birth

One big and one small, just leaning on each other and sitting on the ground, slowly fell asleep in the hall where the smell of needles could be heard.

Xu Jia hadn't fallen asleep for a long time, and every time night fell, when he lay on that bed, the thoughts that had been suppressed during the day would grow wildly and redoubled like weeds, wrapping him airtightly, making him unable to breathe. I can nest myself into a small shrimp and hold my bleeding heart.

It was on this bed that they slept together for several months. It was this bed... Fuer even secretly kissed him while he was asleep.

But why is everything gone?Why is he running?

Xu Jia thought for a while, what did he do wrong?He just fell in love with a person, and then wanted to be nice to that person, why did Fu Er feel so scared, and even wanted to run away from him?

Is this love...is it so unworthy of mention, is it so disgusting?

He thought for a while, where is Fuer now?Will it be cold and hungry?Is that old guy Zhang Yi taking good care of his brother?There are still demons, are the demons still committing crimes?What happened to his brother now... in the end?

But after a while, he would hate again, hated why Fuer could leave without saying goodbye, hated that he didn't even want to say goodbye...why Fuer could say no to everything in the past?

What about him?

Could it be that he... is also an existence that can be said or not in Fuer?

Ah, I forgot, he no longer wants him, he has abandoned him.

Often just thinking about it like this, the sky will dawn.Sleepless all night, but miss you all night.

The one I love never sleeps because he lives in my heart every moment.

The most beautiful thing is the person next to the pillow.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

Xu Jia felt his arm being tentatively pushed a few times, he frowned and opened his eyes, only to see Zhou Shun squatting aside and calling him softly.Seeing that he woke up, Zhou Shun breathed a sigh of relief, it's good to wake up.

It was noon when Xu Jia drove everyone out just now, but now it is already night, dusk is all around, and the chill is penetrating to the bone.

Zhou Shun was really anxious waiting outside, so he rushed in desperately. Who would have thought that as soon as he came in, he saw Xu Jia sitting on the ground with Xiao Chengan in his arms, both of them motionless, his heart stopped beating in fright, and he ran over It was later discovered that Xiao Chengan had just fallen asleep, but Xu Jia was so quiet that he couldn't even hear his breathing, as if... as if he didn't want to wake up again.

Zhou Shun, "Your Majesty, why did you fall asleep on the ground? Why don't we get up and drive back to Yugan Palace now?"

Xu Jia just woke up with a headache, "Where's Xiao Chengan?"

Zhou Shun, "Go back to the emperor. Just now, the servant handed His Royal Highness King Ke Yi over to Mother Fang, and it is estimated that he has already returned to Mengshu Palace."

Xu Jia got up from the ground, his bones creaking, "That's fine, go back to the palace."

Xu Jia originally wanted to take a hot bath and have a good rest after returning home, but just when he entered the door, he ran into an unexpected guest——Jiang Siyue.

In fact, Xu Jia had very little contact with Jiang Siyue, because he knew that Jiang Siyue belonged to Meng Zhonglian.Now that Jiang Siyue took the initiative to come to him, he didn't know what he was thinking.Xu Jia put away the exhaustion on his face, and when he sat down, he had adjusted all his emotions, and said in a skillful tune, "Why is Aiqing looking for me today?"

Jiang Siyue saluted, "Go back to the emperor, I heard that the emperor is still hunting down the informant related to Lesi Temple?"

Xu Jia raised his eyebrows, motioning for him to continue talking.

"It's a coincidence." Jiang Siyue said, "A few days ago, when my wife came back from visiting relatives in my hometown, when I was chatting with my minister, I accidentally mentioned that I saw a man who knew magic. He was big and thick and had a pattern on his left arm , and will drive the man who is the best, the minister heard, isn't this just like the thief? He rushed to report to the emperor, hoping to help the emperor."

This is also too coincidental.

This description is too detailed.

It was obviously aimed at the informant.

After Xu Jia heard it, he was not as excited as Jiang Siyue expected, but calmly closed his eyes, and after a pause of two seconds, he asked, "Where is the hometown that Ai Qing mentioned?"

