a lifetime

Chapter 23

Moon White (Fuji Chrysanthemum)

Kikumaru arrived at Okaran a month later than Kirihara.

He was relieved to know the news, and he didn't need to tell the news of Aaron's death himself.

Of course, he would not tell Fuji that he sneaked away while Tezuka was not paying attention, but obviously Fuji knew it very early on, which was obvious from the room that Fuji had prepared for him earlier and when Fuji saw him. You can tell by laughing that he is not stupid.

But he still ignored the possible danger.

With sharp eyes, he rushed up the moment he saw Fuji, and hung on him firmly.

No two grow taller.This is his first reaction.

"Meow, no two, no two, I miss you so much~" This was his first sentence.

"Hey, I miss Eiji very much too." Fuji patted him on the back with a smile, exhaled warmly, his heart was beating suddenly, his face seemed to be burning, and he hurriedly jumped away.At a glance, he saw the taller and taller Echizen next to him, a bit like Tezuka, clear and cold, without thinking too much, he jumped hard, lowered Echizen a lot, hooked his neck, and then calmed down.

"It's not so small anymore, meow, it's getting taller and taller, and Master Kikumaru can't catch meow."

Echizen muttered dissatisfiedly, with an impatient expression on his face, and looked straight past Kikumaru at Fuji, but the latter seemed very happy to see him, and smiled enviously: "Well, Eiji and Ryoma have a good relationship. .”

"Huh? Ryoma?" Kikumaru's unexpected sharpness made him stunned, "Since when did Fuji become so close to the little one?" The next moment, he hugged Fuji's arm again and asked with a bright smile, but he didn't wait. The second replied, and then started to deduce endlessly: "Meow, I know meow, at that time Buer disappeared and Xiao Budian went to look for it, and then I heard that Xiao Budian has been with Fuji all the time, um, it's been three years now, no wonder meow I'm so envious, Meow."

Hearing that he was sound and reasonable, Bu Er couldn't help but chuckled, rubbed his orange head, and said dotingly: "Ei Er has become smarter, but when it comes to intimacy, haven't I always been called Ying Er Ying Er?"

"It's meow, it's the best meow." Kikumaru immediately rubbed up like a puppy.

In the next moment, Fuji murmured, "Hey, I haven't seen you for three years. I didn't expect Eiji and Oishi to be closer."

"Acridine?" He blinked his round eyes twice, very confused.

"Because Eiji's chattering looks more and more like a big stone, Ryoma, don't you think so?" Fuji is still smiling, and he is harmless to humans and animals.

Echizen snorted lightly, turned his head away slightly, and did not speak.

Ju Wan jumped up and down like a startled rabbit: "How can there be meow? No, no, no, you hate meow too much."

"Hehe." Buer tilted his head and looked at him brilliantly, as if watching a good show.

He danced for a while before calming down resentfully, and approached Buer wagging his tail like a puppy.He stroked his head reassuringly.

I don't know when Huadi also appeared, standing beside Fuji, holding a cup in his hand.Bu Er took the quilt and handed it to him, and said softly, "Hey, Ying Er is tired, drink a cup of tea to refresh yourself."

He was so moved that he took it with blinking eyes, "Meow, best is best meow."

He raised his head and gulped it down, but in the next moment, his pupils widened, he looked at Buer in disbelief, aggrieved and puzzled, and fell straight down.

When he woke up, he was lying on the recliner, and all he saw was Buer's magnified smiling face. He was startled and fell to the ground, and Buer hurriedly helped him up, looking very distressed.

He trembled a few times in his heart, but finally he couldn't match Buer's moist eyes, and pressed them against them.

After thinking about it several times, he finally asked embarrassingly, "What is Bu Er giving me to drink?"

"Fu Erzhi, I didn't expect Ei Er to dislike it so much." Very wronged, very wronged.

"Ah, no, it's not, it's just...meow, Fuji, I'm not...me"

Bu Er squinted his eyes and smiled brightly: "Does Ying Er like it?"

