Reclaiming the Way of the Empire

When eating breakfast the next morning, Xie Xiangfeng didn't see Su Xingyun, and secretly glanced in the direction of Ren Pingsheng and Li Ting, making a questioning look.Li Ting smiled and replied: "Su Xingyun has gone out, brother, you don't need to look for it."

Xie Xiangfeng blinked, said nothing, lowered his head and continued to eat the porridge in front of him, eating bite by bite very seriously.On the contrary, Xu You and Ren Pingsheng discussed the recent situation very seriously. The situation on Knight Island is not optimistic. The opposition forces captured two important ports last night.

A prince to replace Gu Junchou has not yet been selected, and Xie Junhuai's face was not very good when he came out to make a statement.For the first time in hundreds of years, the largest planet in the Wobend galaxy appeared in a state of decline. Xu You thought that the Chivalrous Island was exhausted, but Ren Pingsheng didn't think so.

A group of people surrounded them, almost all the people in Kaifeng surrounded them, watching them discuss in full swing.Li Ting heaved a long sigh, and really wanted to tell them not to worry, anyway, Xia Kedao will fail in the end, but not now.

During the war, although the Knights Island has been defeated, the opposition forces have no way to annex the people of the Knights Island in one fell swoop.As long as the Knights Island is still there, the opposition forces will eventually have problems with the uneven distribution of spoils. In the end, the unified empire of the Knights Island will surely recover the lost ground bit by bit.

However, Li Ting didn't understand why Xie Junhuai fell ill at such a critical moment, and why he agreed to Gu Junchou's resignation.

"By the way!" Mo Yuan turned around and saw Xiangfeng instantly, "Where is my brother, have you seen my brother?"

Xie Xiangfeng shrugged and shook his head, he didn't know anything about Mo Youwen.Mo Yi was also surprised, and murmured to himself: "Why haven't I seen him since I got up in the morning, did he go out?"

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Gushan on Knights Island is a mountain full of poisonous insects and zombies, but the scenery is very beautiful.

The residents of the empire, whether they are nobles or civilians, will not take the initiative to climb this mountain. In addition, the military of the empire has conducted experiments on the mountain. Who knows if the radiation on it exceeds the standard. It is such a very dangerous mountain. There are actually many things hidden in the depths of the mountain.

For example, Xie Junhuai's private villa, such as the reclusive No. [-] king of Xia Ke Island: Wang Wengang.

Follow the trail on Gushan through a jungle on the mountainside, and then you can pass through a cave. In the depths of Gushan, you can see a small open-air garden. Flowers in the garden are watered.

There seemed to be wind chimes ringing at the entrance of the cave. The old man was a little surprised. He turned his head to look in the direction of the cave. Suddenly, with a bang, the kettle in his hand fell, and the water in the kettle splashed on his long gown. Not wanting to do this, he turned around and ran to the hut not far behind him.

"It's come to this point today, do you still want to avoid me?"

The white-haired old man paused in his footsteps, and finally gave a wry smile. He stopped and turned his back to the visitor: "I didn't expect you to come back... I thought that I would never see you again in this life."

The visitor took a few steps forward, walked through the flowers and plants, and came to the old man, stretched out his hand and pulled the old man to face him face to face: "Since I thought that I would never see each other again, why, now I don't want to see my face anymore Yet?"

The old man looked at the man's face in front of him, and there were muddy tears in his eyes. His not-so-old hands tremblingly fell out from the sleeves of his gown, and gently wiped the man's face. Tears and laughed: "My father always liked to teach me to read those ancient Chinese poems, I still don't understand, but now I see how beautiful the peach blossoms are all over the mountains and plains - I just remembered a poem: I don't know where to go, but the peach blossoms are still there Xiao Chunfeng. Isn’t it just you and me?”

The man shook his head, and only took the old man's hand from his face and held it in his hand: "The poem said that things are right and people are wrong. I am standing in front of you now, and you don't use that word well."

"That's right," the old man smiled, "My father always said that you are a good learner, and you are a good learner when you meet each other. He never said a word about me."

The person who secretly visited the depths of Gu Shan was Mo Youwen's elder brother Mo Youwen, the second king who had disappeared for many years in Xia Ke Island.And the old man who lived in seclusion in the mountains turned out to be Wang Wengang, who lived in seclusion and was said to be the first royal.

They were of average age, but standing together now, they seemed to be old and middle-aged.

"Your hair..." Mo Youwen couldn't help reaching out to touch Wang Wengang's hair, "Why is it white?"