Jiang Siyue, "Back to the emperor, it is the cave city."

Liu Qinuo glanced at Fu'er who was guarding the bed, and walked a few steps closer, "Don't worry, he's fine, he's still drugged, he'll be fine after a few hours of sleep."

After Fuer heard her voice, he didn't look back, and after a pause, he said, "Thank you."

Liu Qinuo smiled, "Don't, you all suffered this for no reason because of that ignorant Hou San'er. I apologize to you on his behalf."

This time, Fu Er acted as if he didn't hear her, and didn't answer her.

Liu Qinuo turned around, walked to Fu Er and sat down, glanced at the unmoved food next to him, and sneered, "Afraid we will be poisoned?"

In Fuer's silent silence, Liu Qinuo took a few mouthfuls of each dish with chopsticks, then raised his head and raised his eyebrows at Fuer, "Don't worry, it's not poisonous."

Fu Er said alienatedly, "Thank you, I'm not hungry."

Liu Qinuo put down her chopsticks, "It's not you, why are you so awkward?" After looking at Fu Er for a while, she lowered her head and sighed, and patted her thigh with her hand a few times, "Hey, how did you provoke that dog emperor? Is he going to chase you so closely?"

Hearing this, Fu Er looked up at her, "How do you know?"

Liu Qinuo looked at him amusedly, "How do I know what? I just got back from Nanqi, and there are portraits of you all over the road. Damn, you even confiscated my goods."

Fuer pursed his lips, not knowing how to answer.

Liu Qinuo got up, pointed to Zhang Yi and said, "In short, when he wakes up, the debt between us will be cancelled. I don't ask you anything else, as long as you can stay away from Dongcheng, or Mengshan Mountain, you will be fine." Enough is enough, it is best not to come back for the rest of your life."

She saved Fuer and the others because she didn't want to get involved in a lawsuit.According to the level of the emperor's search for someone, it is likely that this lord has committed some heinous crime. If she finds out that someone died at her place in the end, she will definitely not be able to bear it. Instead of doing this, it is better to cure Zhang Yi, by the way He also sold Fuer a favor.

I just hope that Fuer and Zhang Yi can stay away from Dongcheng, so that they don't provoke officers and soldiers.

When Pei Yu led his troops away from Gancheng, Zhou Shun risked his life and slipped out of the palace to see him off.Pei Yu sympathetically helped him gather his clothes, "Why are you here? The emperor found out, and you have to be scolded again."

Zhou Shun nodded his nose and smiled, "It's okay, I'm used to being scolded."

Pei Yu looked down at him with focused eyes, "My heart aches."

Zhou Shun's nose was sore when he heard this, he hit him with his hand, lowered his head and smiled, "It's no wonder you have such hypocritical moments."

Pei Yu pressed his shoulders with both hands, "Wait for me to come back."

Zhou Shun stuffed the warm water bag in his arms, "Take it with you, use it on the road."

Pei Yu smiled, "How can you be so delicate." Having said that, he held the hot water bag tightly.

Zhou Shun looked up at him, blinked slowly and wetly, "My heart aches."

At the same time that Pei Yu led the troops out of the city, Jiang Jieyu received the emperor's award, and directly changed from the third rank of rank to the first rank of rank, and was named Concubine Shu.

For a while, Jiang Shuyue became an existence of the same status as Concubine Hui in the palace, enviing everyone.

Because of Liu Qinuo's orders, Fuer is being treated up and down the Mount Meng now, just like a distinguished guest from afar.Except for Hou San who occasionally stared at Fu Er with such malicious eyes, even Xiong Qi became polite to Fu Er.

Fu Er devoted all his attention to Zhang Yi. It had been a whole night and Zhang Yi still showed no signs of waking up. Liu Qinuo comforted him, "Don't worry, he will definitely wake up this afternoon at the latest."

Fu Er withdrew his gaze, stared at her for two seconds and said, "Thank you."

