The Road to Peach Blossoms

In the 23rd year of Tianbao, in late autumn, General Yunhui led his troops to break through the Forbidden City. Thousands of troops drove in. The people in the capital, supporting the old and the young, princes and generals, all bowed their heads. Emperor Xuanwu also died under the sword of the general. Xuanwu The country has been broken since then.

The world is unified, and it belongs to the white tiger. It is called the Ming Dynasty in history, and the year name is changed to Tianqi.

Because the regent Ximenyan was the sun, General Yunhui's ancient moon was the moon, and when the sun and the moon were together, it was the Great Ming Dynasty.

Back when the city was broken, the people supported the old and the young, bowed down on the road, and kowtowed to the prime minister, all of them looked at each other with tears streaming down their faces. I couldn't help feeling sad when I saw this scene, so I got off my horse and took a walk; My daughter, she led me down the secret passage, which leads to the palace. Beichen Jinfang wanted to have a skin-to-skin kiss with me. All are executed.

"You're late." I said to my apprentice, he got off the horse and knelt straight in front of me. When he raised his head, his eyes were dark and hard, only the right eye, which had exhausted all the light, did not have a slight brilliance flow .Is this blind?

"Why did you damage your eyes?"

He lowered his brows and narrowed his eyes, avoiding my gaze: "Shen Ke's old injury has flared up, but it's fine."

At that time, I didn't want to continue to ask, but now the battle is over and the dust has settled. I thought of his dim right eye, so I asked the adjutant to summon him.

When he didn't move, he came to see me with a straight military uniform. I didn't speak, and he was also taciturn and not good at speaking.I sat in front of the case and stared at his face, feeling a little startled. From the beginning to the end, I didn't think about his name, didn't ask his origin, and never paid attention to his appearance. I bent over and asked me, "Master, do you have any orders?"

Although I never taught him a single move, I only gave pointers to learn from each other.

When I came back to my senses, I found that he turned his head slightly and his cheeks were slightly flushed.

I put an end to this embarrassment, and said: "Teacher, when I rescued you in Suzaku Kingdom, because you haven't eaten a grain of rice or touched a drop of water for a long time, you have lost your mind and know nothing about human affairs..."

I paused, and he continued: "Master, I am very grateful to you for that."

"At that time you said you had no memory at all, but now I just want to ask—have you recovered your memory now?"

He said softly: "It's recovered, Master."

"Even if you don't come to ask me, I will still come to tell you." He pressed his hands on the desk and leaned forward, "The war is over, and I am about to say goodbye to you....My name is Gu Qi."

He was almost talking against the side of my neck, and my earlobe was sprayed with hot air, which made me touch it lightly, "Before we leave, give me a kiss, okay?"

I looked up at him suddenly, stood up slowly, and looked directly at his face.

Only then did I realize that the end of his eyes had turned bright red. I gently wiped the moisture from the corners of his eyes with my fingertips, traced his eyebrows and eyes carefully, and said lightly: "Gu Qi, you are my disciple. Master and apprentice, before parting, I will teach you another truth."

"if……"

"I can fall in love with a gentle and beautiful woman..."

"Don't ever fall in love with a man of the same sex as you..."

"...how are you?"

In the end, my voice still couldn't help trembling.

"...I don't understand." His eyelids drooped, and he held my right hand to trace his eyebrows and eyes with both hands, "Why is it always Chu Heqing who can, but I can't?"

"He?" I tried my best to calm down, "He is my master. He has protected me for eight years, taught me, accompanied me, and helped me. He is kind to me. If he likes me, how can I not repay the kindness?"

"Master——" he gently kissed my palm, "Don't use this method because of responsibility, don't want to repay kindness, it's unfair to us."

"Now, I don't ask for anything else, I just ask you for a kiss, and I will leave. I will never see you again in this life. Maybe this last little request of mine can be satisfied?"

"Okay," the corners of my lips curled slightly, "leave and leave, never see each other again, okay, okay, okay."

