha, the same breed as Lin Puppy in the first world.

Logically speaking, for Lin Xiaodong who already knew that he liked men, this should be a sweet dream.

But the dreams are always intermittent, and under these warm appearances, the only thing he can feel is boundless despair.This feeling of suffocation like drowning even made Lin Xiaodong suspect that he had some kind of psychological problem, but before he could figure out the truth, the system came and took him to the first world .

After meeting Gu Xi, Lin Xiaodong never had that dream again.

"In short," he pulled his thoughts away from the memory, and said to the system in an affirmative tone, "I probably won't marry anyone in this life. Even if he has eight-pack abs...emmm, Neither."

The system is silent.

"Then it seems that your determination is indeed very strong." It said sincerely.

After all, the only thing that can make Lin Xiaodong temporarily give up the temptation of the eight-pack abs is the yellow sponge cube with dozens of holes.

The next evening.

"Brother Gu!" "Brother!"

Hearing the voice from the door of the inn, Gu Xingzhai, who was talking to Lin Xiaodong in the lobby, was taken aback for a moment. Hearing the sound, he saw four juniors standing neatly at the door, looking at him excitedly.

"You guys..." Gu Xingzhai blinked, suppressed the excitement in his heart, walked over to them and gave them a big hug, "It's fine!"

"Brother, we all miss you," an older boy with freckles sniffed, looking at Gu Xingzhai with red eyes. Persuading me to wait until you come back to discuss, I will kill that dog now%¥#..."

"What are you talking about!" Gu Xingzhai covered his mouth and frowned, "At the foot of the imperial city, you need to grow your brains."

The freckled boy replied reluctantly: "Understood, brother."

"By the way, where is Xiao Liu?" the second child standing next to him asked.He is the oldest person here besides Gu Xingzhai. He looks to be in his early twenties. He wears a plain linen gown.

"This brat left a note without saying a word and ran out the door. We have been looking for him for almost half a month, and we haven't even slept well!" The fourth child said angrily, and the fifth child immediately nodded, "That's right, This time, he must be dealt with properly!"

They are a pair of twins, almost identical in appearance, no one can tell them apart except Gu Xingzhai, so they are also very convinced of Gu Xingzhai, even more respectful than their master.

"Upstairs, I guess I didn't dare to come down when I heard your voice." Gu Xingzhai said with pursed lips.

There are so many people here, it's hard to talk about things.They went back to the room on the second floor together, but they were surprised to find that besides their senior brother, there was also a handsome young man with phoenix eyes who also walked in.

The second child frowned tightly, looked at Lin Xiaodong, then at Gu Xingzhai who looked calm, and was the first to ask: "Brother, is he...?"

Gu Xingzhai took the young man's hand, and said to the four juniors with different looks in front of him, "This is the person I've identified in my life, Lin Xiaodong."

The quick-witted third child was the first to realize: "Is he the succubus that was offered a reward of fifty gold by the government?"

"Yes." Gu Xingzhai nodded.

Several people looked at each other.

Although I am very happy that the senior brother can find the other half, but their profession has a very big prejudice against Yaomei. It is impossible to say that there is no lump in their hearts.

But they are all adults after all, unlike the sixth child who can speak his mind outright, so in the end the second child spoke as a representative: "Congratulations. But brother, are you sure he can be trusted?"

Gu Xingzhai: "I can guarantee it with my life."

The second son sighed: "Okay, since that's the case, we as juniors won't say anything, you just have to know what's in your mind, senior brother."

The third child pursed his lips tightly and did not speak.

He just glanced at Lin Xiaodong with indifferent eyes, but he got a gentle smile from the young man, and couldn't help being slightly startled.

In fact, from the moment he entered the inn, he immediately spotted Lin Xiaodong sitting in the lobby.Without him, the young man's appearance is too eye-catching, maybe he doesn't know it himself, but whether upstairs or downstairs, everyone is watching him intentionally or unconsciously.The third child originally thought that he was a succubus who was caught and imprisoned by Gu Xingzhai, but he didn't expect that they had such a relationship.

"But Senior Brother, can humans and demons be together?" The fourth child couldn't help asking.

"Why not?" Lin Xiaodong asked without waiting for Gu Xingzhai to answer.This stopped the fourth child from asking. He was dumb for a moment, and then he became angry from embarrassment: "I didn't ask you! Besides, I'm the one who asked the question, okay?"

"Fourth!"

The second child and the fifth child looked at him disapprovingly at the same time, but Lin Xiaodong was not angry at his offense, just smiled, and said to Gu Xingzhai: "I'll go to Xiao Liu's room to stay for a while, and you two can chat slowly. .”

Looking at his leaving back, Gu Xingzhai's eyes darkened slightly.

