Rui Hegui

Zhao Liangyue didn't know when he lost consciousness.

Just in a trance, old dreams entangled each other, turning into a ball of flying catkins, floating within easy reach, Zhao Liangyue raised his hand to touch, but flew far away.

This ball of flying catkins kept floating like this, Zhao Liangyue subconsciously chased after it, and raised his hand countless times to catch it, but it was all in vain.

"Who do I know, it turned out to be you."

In the back house of Mr. Zhao's house, the young man was chased by several servants with sticks and vicious faces. In desperation, he ran into a deserted small courtyard in front of him. As soon as he stepped in, there was a gloomy and vicissitudes from the courtyard. An extremely familiar voice.

The young man turned his head in surprise, and he really saw the gray-haired old man sitting under the eaves, wearing a plain blue shirt and a volume of books on his lap, looking at him with a smile, as if he had walked out of the depths of his memory.

The servants outside were still yelling the boy's name, threatening to chop off his hands and feet, and the boy couldn't help but tremble in fright.

"Come on, go into the house and hide."

The old man nodded slightly and said hello. The young man hurriedly got up and scrambled into the room.

After a while, those servants entered the small courtyard, first saluted the old man, and then asked if they saw the young man, but was dismissed lightly by the old man.

After the servant left, the young man came out from the back room, knelt down in front of the old man, he was very grateful, and immediately saluted him, saying: "Thank you, old man, for saving me again!"

The old man bowed and stretched out his hand to help the young man up, but he didn't have any strength in his body. The young man stood up with the help, and then his stomach growled suddenly, and the young man lowered his head in embarrassment.

The old man smiled, handed the plum blossom cake on the side to the young man, and asked, "What's wrong with this?"

"I stole something." The young man gobbled down a few pieces of plum cake before continuing, "The child named Youbai in my yard didn't have winter clothes. Seeing that it was getting colder, I... old man, I have Take responsibility for what you taught me when you left."

The old man sighed lightly, and said: "In the world of cold and starvation, what's the use of talking about those verbal shame?"

The young man was slightly relieved, and raised his hand to put the remaining plum cake into his sleeve pocket.

Seeing this, the old man asked, "Where is that child named Youbai in your yard now?"

"I let him hide. I was responsible for leading those servants away. That's why I was chased here. I thought I was going to die today." His eyes were bright at that time, and he smiled at the old man for the rest of his life, "I didn't expect to be saved by the old man again, you are like a god."

As soon as the boy finished speaking, a sudden north wind blew up, the last few leaves of the paulownia tree in the courtyard fell off, half of the old man's clothes were lifted, and then the boy saw the heavy shackles on the old man's ankles, and exclaimed.

"You are a good boy, but this old man is not a god." The old man smiled bitterly, looked up at the lifeless tung tree, suddenly thought of something, pulled the young man to his side, and asked , "Why don't you come to be the old man's student?"

The young man stared blankly at the old man, his eyes mixed with astonishment and bewilderment, making him at a loss for what to do.

"Being my student, the old man will have a way to keep you and that child alive."

Hearing this, the young man opened his eyes wide, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Student pays respects to teacher!"

In fact, in the heart of the young man at that time, he didn't know why the old man suddenly accepted him as a student, he didn't know what the old man would teach him, and he didn't know what kind of path he would take in the future, but in the old man's words, "survive "Three words are really too tempting.

When my mother passed away, she clutched his sleeve tightly and said these three words.

"Live."

Zhao Liangyue opened his eyes suddenly.

The light was hazy and the shadows were vague. After staying for a while, Zhao Liangyue's vision became clear.He was lying in an elegant wing at the moment, which seemed to be the guest room of a restaurant, and seeing that the nearby lights were about to burn out, the surroundings were silent, it must be late at night.

Zhao Liangyue moved his numb neck, looked to the side, and saw Bandit Chu sitting at the table with his head on his hands and his eyes closed, presumably falling asleep.

Zhao Liangyue's mouth was parched at this time, and after gathering some strength, he slowly got up and got out of bed, wanting to pour a glass of water for a drink.