"You close your eyes—"

He closed his eyes in response, only the slight trembling of his eyelashes revealed the tension in his heart.

I went around the desk, stood flat in front of him, put my hands on the back of his head, motioning him to lower his head slightly, I stood on tiptoe, and kissed his trembling eyelids like a dragonfly.

He opened his eyes suddenly, clasped my waist backwards with one hand, and landed on the back of my head with the other, his handsome face enlarged, blocking my slightly opened and closed lips due to surprise, tossing and turning.

Hearing his slightly aggravated shortness of breath, knowing the silent tears flowing from the corners of his eyes, and feeling his tiny body trembling constantly, I quietly waited for him for half a cup of tea.

Then, I forcefully pushed him away, and with an indifferent face, I rubbed my red lips with the knuckles of the back of my hand, and asked him, "Is that enough?"

He didn't speak.

I turned around and left, and when I passed him, I heard him say, "It's not enough."

I paused, and finally asked: "What's wrong with your eyes, can you tell me?"

"Sorry." He replied apologetically.

Ten days later, set off for Beijing.

Before leaving, Yuan Hai found me at night and reported: "While we were patrolling, we found..."

My eyelids twitched.

"...your apprentice's body." He wondered, "Why did the war end, but he lost his life in a good way? The general just sent the body for examination, and hurriedly came to inform you before the results came out," he said. Watching my expression carefully, unfortunately I am wearing a mask, he can't see anything, "Aren't you going to see him?"

I shook the dangling hilt, it was a new sword: "Don't go."

Five days later, the results of the inspection came out, and it was failure within five years—no suicide, no homicide, no poisoning/killing, just a sudden and sharp physical failure, and he died while walking on the road.

I was speechless for a long time.

The way back to Beijing was very slow and boring. The White Tiger Army dragged it all the way for a long time. I was more and more eager to retrieve my memory, so I summoned Princess Jinghua and said to her: "The journey is long, and at this speed, don't talk about it." It will take three to two months, I can't wait, take a fast horse and take a step ahead, you can look after the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops for me, okay?"

Jinghua said: "You go, with me here, there will be no trouble."

I went with confidence.

In January, there is severe winter and heavy snow.White Tiger Country, Zichen City.

It is another year of spring flowers falling, and another year of winter snow drifting.

I exhaled the condensed hot air, stretched out my palm upwards, and the snowflakes slowly fell on the palm and fingertips, bringing a faint icy sting, and soon melted and turned into a pool of small water droplets.

A traveler once lamented that the flowers are similar every year, but people are different every year; time has changed, I have changed, Regent, how about you?

Holding the token of General Yunhui, he arrived at the Jinluan Hall unimpeded on the road.

The Prince Regent is here to receive him.

It is not allowed to bring weapons into the hall of Jinluan. Although there are no guards with knives guarding it, I also left the sword outside the hall. It is a new one and has not been used yet.

The regent sits on the throne belonging to the emperor, noble and indifferent, silent and majestic.

I stood under the red long steps of the nine-story panlongfeifengphoenix, bowed, and when I raised my eyes again, I stated in a steady voice: "Ten years ago, you promised me, but you didn't fulfill it; two years ago , I asked Xun Wang to convey the agreement between us on my behalf, and some soldiers reported to me that you should make this agreement-I will present you the Kingdom of Three Tripods, and you will find the real body of Bai Luzhu for me. Now, It’s time to fulfill it.”

"However, before that, I want to ask you a few questions—"

The regent put his hands on his eyelashes, and said calmly: "If you ask the person who harmed you back then, I have already dealt with everything on your behalf. The one who puts the oil in the pan, the one who should be peeled, the one who should be lingchi, and the one who should be deboned." Eviscerated bones, and those who were thrown into the Five Poison Cave and died through the nine orifices..."

"Nice job," I praised him, "one less thing I need to worry about."