Hearing this, he was startled, and hurriedly jumped ten steps away, crossing his hands continuously, fumbling his mouth and unable to form a sentence.

"Hehe, Eiji is still cute." Only then did Fuji get up seriously, sat on the recliner, and waved to him: "Hey, Eiji don't be afraid, I don't want to see Eiji work so hard, but there is no way, Tezuka's Orders must be obeyed."

"what?"

"But it's really disappointing to be so unpopular when making Fujijuice for the first time. It's so sad." After saying that, he lowered his head and shrugged his shoulders as if sobbing.

"Ha!" Seeing that he looked very sad, Juwan panicked for a while, ran a few times, and finally rushed over, comforting: "Actually, it's not that bad, but I'm serious, really Yes, most, at least it is better than dry juice..."

Buer raised his head when he heard the sound, and sighed lightly, "Really? It's better than dry juice?" His expression was sad, and the meaning was unclear.He ignored Kikumaru and went out alone.

Kikumaru stared at his back for a long time without thinking of a reason, and left the room resentfully, saw that Fuji was tinkering with a lot of herbs piled up beside him, trembled twice unexpectedly, did not dare to approach, and was about to fall run.

But he didn't want to be caught by Buer, and forced him to give him a reference. He couldn't help shaking, how could he dare to make any suggestions, muttering who should be counted if he accidentally ate someone to death?

Buer looked at him amusedly, and finally allowed him to leave as if his conscience realized it.

However, he was stopped by Buer before taking two steps. He turned around tremblingly, but saw that Buer's blue eyes were full of sadness, and when the wind blew, they were blocked by hair. He couldn't see clearly, but that kind of breath really made him uncomfortable and depressed, so he approached and called out tentatively: "Bu Er?"

Fuji shook his head lightly, and said with a slight smile: "Hey, it's nothing, I just suddenly remembered Aron, hey, Eiji, can you tell me? Aron... Kirihara only said that he won Longchuan's victory some type of."

"Well, Aaron is amazing. He rushed into the enemy army and killed the enemy commander. Although...he didn't come back." After a pause, he said, "No, actually we found his body At that time, his face was full of smiles, unlike the usual Aaron, his smile was really dazzling, ah, I mean Aaron has no regrets, no, if it has to be said..."

He stopped suddenly, looked straight into Fuji's eyes, and said word by word: "Fuer, Aaron has always cared about you..." He saw the crystal tears streaming down from Fuji's eyes, and suddenly couldn't continue, However, when he thought of the mustard pastries that Aaron had eaten in the past three years, he couldn't bear it. He didn't know what kind of thoughts Aaron had in mind, but he believed that Buer should know these things, so he continued talking in a low and slow voice. of.

He said: "Aron seldom mentions Buer, but when someone mentions it, he will be silent for a long time, and then go to the kitchen to make a lot of wasabi cakes, laughing and crying while eating, he always mutters to himself honestly, saying Buer will not be knocked down, say Buer will definitely get better, say we will meet again one day..."

Seeing that Bu Er's tears formed a thread, he couldn't wipe it away, and finally couldn't help but also shed tears, choked up and stopped talking.

After a long time, Fuji raised his head and took a deep breath, and asked with a forced smile, "Hey, Eiji, does Aaron have anything to say to me?"

"No, because it was very sudden..." After thinking for a while, he said again: "But he made a lot of mustard pastries the night before and said that he could make more after the war, but...it took too long and it broke... "

"That's it..." Uncontrollably, the broken teardrops dripped down into threads again.

Kikumaru wiped it for him in a panic, but he refused with a smile, went back to the room alone, and slowly closed the wooden door.

Kikumaru watched helplessly, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

After standing in the yard for a long time, I slowly calmed down.

Walking alone on the street, he met Huadi, and followed him to the barracks. Although the military discipline of the Ganglan defenders was not as good as that of Longchuan Yanjing, their strength was not ordinary. He picked a few more people to try and got tired.

Then he sparred with Huadi, after hundreds of rounds, he was tired and exhausted, so he simply called a stop, walked around a few more times, saw Yutai, asked a lot of questions excitedly, and returned to the commander's mansion with Huadi at nightfall.