"Xi Lin, you're awake." Bandit Chu opened his eyes almost instantly, hurried over to make Zhao Liangyue sit back, turned around and poured tea to Zhao Liangyue.

Zhao Liangyue was not polite, and even drank several cups.

"Are you hungry? The porridge is always warm in the kitchen." Chu Bandit was about to call someone in, but Zhao Liangyue raised his hand to stop him.

"Have you already entered Ningzhou City?" Zhao Liangyue thought for a while, then asked again, "Have you been here for a few days, have you met Zhizhou and other officials, have you found any clues?"

Bandit Chu knew that if he didn't tell Zhao Liangyue, he would definitely not take a good rest, so he straightened his mind and said, "It's been three days since I entered Ningzhou City, and Wu Yi is just a tiger with a smiling face. Little official, Wu Yi and the others probably want to ask a master named Pei Qu about knowing everything about Ningzhou."

"Then where is this master from?"

"It's not like Wu Yi's person, nor like Wang Han's person. This is also something strange to me." Chu bandit frowned, "He is just one of the many masters in the Ningzhou government office, and his background is very low. There is no difference on weekdays, and he looks very ordinary, but both parties are too fond of him, and even obey him."

Zhao Liangyue also frowned and asked, "Is there anything else going on?"

"The trip to Tang County has to be slow." Bandit Chu narrowed his peach blossom eyes halfway, showing a bit of awe, and said, "We need to kill Wu Yi immediately and then play, and find a way to remove Wu Yi from his official position in order to buy time."

Zhao Liangyue sighed lightly when he heard the words, and said clearly: "It seems that the government offices in Ningzhou City are already rotten, and they can't do anything if they don't change their blood."

"My plan is that our side will deal with it first, and Xu Guangchuan will arrive after it is estimated."

Zhao Liangyue recalled the scene where Xu Guangchuan held the book of thousands of people in the next day's Tai Palace, and made an impassioned speech, which aroused the excitement of all the officials, saying: "He is an official of Ningzhou, and he has made meritorious service for the people. Master Tang County, but it's not impossible to temporarily take over this burden when the time comes."

"Anyway, I will be scolded by the censor at that time." Chu Bandit laughed, "It's not too short of such an impeachment."

Speaking of this, Zhao Liangyue remembered the matter of entering the woods in front of Ningzhou City, and looked down at Chu Bandit's right hand, which was indeed still bandaged.

Bandit Chu noticed Zhao Liangyue's gaze and knew that he remembered what happened that day, so he took the lead and said, "The person who threatened to take my head was Xue Ran, the former Minister of the Ministry of War. The member is him."

Zhao Liangyue frowned, and he had the same expression that day, and was about to say something, but just said "you", Chu bandit immediately interrupted: "You have been in a drowsy sleep for three days, you must be hungry by now. "Speaking, Chu bandit got up and went out directly. After a while, Youbai came running in with hot porridge.

"My lord, you are awake!" Youbai dragged the table domineeringly to the side of the bed, and set out the porridge for Zhao Liangyue to eat.

Zhao Liangyue quickly finished a bowl, and he wanted to serve Youbai, but Zhao Liangyue stopped him.

"One bowl is enough." Zhao Liangyue wiped his mouth, feeling that after sleeping for three days, his bones were going to be crisp, so he said, "Go and get my clothes, I want to get up and go out for some activities."

"Oh, don't do anything wrong in the middle of the night!" Youbai hurriedly pushed back Zhao Liangyue who was about to get up, "My lord, you must be awake, and you have to be healthy, with all your arms and legs!"

Seeing Youbai's exaggerated appearance, Zhao Liangyue was speechless, and couldn't help giving him a sharp look, and said, "When did I become so hypocritical? It's only normal to be sick."

Youbai clicked his tongue, came over and squatted down in front of Zhao Liangyue, and said, "My lord, you don't know how fierce Master Chu was at that time, it was too terrifying!"

Zhao Liangyue was puzzled: "What happened?"