I praised him, he seemed to be in a good mood, and there was brilliance flowing in the dark golden eyes.

I asked, "Where's the little emperor?"

I still remember that when the little emperor bid farewell to me in tears, he made a solemn promise to me: "Just wait for me to rule the white tiger, and I will invite you to come back with red makeup ten miles away, and we will marry you to be my wife." How is the queen?"

I nodded my head at the time and said yes, because he saved my life.

The grace of saving lives should be promised to each other.

The regent's left knuckles tapped on the armrest of the seat, echoing in the majestic and spacious hall, and his voice was low and low: "Please come up, the White Tiger Emperor."

The right hand is still over the eye.

A guard pushed someone up, I turned my eyes to look, after so many years, the little emperor ended up like this?

He leaned back to the left on the exquisitely crafted wheelchair, all his limbs were twisted at strange angles, his eyes were open, but they were dark and empty, cloudy and dim, cold and empty, his face was expressionless, although his eyes were open and looked forward, But I don't know what he is looking at, like a dull, empty puppet.

I turned my gaze and asked the regent with my eyes.

The regent's voice was indifferent: "Back then, when I woke up, the first thing I did was to change a group of subordinates, and those who were not available were all dealt with; in addition, Ximen Ling raised troops to encircle me, and he was disobedient, so I taught him how to deal with it." Be an obedient person... I poisoned his voice, blinded his eyes, poked his ears, and broke his tendons and tendons... Look at this, isn't he obedient? It's been like this for a long time. good?"

When he spoke, the little emperor really did not respond at all, it seemed that he was really deaf.

I sneered: "Are you demonstrating against me?"

"No," the regent immediately denied it, and he explained seriously, "If it wasn't for him, who made me unconscious, how could it make you fall into danger and wander around?"

I declined to comment and asked, "What about Xiaoyao Wang?"

The regent replied to me: "Ximenhao reacted quickly. On the day Ximenling was defeated, he fled overnight with all the elite soldiers in his palace. I set up a net in the White Tiger Kingdom, but he has already left the country..."

I was surprised: "...so you let him escape?"

Ridiculous, when the regent still misses?

"Before, I had contacted Bei Chenjin. He bought most of my explosives. He didn't have to pay a penny. The only reward he paid was... If Ximen Hao fled to his jurisdiction, he must be arrested for me. ..."

I have nothing to say.

"Bei Chenjin was as promised, but Ximenhao was arrested within one month. However, what I saw was his corpse. He was unwilling to be humiliated, and his subordinates ignored him. He committed suicide on the road... Sorry," the regent couldn't help but sip. lips, slightly apologetic, "That's why I...showed his head to the public and hung it at the city gate for three days, in order to..."

Shock the people.

"...that's really good," I clapped my hands in praise, lifted my feet and slowly climbed up the nine floors, the carved dragons and phoenixes stepped on the soles of my boots seemed to break through the confinement, flamboyant and dancing, "I've finished my words, now it's my turn You... fulfilled your promise that day."

"...Okay." The regent slowly lifted his right hand that was pressing on his eye. This short time was enough for me to see the condition of his right eye——

Silent and gloomy, with all the light taken away, like a deserted people that the gods don't bother to care about.

It's the same as Gu Qi's.

The next moment, his index finger plunged deeply into the socket of his right eye, digging out the bright eyeball, a large amount of thick and colorful blood gushed out, gurgling down the bottom of the eye socket.

He stretched out his palms forward, held his eyeballs flat, and placed them in front of me, his voice was still low and calm:

"The real body of Bai Luzhu you want."

——My pupils shrank suddenly.

The author has something to say:

Regent: Here you are...

Xiao Gong: ⊙﹏⊙∥, the bloody eyeballs are so eager... Maybe they want to scare the king to death, so as to usurp the throne? ! Σ(°△°|||)︴

Regent: (affectionate face) Whatever you want, whatever I have...

Xiao Gong: (pretending to be calm) mmp, there are always people who want to harm me!