Liu Qinuo shook his head with a smile, stood up and walked to the window to stand still, his eyes fell on the training ground not far away, as if he was wandering.

Fu Er said, "Actually, with your talent, you can have a better life."

He had observed Liu Qinuo's military formation last night when he had nothing to do, and it looked like a general, so it was no wonder that a group of men bowed their heads to her.

Liu Qinuo turned around, and at the same time, Fu'er raised his head and looked at her, "Why do you want to be a bandit?"

Liu Qinuo smiled, "Why can't I be a bandit?"

Fu Er said, "You are a good person."

Liu Qinuo smiled "puchi", "Just because I saved you yesterday?"

Fu Er said, "Not entirely."

Liu Qinuo raised an eyebrow at him.

Fu Erdao, "I still have feelings."

Liu Qinuo said, "Although Hou San is full of nonsense, there is one thing he said right, you really trust others too easily." She turned around again, her eyes fell on the training ground, "Even if you are safe and sound Go out from me or Mengshan, if no one protects you in the future, you will definitely do somersaults again."

Fu Er said, "Why?"

Liu Qinuo smiled, with a bit of coolness and disdain, "Because this world doesn't allow good people to survive." After finishing speaking, she leaned her arms on the window and turned around, "So I'm really curious Yes, just how did you raise your pure mind."

Fu Er lowered his eyes, "You can think about what I just said, if you go to serve the court..."

"If I go to work for the imperial court..." Liu Qinuo looked up and smiled, "Not to mention anything else, I will definitely be arrested as a bandit first."

Fuer pursed his lips and gave up persuading.

Liu Qinuo tilted his head, "Besides, if I leave, there will be no one to care about all the brats here."

Fuer's heart skipped a beat, and he looked up at her.

The midday sun shone on her side face, and also revealed the tiredness and gentleness between her brows, "My lord, not everyone in this world is like you. They are born with rich clothes and fine clothes, full of food and clothing, and warmth." , and there are many more people like us."

"I was abandoned by my parents when I was born, and I have been fighting dogs for food on the street since I was a child. Children can't earn money and have nothing to eat, so they can only steal the purses of rich people. If they catch them, they will be beaten violently. For the leftover half of the meat bun. My lord, tell me, is it worth it?"

Liu Qinuo turned around, looked at him and smiled slightly, "Compared with half a meat bun, which one is more important?"

"But when you are really in that situation, you realize that you don't even have time to think, because there is only one thought left in your heart: to live."

"I have lived with my elder sister since I was a child. When I was young, I had a high fever. I had no money, and the doctor refused to show it. What should I do? My elder sister went to steal medicine, and was dragged and beaten by the doctor. , asked my older sister to hand over the medicine, but my older sister refused to hand it over to death, so she was sent to the brothel by the doctor."

Speaking of this, Liu Qinuo lowered his head and smiled, his brows were calm, and he didn't seem to be sad, but the hand holding the window turned pale quietly, "I took the medicine and saved my life, and then I went to the brothel to look for it. When my sister was young, she was found naked and thrown on the straw in the pigsty, with bruises and bruises everywhere."

"I crawled over to see her, only to find that she had died long ago."

"But my lord, do you know?" Liu Qinuo raised his head and smiled at Fu Er, desolately and indifferently, "My sister was only 14 years old."

At the age of seven, she dragged her sister's body back in the heavy rain, dragged it to a stream where no one was there, and buried it.

"Later, I became a bandit, so I found the doctor from back then. Before I killed him, I asked him a word, and I said, don't you doctors should save the sick and treat the sick? Why did you do that? What? Do you know what he said to me?"

"He told me that only the life of the rich is life."

Liu Qinuo's tone was normal, but Fuer couldn't breathe when he asked, "Then you say, my lord, should I kill him?"

There have never been absolute bad guys and good guys in this world, and there will be an indelible scar in everyone's memory.