"My lord, do you know why we live in a restaurant?" Youbai said with lingering fear, "At that time you passed out suddenly and fell unconscious. Master Chu took you to the outside of Ningzhou City on horseback and was stopped. The gold waist card was used to show their identity. Who would have thought that those officers and soldiers, as if they had no eyes, insisted that they could only enter the city after entering the pass, and they suspected that the gold waist card was a fake. Then the knife in Mr. Chu's hand is so fast, then Several officers and soldiers died on the spot, their heads and necks were separated directly, and then Master Chu picked up the head of the leading officer and soldier with a knife and hung it on the horse's head. , so no one dared to stop us all the way.”

"After we arrived in the city, Wu Yi came late. Seeing that you were in an urgent condition, he said to find a doctor to show you. Since we are newcomers, we agreed. Who knows that we can't wait for anyone, so Master Chu chopped off Wu Yi on the spot. Finger, and told him that if the doctor didn't arrive in a quarter of an hour, Wu Yi's hands might be gone, so Wu Yi obediently obeyed, and quickly called the doctor. On the first day, he stayed in the government office as usual. But Mr. Chu soon discovered something unusual, so he took everyone out of the government office overnight, and stayed in this restaurant, and Mr. Chu specially hired two doctors to guard here."

Zhao Liangyue was startled when he heard that, and recalled that day Chu Bandit got angry with him, and finally heaved a long sigh, saying: "Forget it, why should I argue with him again? It's hard to distinguish between cause and effect, whether it's his guilt towards the teacher, It's still due to my kindness to take care of my junior brother, if he can really use whatever means for his purpose and abandon everyone around him, he might be losing his heart."

"My lord, you have finally figured it out." Youbai got up and rubbed Zhao Liangyue's shoulders, and said, "Actually, I thought, my lord, the sword you stabbed at that time was really too dangerous. I heard Zhuo Shaoxia say that even He didn't even expect you to make a move, and his heart was about to jump out of his throat when he saw it."

Zhao Liangyue twisted the quilt with his fingers, thought for a while, and felt that he wanted to say something, but it seemed that the words would not convey the meaning, so he gave up.

Zhao Liangyue felt that he should care about Chu Bandit's injury.

So the next day, Zhao Liangyue got up the earliest, and stood outside Chu bandit's door at dawn.

Bandit Chu heard the rustling outside, but felt that there was no killing intent, so he thought it was a close servant, and because he was busy day and night, he was really tired, so he closed his eyes and went to sleep.

Until he was in a daze, Chu bandit heard the servant outside calling Mr. Zhao, sober up immediately, put on a robe, got up and went out to open the door, saw Zhao Liangyue was standing outside the door playing with a pot of bluegrass that was about to wither, and then Ask: "When did you come?"

"Just came." Zhao Liangyue raised his hand to touch his nose, turned to look at Chu Bandit, his lips moved a lot, and he had prepared a lot to say, but finally turned into a sentence, "Thank you that day, your injury how?"

Hearing this, Bandit Chu knew that the dispute of that day had turned the page. He couldn't help but smile, his peachy eyes widened, and he returned to his previous appearance. He leaned in front of Zhao Liangyue in two steps, leaned over and said, "It's okay, it's okay, Xi Lin doesn't need to worry, but Xilin finally started to feel sorry for me, senior brother, and senior brother is happier than those people in Beijing marrying their daughters."

What kind of strange and irrelevant metaphor is this?

But when Zhao Liangyue heard the words, it was rare that he didn't express his disgust. Chu Biao took the opportunity and said, "Why don't you call me senior brother? Anyway, as a senior brother, I went through five trials and killed six generals for my junior brother all the way. If Xi Lin called me..."

"Brother."

Before Bandit Chu could say a lot, Zhao Liangyue raised his head and called him with a smile.

Bandit Chu was stunned for a moment, forgetting the glib words he used to say.

The sun was rising and the morning light was twilight. The two looked at each other in the breeze. Zhao Liangyue's eyes were clear and bright, and his smile was quiet and long-lost. He looked at Chu Bandit as if he was looking at Youbai with the teacher.

Bandit Chu thought, the injury was worth it.

Chu Bandit also thought that if he missed Jinse, if he could become the important person in his heart, it would be a consolation for this troubled half of his life.