Seeing Echizen from a distance riding a big horse and going away, he yelled a few times but ignored him, muttered a few times in dissatisfaction, then calmed down, entered the commander's mansion, and his attendants led him to dinner, and he has not seen him all this time. No two, Huadi boiled medicine to heat up the food, and he offered to deliver it by himself, but Huadi ignored him and took it by himself.

Walking around the barracks, he was aware of the situation. Chidan and Ganglan's last stop was just around the corner. He knew that the deployment must be thorough, and only when the time came.

No matter how childish he looks, but after three years of bloodbath on the battlefield, General Kikumaru is not just playing on paper, he is a little sensitive and natural, and besides, he is here to help, not to make trouble, although it is indeed an addition to Fuji It's a little unexpected, but it's true that General Kikumaru killed countless enemies on the battlefield.

When Beibang was defeated, he proposed to go to Ganglan. Although Tezuka agreed, he always said that he should not be careless, and kept waiting until the situation stabilized, and the military order was issued.I haven't seen Bu Er for a long time, and then I heard Gan said that he was not in good health, and heard that he was poisoned by Kirihara, all kinds of messes, and he became more and more impatient, and finally sneaked away, day and night, and finally caught up with the battle between Chidan and Ganglan Before reaching Ganglan, he naturally had to contribute.

So he will be more quiet, and when Buer gives an order, he will bear the brunt and charge forward.He vowed to take Chidan to the death.So that Fuji can feel at ease.

He once heard Kirihara talk about Chidan's coach, a guy who bothered Fuji, he thought he would beat him up, ask him to apologize to Fuji, and never allow him to appear in front of Fuji again.

Thinking of this, he became more and more excited, and couldn't fall asleep anymore. He simply got out of bed and quietly went to Buer's study. Fell asleep.

He walked over gently, took off the shawl and covered him, sat beside him, propped his chin with one hand, and watched, his eyelids gradually became heavy.Just when it was about to close, there was a gust of wind, and someone walked in. He looked vigilantly, but it was moving forward.

When he saw him, Yueqian seemed to be taken aback, but ignored him, and walked straight past him, Da Heng picked up Fuji, walked out, and when he was almost at the door, he turned around and nodded to him, his lips parted. Hema seemed to be saying, "Senior Kikumaru, go to bed too," and stepped out, with the skillful movements that seemed to be a trivial matter.

He kept staring at the door they left, until his eyes were blurred and he could no longer see clearly, then he stood up, maybe he sat for too long, walked unsteadily, and walked for a long time before returning to the room, he Once soft, fell up.I don't know if I fell asleep in the end or not, but the next day my eyelids seemed heavy and I was so tired.

Not afraid that he would not get used to it, or that he was not acclimatized to the environment, he boiled tonic for him.

Echizen was away during the day and didn't come back until evening, and he brought back a few people from other races, and they talked for a long time in the study, after listening to him, he was really tired, so he withdrew first.

In the next few days, although the surface was quiet as usual, the defenders mobilized a lot.

He knew the future of the war, so he took the initiative to invite Ying.No two scheduling is orderly, and people make the best use of them.

Soon, the preparations were completed, and one hundred thousand soldiers drank the blood wine, and their voices shook the sky.That battle was fought heartily and vividly, and it was extremely enjoyable.That battle completely drove Chidan out of Ganglan.

After that, Chidan sent a peace envoy, expressing his surrender, willing to offer cattle, sheep and jewelry every year, and profess his minister to Qianli.However, there was one condition, they had to personally interview Senryukuni Lord Yukimura Seiichi.

Buer refused.

He broke into Chidan's barracks alone, and when he came back, he brought Chidan's letter of surrender.No one knows exactly what happened.

Kikumaru pestered Fuji to ask questions in private, and Fuji said, "Hey, given Chidan's current situation, does Eiji think that they are still qualified to negotiate terms? What's more, it was just a misunderstanding, so it would be nice to make it clear. In fact, Yushi It's not really unreasonable."