This time Wang Wengang was stopped by Mo Youwen's question. He smiled wryly, shook his head, stretched out his hand to grab Mo Youwen's hand and said, "If you ask, if you ask me, you always ask me such questions that I can't answer. But your surname is Mo, didn't I tell you not to ask so many questions?"

Mo Youwen smiled: "If you didn't tell me, I guessed a little bit. Since today is so painful, why did you insist on it?"

Wang Wengang didn't speak, but just held Mo Youwen's hand tightly and smiled wryly.

"Back then, if you had been braver, with your authority and status and the prestige of the master, how could you have come to this?" Mo Youwen also smiled wryly, "You can't catch up with the past, Wen Gang, I came today to ask Let me ask you, back then, I asked you the question, now, would you give me a different answer?"

Wang Wengang was taken aback for a moment, and he stared blankly at Mo Youwen. Is Mo Youwen willing to ask him the same question back then?

When they first got together back then, they were young heroes and sympathetic to each other, and the Knights Island prospered and prospered under their rule.However, whoever is young and frivolous will not do some wrong things, all the conflicts between Wang Wengang and Mo Youwen broke out on a child.

Wang Wengang was frightened by the fact that Mo Youwen had a child, but Mo Youwen was severely injured by Wang Wengang's attitude, so the relationship between the two soon reached a freezing point, and then Mo Youwen left sadly, The two of them haven't seen each other for so many years.

"Now that the battle outside is so tense, you can still water the flowers with such a heart."

Wang Wengang hesitated, but Mo Youwen continued. He looked at the flowers and plants around him. They were all very delicate flowers. If he wanted to cultivate these flowers and plants on Gushan, he would not be able to do it without a lot of thought.Wang Wengang, who didn't know what Mo Youwen meant, just stood aside quietly and didn't reply.

"You, do you still remember Li Ting?" Mo Youwen asked another question, maybe he himself felt that he had asked too much, he smiled again, "My parents have already expected my temperament, and took it for me. Such a name, but I still have to ask. Do you remember Li Ting?"

Wang Wengang nodded: "Li Hua's son is still engaged to Xie Junhuai, what's wrong?"

Mo Youwen smiled, didn't say anything, just let out a long sigh: "It seems that you have lived in seclusion for too long, you don't know what happened outside."

"how?"

"He recently gave birth to a cute baby," Mo Youwen looked into Wang Wengang's eyes, "with a man."

Wang Wengang opened his mouth, but bowed his head without speaking.

"My sister, intentionally, she always thought I was dead," Mo Youwen re-opened the topic without thinking, "The city of Rui Nuo has been established all these years, and she has always wanted to avenge me—she has been I believe that my departure and my subsequent 'death' were all caused by you."

"I... asked me..."

"No, there's no need to say more about apologizing." Mo Youwen looked at the place with some emotion, "Before I came here, I thought about many possibilities of reuniting with you. I might hate you. I might want to get back together with you, I might..."

Saying that, Mo Youwen suddenly smiled and shook his head:

"Wen Gang, we are all getting old..."

"Yeah, I'm old..." Wang Wengang said, "Back then you came here in the rain all night, and asked me sincerely if I would like to go with you, and told me about my child. I... was too surprised and couldn't accept it. , and even shut you out, without...considering your feelings at all."

Mo Youwen smiled and said nothing.

"Later, I hid at home and ignored you. I waited for a long, long time, but finally received the bloody package you sent me, and they told me that you left." Wang Wengang stroked his hair, Some helpless.

"So that's how it is," Mo Youwen looked at Wang Wengang's white hair, and smiled slowly, "So the story about white hair overnight in the book really happened, I thought it was the storyteller who told the story to make people cry... ..."

Mo Youwen looked at Wang Wengang. Back then, in Dongshui Pavilion, he came down from the mountain with two barrels of spring water. The master sat far away under a pine tree and played chess. The young man stood respectfully beside the master and said something. , but suddenly looked up at him.

Then he even smiled at him, and immediately walked over to carry the load of water for him: "The peach blossoms on this mountain are really blooming, Dad, such a beautiful person, why are you willing to let him do these rough and heavy jobs? If there is not enough manpower, how about I hire two smart lions for you?"

Wang Zhongwen didn't say anything, but slowly picked up one of the black and white chess pieces and put it down quietly, looking at him with deep meaning.

Mo Youwen understood at the time, and immediately went over to grab the burden from the young man: "This is what I should do, everything should be done by myself, thank you sir for your help."

The young man did not compete with him, but stood beside the peach blossoms on the mountain path, watching him quietly walking down the mountain path carrying water, bending over to pour the water in the bucket into the big water tank.