Liu Qinuo raised her hand, and there were red marks on the palm of her hand by the window, but she clapped her hands as if she didn't notice, moved away from the window, and pointed her finger outside, "Look, every bandit on the training ground , in the eyes of your court, they are all heinous crimes, but every cub here has worked hard to grow so big. Our lives are cheap, so we have to work hard to survive, unlike you, who were born They should be protected by others.”

"There are ways to live with a low life." Liu Qinuo smiled, "So don't make irresponsible remarks to me here."

"I will not leave, I will guard this mountain until I am old, until I die."

Fu Er's throat rolled, "So now that you are strong, you are going to bully those poor people? Do you want to let this kind of tragedy repeat itself from generation to generation?"

Liu Qinuo turned around, "The grain we collect is from the government's Liang, and we have never asked for 1.1 grains of rice from the common people."

Fuer said, "This is what you thought. How long has it been since you visited the city? Do you know what the city looks like every time Hou San and Xiong Qi receive confessions? Old and weak Do you know that women and children are hiding at home and dare not go out, and the streets are crowded with people for fear that they will be arrested if they run too slowly?"

Liu Qinuo gritted his teeth, and said firmly, "That's because they don't understand us, what we do is all good."

"Okay, let me ask you." Fu'er looked at her seriously, "I saw with my own eyes that Xiong Qi was going to cut off the head and eat a child, is this something that needs to be understood? Is it also my nonsense? "

Liu Qinuo turned pale for a moment, "You..." She clenched her fists tightly, "It's because you are prejudiced against them."

Fuer didn't continue to argue with her, and smiled lightly, "Really?"

"Of course it is! You don't know what we have encountered before, so what right do you have to talk about what we did here?!" Liu Qinuo took a step closer to him excitedly, "Then how good do you think the government is? Go? Is that Chengshou Qiyi some kind of good guy? That’s him, that’s the one who started trafficking children ten years ago. Babies are sold to you dignitaries as playthings, or sold to brothels in Gancheng; little boys are sold as coolies, and die in the wilderness to be eaten by wild dogs."

"Has your government ever managed these things? You said that you are doing everything for the people, but in the end we have to figure out a way to survive?"

Fu Er pursed his lips, and was about to speak when he was interrupted excitedly by Liu Qinuo, "What did you just say? Xiong Qi wants to eat children? Heh, then do you know how his pica came about? It is because he was sold to the government when he was a child. They used children as experiments, fed them poisonous insects and weeds every day, and fed them raw meat and urine when they were about to die, just to satisfy your desire for the power of the monster clan. Why don't you say it?"

It turned out that Xiong Qi's big man was not born, but was fed out the day after tomorrow.

"And... and Monkey Three, I know you hate him and look down on him, but do you know what happened to him? He was bought into the military camp when he was four years old, and all the other boys were dragged to do coolies , only because of his outstanding looks, he was dragged to be a military prostitute."

"A little boy, less than ten years old, was locked up in a dark military tent every day, and every time he came in and out of the tent, there were different people, filthy, filthy, unbearable. The other little boys died because of coolies He was the only one who saved his life because of this, but guess what was his first reaction when he heard that all the little boys with him were dead? He secretly drank the poison in the tent and used it with his own hands. The knife cut my face to pieces, and every cut was a scar that couldn't heal."

"He said that the other little boys have been liberated, so why leave him here to suffer?" Liu Qinuo said with red eyes, staring at Fuer and asked, "To live is to suffer, do you understand this feeling? "

A conversation ended unhappily like this. When Liu Qinuo opened the door and walked out, he heard Fuer's moderate voice, "But all the injuries you have suffered cannot be an excuse for you to hurt others."

The world would be completely insane if everyone was so wrapped up in his own sorrow and misfortune that he demanded that everyone else suffer the same hurt.

When Pei Yu arrived in Dongcheng, under the leadership of the people left behind by Jiang Siyue, he found the informant who had been searching for days but failed. Shi wanted to commit suicide by biting poison, but fortunately Pei Yu quickly stopped him, and he sternly said, "Take it away!"

The people on the street were startled by the sudden influx of officers and soldiers, and they all hid in the corners and did not dare to make a sound.Just when Pei Yu was about to withdraw his troops and return, a small voice came from behind him, "Jun...Mr. Jun, is what you wrote in this newspaper true?"