Although he didn't say anything, the fourth child felt a little uneasy in his heart.He bit the bullet and did not admit his mistake, but when the second brother and the others were discussing with Gu Xingzhai, the young man held the teacup in his hand tightly and did not say a word the whole time.

After dinner at night, he dawdly "passed" by Lin Xiaodong, said something quickly with a whimper, and then ran away quickly.Lin Xiaodong blinked his eyes, standing on the spot thoughtfully, Gu Xingzhai thought that the fourth child was speaking rudely to him again, so he came over with frowning eyes and asked, "What did this brat tell you again?"

"It's nothing." Lin Xiaodong came back to his senses and smiled, "He said that although he hates monsters, for your sake, if there is any danger, he will risk his life to protect me."

"...This brat."

This time, Gu Xingzhai's voice carried a bit of helplessness and pride.Lin Xiaodong could tell just by looking at him, why did he take care of these boys as his juniors?Obviously he became an apprentice!

"Everyone in your group knows kung fu. If you stay in the inn for a long time, you will inevitably be targeted by someone with a heart," he advised, "If you have nothing else to do, you should leave Beijing as soon as possible."

Gu Xingzhai nodded heavily.

Taking advantage of this period of time, he has already traveled around half of the capital, not only asking clearly about the ins and outs of his master's trip to the forbidden area, but also taking back all the relics he left with his friends.Counting the days, it is time to leave this place.

"I asked the blacksmith before, and the sword for Xiao Liu is almost ready, and I think I can get it tomorrow morning." He said, "We will get married when we go back to the suburbs of Beijing to finish the master's grave."

Seeing the man so obsessed with it, Lin Xiaodong was powerless to refuse.

He also couldn't understand why Gu Xingzhai was so obsessed with getting married?

"It's up to you." In the end, that was all he could say.

However, on the night before leaving, they saw two familiar faces near the inn—the gray-robed Taoist priest and his disciple who had finally put on new clothes.

"Hey, don't go!" Seeing that Gu Xingzhai was pulling Lin Xiaodong away from them, the gray-robed Taoist immediately ran over, yelling, "I'm not a scourge, nor an officer and soldier who came to arrest you, why are you running? "

Because meeting you must be a bad thing, Lin Xiaodong secretly thought.

It was obvious that Gu Xingzhai agreed with him, but out of respect for his senior, he stopped and asked politely, "I don't know what you can do, senior?"

"It's nothing expensive to do," the gray-robed Taoist rubbed his nose embarrassingly, "Actually, I just want to apologize to you."

"……Oh?"

"Hey, isn't it because my apprentice and I were quick-mouthed when we were outside, and the news leaked out, and you couldn't stay in Qingxie Town anymore." The gray-robed Taoist priest said, "I don't like to owe favors to others. , let alone take the initiative to harm others, this is the principle of my life. But it is also true that we indirectly hurt you because of our master and apprentice, so I want to say sorry to you."

Gu Xingzhai frowned and said, "Then how did you find us?"

He knew that there was a Taoist magic called tracing a thousand miles, so before leaving, he deliberately burned down the Gu family's mansion, just to prevent anyone from taking Lin Xiaodong's belongings to locate where they were.But Qingxie Town is thousands of miles away from the capital, if the gray-robed Taoist priests didn't use spells, how did they know they were here?

"It's a coincidence that when our master and apprentice were resting in the wilderness, we suddenly smelled a faint fragrance. We followed the smell and found a few drops of dried blood." The gray-robed Taoist talked eloquently, "At that time, I immediately realized that this thing should be Meixiang. I tried to use the tracking technique to investigate, and found that the place it was pointing to was in the capital, so I followed blindly, and I found it here. you."

Lin Xiaodong slightly opened his eyes wide, and exchanged a glance with Gu Xingzhai, who had a serious expression on his face: "Could it be that arrow that Xiao Liu shot..."

Gu Xingzhai nodded: "I'm afraid it is."

He was a little annoyed, at that time he was only worried about Lin Xiaodong's injury, but forgot to deal with the blood.

"Don't worry, I've already burned that tree just in case." The gray-robed Taoist said proudly, "But I don't know if anyone found blood before that."

"In any case, thank you, senior." Gu Xingzhai cupped his hands at him, and the gray-robed Taoist waved his hands again and again, "Whether you deserve it or not, don't thank me, let's just treat it as if we're even!"

After seeing off the pair of master and apprentice, Lin Xiaodong said: "It seems that our whereabouts have been discovered."

Gu Xingzhai didn't say anything, but he also thought so.

Otherwise, the world is so big, it is impossible for them to leave Qingxie Town without incident along the way, but when they arrived in the capital, they were offered a reward - the person who offered the reward probably didn't know their exact location, but they definitely knew they were coming Near the capital.

"Let's leave the city tomorrow." Gu Xingzhai said decisively.

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