Fuji thought he had spoken clearly, but Kikumaru couldn't understand it anyway, his head was scratching his head, and he couldn't think of an answer.He ran to ask Echizen, and Echizen gave an even simpler answer: "Senior Fuji has made it very clear, but Senpai Kikumaru is still far behind."

He was so angry that he almost jumped over the wall, but Bu Er carried him back.

Half a month later, news came from Qieyuan that Northwest had won a great victory over Agou, and Agou had proclaimed his vassal.

Three years of war ended.Beibang, Chidan, and Agou surrendered one after another.Qianli's national strength is better than before.

It's just three years of war, and a lot of waste is waiting to be done.

He also stayed in Ganglan.Compared with Longchuan, Ganglan's winter is not as cold. It doesn't even snow, and only drizzles for a day or two.He was full of energy and couldn't stay idle, but he undertook a lot of errands, helped Buer collect and convey a lot of news, and made remarkable contributions to the implementation of the post-war New Deal.

At the end of the new year, the imperial court issued a comprehensive award to all the wartime meritorious soldiers, which added a bit of glory and excitement to the New Year.

After the resumption of spring after the year, Fuji promoted many talents, and Echizen said that it was time to leave.After thinking about it carefully, he realized that for Fuji, these three years were forced by the situation and he had to do it as a last resort. Now that the situation has been fixed, the remaining temple political affairs are really bound to him, and he should leave early. It's also a good thing.

He has always been trustworthy and supportive, not to mention that he himself is not suitable for the officialdom, so if he wants to leave him, he naturally agrees with both hands.

It's just that I don't know what to do. If he used to be like a baby, he would follow Fuji without hesitation. However, he has seen many things he didn't know before, such as the intimacy and tacit understanding between Echizen and Fuji, and the fact that Echizen was older than him. Staying with each other, such as Bu Er's lingering eyes and dependence other than pampering, such as jokes and whispers that he can't get in.

He saw it clearly, and he had to admit that he had missed it all these years, and someone lived in that person's heart earlier than him.

Although that person treats him the same, with the same pampering and love, but it is different, compared with the other person, it is too obvious, even he can easily detect it.

Sometimes he would be so wronged that he couldn't help cursing, damn it, he couldn't even say it, it's so annoying!

However, after scolding, he still smiled brightly, clinging to that person and not letting go, calling him sweetly: "Meow, no two, no two~"

The man returned a doting smile and called him softly: "Hey, Eiji."

He felt as if he had stolen honey, a small satisfaction.And turn a blind eye to the other person's gaze, or simply go up to him and bend that person to hook his neck, so that the person can't kick him anymore, and tell him to stop impatiently, senior.He smiled even brighter, and said carelessly, "Meow, you are so stingy, you are not cute at all meow." He repeated it day by day, getting smaller every day. If he is childish, Buer will spoil him even more, and if he teases him, he will act stupid all the way.

It was easy for him to play dumb.

It's just that more and more, Echizen would look at him with strange eyes. Although it was just an indifferent glance, he, who knew Echizen well, saw a change in his eyes, first hostile, and then slowly turned into sympathy.

He sighed in his heart, it turns out that the little one is really as sensitive as what Fuji said.After sighing, I laughed at myself. It turned out to be obvious, but I just didn't want to admit it.

From the very beginning, Buer identified him, so he will not change later, and he is unwilling to change again. Buer is really such a person, treat him as a younger brother, protect him for a lifetime, and pamper him for the rest of his life. , and nothing else.

He suddenly thought of Tezuka, that powerful and icy emperor, whose expression slowed down under Fuji's teasing, and who had been away from Fuji for three years but never smiled. When I wrote the letter and handed it over to Kirihara, I kept silent, and in the end, I only left one sentence forever. Don't be careless.

However, only at that time, according to the dry words, there is a [-]% probability that Tezuka's expression is worried, and there is an [-]% probability that he wants to see Fuji, and there is a [-]% probability that he is inseparable from Fuji than anyone else.

At that time, Tezuka uncharacteristically didn't punish him for running up the mountain, but just turned around and walked into the tent.