It's not that he didn't know the fiery gaze behind him, but Mo Youwen, who lived in the mountains for a long time at that time, didn't know what Wang Wengang's expression represented.

"Stinky boy, you don't come to visit me a few times a year. Every time you come, you think about abducting my disciple." Wang Zhongwen coughed twice in a timely manner, "You will go down the mountain after dinner."

Only then did Mo Youwen find out that the handsome young man was the only son of his master. He heard that he had a good grade in the military academy at the foot of the mountain, and he was considered the most valued person by the imperial army. However, Master I don't like this son at all.After Shi Niang passed away, she lived alone in Dongshui Pavilion and refused to use the high-tech products of the alliance.

At this moment, the only person who is still insisting on using candles, working from sunrise to sunset, is probably only the owner of Dongshui Pavilion, his master Wang Zhongwen.

Mo Youwen does not reject this kind of life, which is simple and peaceful.Like the peach blossoms planted by my wife on the mountain road, they are already blooming so well now.He took a square towel and wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then went to cook with the freshly picked water.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he made a move, the master's son jumped over in three steps at a time: "My God! You can cook! It's so strange that rice can be cooked in this dark pot?"

Mo Youwen smiled kindly, didn't answer, just nodded.

"You're so pretty." The young man didn't pester him any more, but just crossed his hands, stood at the door of the kitchen, and began to scrutinize him.

He spent most of his days on the mountain, although sometimes he would be stared at when he went out of Dongshui Pavilion, but he was far less presumptuous than this person now.Mo Youwen looked up at the master quietly, but found that the master didn't care at all, as if he only cared about the chess game on his own board.

Mo Youwen sighed secretly in his heart, and then he looked up at the young man standing in the kitchen: "Mr. Wang, there is a lot of oily smoke in this kitchen, you should be choking while standing here, besides, if you don't want dinner If you eat fried food, go over and talk to the master. I will prepare it in a while."

"Wen Gang."

"Huh?" He didn't quite understand what the young man said.

"My name is Wang Wengang, nice to meet you!" The young man stretched out his hand to Mo Youwen, and then, under his astonished expression, shook his hand back and forth twice, and then stopped entanglement. Immediately went to pester the old pavilion master to talk about the world.

Perhaps, Wang Wengang has been very interested in him since the day they met, but at that time, the two of them only regarded it as a delicate relationship, and did not expect that it would bring them such pain in the future.

Waiting for leisure to change the old man's heart, but the old man's heart is easy to change.That's exactly what happened.

"So...you will become like this—" Mo Youwen regained consciousness from his memories, and looked at Wang Wengang who was standing in the middle of a peach grove. The young man who was in the prime of his life and high spirits had turned into a hunched man. A tall white-haired old man.

Wang Wengang didn't know that Mo Youwen was thinking, but he was a little ashamed to meet his old friends, and when Mo Youwen mentioned Li Ting and the child, he took a step forward, but finally staggered and almost fell forward.

Mo Youwen hugged his waist from behind him: "It turns out that you also had such a weak time, Wen Gang, when you abducted me from the mountain like this, I always felt that your arms were so strong, even if I No matter how hard you struggle, you can’t seem to escape.”

"Don't, don't talk about it..." Wang Wengang stroked Mo Youwen with trembling hands, "If you have a question, don't say it..."

Recalling the events of the past can only increase the embarrassment of today, not to mention that back then, both Wang Wengang and Mo Youwen knew that the person who took the initiative to tease was Wang Wengang himself. That's why it's what it is today.

Mo Youwen also fell silent with his arms around Wang Wengang. He didn't come here today to reconcile with Wang Wengang. If the two of them could go back to the past, he wouldn't have to hide in such an abandoned star cluster for so long, so he coughed lightly. Said in one voice: "Wen Gang, I came to see you today because I really have something to see you."

Wang Wengang heard this, turned his head to look at Mo Youwen, hesitated, and finally said: "Then, how about going into the room to talk? I... Actually, I have learned over the years, the kind of love that you and your father were pursuing together back then. The realm of drinking tea, for the last time, I have a question, I want to make you some tea, okay?"

Mo Youwen looked at the twinkling light in Wang Wengang's eyes, as if he had returned to the phrase "You are so beautiful" that Wang Wengang said many years ago when he stood beside him, it seemed that the high-spirited young man had returned.

But when he thought of the reason for his trip, Mo Youwen smiled helplessly, and finally suppressed the moisture in his eyes: "Okay, let me see your craftsmanship."