Pei Yu paused, followed the direction the man pointed, and his eyes fell on Fu Er and Zhang Yi's missing persons report. He opened his eyes wide in surprise, and immediately asked, "Have you seen These two people?"

The steamed stuffed bun boss said, "Yes, it was only a few days ago, but it should not be in Dongcheng now."

Pei Yu said, "Why do you know?"

The boss said, "Because I told them that this cave city is not safe. Besides, they encountered bandits on the day they came, so they should have been scared away."

Pei Yu closed his eyes, thinking in his heart, isn't Zhang Yi going to take Fuer to Nanqi?How could anyone have seen them in Cave City?Could it be that they have been hunting in the wrong direction all along?Nanqi is just a smoke bomb?

Pei Yu, who had found his mind, swept away the haze of the past few days. When he was about to send a letter to report to Xu Jia, he was stopped by the owner of the bun shop again. He turned around in doubt, "Is there anything else?"

"No...no more." The boss smiled stammeringly, "It's just that the newspaper says that those who provide information will be rewarded..."

At this point, Pei Yu understood instantly. He generously rewarded the money after taking the purse from his subordinate. The owner of the bun shop kept bowing to him with the money, which made Pei Yu feel a little embarrassed. When he was about to leave, he suddenly had another flash of inspiration, and turned around to ask his subordinates, "Do you still have any money?"

Subordinate, "..." Can I say no?

Pei Yu put together all the money and gave it to the boss, and ordered that if there was any news, he should report it directly to the officers and soldiers who stayed in Dongcheng.

The boss bowed his waist and nodded yes, watching Pei Yu leave.

Or on Mengshan Mountain, Zhang Yi, who had fainted for nearly a day and a night, finally regained consciousness. When he saw Fu Er who was guarding the bed, his eyes turned red again, and the image of Fu Er kneeling on the ground appeared in his mind that day, "I'm sorry."

Fu Er smiled, "Second Uncle, neither of us should say sorry, it's all over." He helped Zhang Yi to sit up, "How is your recovery? If you still need to rest, we will leave tomorrow .”

"In short, the cave city can no longer be kept."

Zhang Yi said, "Why?"

Fu Er lowered his eyes, "I heard from them today that Pei Yu brought troops here. It seems that although they didn't come for the two of us, just in case, if they come back, we will be in trouble."

"Okay." Zhang Yi paused, raised his eyes to meet Fu'er's, "Then we'll leave tomorrow."

Fu Er said, "Yes."

Zhou Shun took the flying pigeon and handed the letter to Xu Jia.Xu Jia first slowly unfolded the letter, and then froze in place. His face sank from shock at first, and then he gritted his teeth and held the note tightly in his hand.

Zhou Shun didn't dare to show his breath at the side, and stood silently with his waist slightly bent.

Xu Jia let out a sharp breath, "Prepare the horse!"

The half-day and one-night itinerary was abruptly reduced to one night by Xu Jia. He rode fast and rode the best horse in the palace. Even Zhou Shun couldn't keep up with him. Later, the horse was so tired that he didn't want to run, so Xu Jia Abandoned halfway, he rushed to Dongcheng with his feet.

When Xu Jia arrived in Dongcheng, the sun was just about to rise, and the sky was gray, and the five fingers could be seen faintly.

Pei Yu didn't expect him to come so fast, and thought it was because he didn't explain clearly in his letter, so he repeated, "Your Majesty, there is only news that the Prime Minister of the State has been to Dongcheng a few days ago, but now he doesn't know..."

Xu Jia untied his cloak and interrupted him, "Did you find it?"

Pei Yu said, "I have ordered people to search inside and outside the cave city, but there is no further news."

Xu Jia's face was covered with icy residues from running all the way, and now it slowly melted into small drops of water in the room, "Have you searched for them all?"

Pei Yu said, "I've searched all the places in the city, and only those outside the city or Mengshan are left."