Kikumaru's vision blurred more than once when he saw that figure from behind, and he felt the same way.He once proposed to go to Okaran when Longchuan was stable, and Tezuka yelled at Tezuka as if to vent when he told him to wait. At that time, Tezuka didn't punish him, but just let him back out very tired.

Now that I think about it, I realized that Tezuka must have envied him, envied him for being self-willed and traveling thousands of miles.

So he couldn't imagine if he would feel more uncomfortable than him if he saw Fuji and Echizen's current appearance.

He couldn't imagine how to bear it more uncomfortable than him, because now, he couldn't bear it anymore.

The wooden bed shook and creaked, and he turned over, facing out of the window. Through the paper window, he could vaguely see the crescent moon, which was slowly covered by black clouds at the moment, and was blown away by the wind after a while. , the crescent moon gradually became bright and clear again, but there was not a single star in the vast sky.

He suddenly felt cold, and pulled the quilt, only to realize that the quilt had fallen to the ground at some point. Clinging tightly, my heart was suddenly in a mess, and I pulled the quilt to cover myself completely.

The moonlight of Yuebai shines on the quilt through the paper window of Yuebai, and only the curled figure can be vaguely seen trembling.

Outside the window, the warm yellow sun gradually rose.

At the end of spring, a rumor spread that a martial arts competition would be held in the imperial capital in early autumn. The martial arts competition would be held every five years, and the rules would be changed slightly. They could challenge without limit, and finally stood in the martial arts competition. On the stage is Emperor Wu, and the sect he belongs to is the first sect.It is no longer mandatory to report to the sect on the first day of the martial arts meeting.

Two days later, invitations from the Martial Arts Association, as well as letters from Qingmen and other sects came one after another.After the agreement, several people decided to set off in early summer, but on the eve of departure, an unexpected visitor came to the handsome mansion.

Ju Wan had only seen it briefly on the battlefield, but didn't recognize him. He heard from his attendants that he was Chidan's commander and military adviser, and that the military adviser had been to the commander's mansion.

Kikumaru hated Chidan's commander, and when he heard that he was the right person, he jumped in front of him as if his hair had exploded, and he couldn't help but punch him, scolding as he hit him: "Well, you Chidan lackey, you hurt me!" Not to mention that Fuji is so miserable, you still dare to come to my uncle Kikumaru's territory to see if I don't kill you to avenge Fuji!"

Ninjuzu jittered, and quickly backed away, Tuliu Renwang couldn't escape, so he had to avoid it while thinking, and was a little embarrassed by Kikumaru, while he was thinking, he saw Buer come out from the corner of his eyes, and he was with Ninja at the moment Standing, looking at them with a smile, his heart turned, he jumped two steps away, turned around and changed into Buer, his figure and face were exactly the same as Buer, with only those crooked smiling eyes , Seeing a bit strange, Kikumaru had no time to argue and had no time to stop, so he rushed straight up, King Ni was startled, the two of them fell down together, and fell heavily to the ground.

Kikumaru was so thrown that his bones were about to crack, and his mouth was in pain, so he quickly went to help him, but he jumped again in fright, and after several glances from a distance, he dared to approach Fuer shyly, pointing at him. King Ni, pretending to be the best, scolded: "Well, you red dog, you actually played with Uncle Kikumaru. If you have the ability, let's beat it upright."

King Ni was dizzy from being thrown, saw Kikumaru being supported by Fuji, but no one was helping him, and looked at Fuji sadly. The latter was smiling brightly, so he resigned himself to getting up and dusted Dust off his body, and ignored Kikumaru's provocation, but from the perspective of Fuji, the orange cat was so angry that he couldn't provoke it anymore, so he said slowly: "I was originally a fraudster. .” Barely counted as submissive.

Kikumaru became even angrier when he heard that, remembering that Kirihara said that Nioh pretended to be a part of the family and harmed Fuji, he immediately became furious, rolled up his sleeves and was about to rush forward.

Although it was very interesting to watch from the side, Fujikumaru felt a bit distressed due to Kikumaru's sluggishness these days, so he stopped, and now he signaled that King Nio had changed back to his original state, and comforted Kikumaru: "Hey, Eiji misunderstood, None of his business."

King Ren was grateful, and secretly gave Buer a thumbs up, but Buer paused, and said, "Because I knew early on that he was not Xiaojing, and I was just teasing him." Suddenly frustrated I went away in a daze.

Seeing his appearance, Kikumaru was doubtful about Fuji's words, but he smiled triumphantly and gave him a provocative white look.

Only then did the courtyard quiet down, and several people sat separately.

Birch set up the stove and pot for making tea, and Kuchi brought out pastries and cups, and sat down next to Fuji.Ignoring Kikumaru's vicious gaze at Nioh, the few of them chatted happily.Especially Renzu and Fuji, they don't look like enemies who used to face each other on the battlefield. Instead, they look like close friends who haven't seen each other for several years. There seems to be sparks in their conversations, which makes people jealous.

Ju Wan felt unhappy, and cast his vicious eyes on him again, King Ren was relieved when he saw this, gloated and drank the tea that Bu Er had made, not polite at all.But he didn't expect Kikumaru's fiery gaze to move over again in the next moment, he spread his hands and called out helplessly, and he still flirted with Shinobu as if he hadn't heard of it.

Added another setback in my heart.

Fortunately, Kikumaru lost his mind, and lay down on the table sleepily, but he didn't give up, so he poked Echizen with his hand, and Echizen ignored him, only occasionally when he was complacent, he seemed unintentional but sharply indifferent Adding a sentence, Ren Zu was so choked that his brows twitched, and he sat up straight again excitedly, laughing loudly.

When it was almost dusk, Echizen didn't know what he said, and he said he was going to leave. The movement when they got up made Kikumaru wake up, but he was still lying on his stomach.

Fuji sent the two of them away for a few steps, and Kikumaru suddenly heard Shinozu say in a low voice, "I'm sorry Fuji, you're right, Xiao Jing would not approve of my actions like that, I was really dazzled by hatred ."some type of.

He listened carefully again, and said with restraint: "But Fuji, remember what you promised, if I see Yukimura and find that he deserves to die, I will definitely kill him."

Buer didn't say anything, just hummed heavily, and the two of them said their goodbyes.

Xu Shi put his ears on the stone table, he could hear every sound in the courtyard clearly, and he also heard King Ren's deep short sigh between his mouth, and then he waved his hands, but turned around without saying a word. gone.

In the early summer, when he set off for the imperial capital, Kikumaru, he didn't see Nioh. Hearing that Ninzu said that he had gone to Yunyou, Kikumaru felt a little regretful in private. He actually wanted to see the Atobe where Nioh transformed. Now it seems that the opportunity was missed.

After the two left that day, Kikumaru learned a little more about Fuji and Atobe, Atobe and Shinobu, Shinozu and Nioh, Nioh and Fuji.

To put it simply, Shinobu and Atobe are childhood sweethearts, so they are close to Fuji. However, after Atobe's death, the two lost contact, and when they met again, they faced each other on the battlefield.Renzu already knew about Fuji's whereabouts, he hated Fuji, and Fuji did not avenge him when Atobe died.In between, he got to know Renwang, and the Renwang family was also the victim of Yukimura's ascension to the throne. The two walked between Chidan, Agou, and Beibang, and started a war just to avenge the bloody sea of ​​blood. However, the three clans were defeated. nothing at all.

Fuji and Shinozu had a long talk all night, and finally reached an agreement. One day Fuji will bring Shinozu to meet Yukimura, and then Shinozu will judge whether Yukimura should be killed or not, and Fuji will not interfere at that time.He thought, even after all that, Fuji still trusts Yukimura.

As for Nioh, Kikumaru was more sympathetic, he suddenly found it funny, how could his sympathy for Nioh be so similar to Echizen's sympathy for him?

No, actually he is not eligible.

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I feel very complicated today, and I can't see hope.

It's really hard.

Well, what should I do?