as old as ever

"What are you doing?"

Bai Zhuo was watching, Zhang Jingchu and Su Jinnian were here, they looked up at each other without speaking.

Hearing the sound, Su Jinnian's eyes paused, Bai Zhuo stepped forward and looked at the chess on the table,

"Are you playing chess? Then who wins?"

"I lost." Su Jinnian replied flatly.

"You also have a day to meet your opponent. Who is this one who doesn't know who you are?" Bai Zhuo looked at Zhang Jingchu carefully, with an extraordinary demeanor. Those who can play chess with Xiao Chichi should not be ordinary people.

Zhang Jingchu got up: "Next Zhang Jingchu is the commander of Qingping Town."

"So you are Zhang Jingchu!" Bai Zhuo suddenly realized, and immediately walked up to Zhang Jingchu, turning around Zhang Jingchu, looking up, down, left, and right.He was really curious about what kind of person could make Xiao Chichi change. Apart from having a good-looking face, there was nothing special about it.

Seeing him like this, Su Jinnian held his forehead angrily. He really wanted to say that I don't know this person, how embarrassing!

"What are you doing? Have you seen enough?" Su Jinnian really couldn't bear his appearance.

"Why can't I see it?"

Turning his head, he cast a blank glance at Su Jinnian who was sitting, and then turned around and gave a friendly smile. "My name is Bai Zhuo, and I'm Su Jinnian's friend. I can always hear Jinnian mentioning you."

"Really? Does he often mention me?" Hearing that Su Jinnian always mentioned himself, Zhang Jingchu was very happy and looked at Su Jinnian.

"Of course, I just made a joke about you with him, and he got angry with me. I've known him for a long time, and it's the first time he's like this."

"Have you said enough? Can you shut up?" Hearing Bai Zhuo's words, Su Jinnian couldn't help being upset, so he told Bai Zhuo to shut up.

"Commander Zhang, look at him with such eyes." Bai Zhuo didn't think it was a big deal, and dared to ask Zhang Jingchu to take a look.

"Okay, I won't bother you two here to play chess in peace." He seemed to be able to see the blazing anger in Su Jinnian's eyes, but fortunately, he quickly slipped away before he had an attack.Leave after speaking.

Zhang Jingchu looked at Bai Zhuo, and thought that Su Jinnian's friend was very funny!

"This guy is really annoying," Su Jinnian took out a plum blossom fan from his clothes, and fanned it to dissipate his anger.

"Let's continue playing chess!" Seeing how angry Zhang Jingchu was, he thought about playing chess to divert his attention.

"Then this game is not considered inferior,"

In the next round, he will definitely lose, so it is better to play again. Although he met such a rare and good opponent as Zhang Jingchu, he doesn't want to lose, after all, he has never lost in the past thousand years.Face is still important.This round is void, and he doesn't believe that Zhang Jingchu can win him again.

This is obviously regrettable chess, but Zhang Jingchu doesn't care. He thinks that as long as Su Jinnian is happy, he will respond to any request from Su Jinnian. Allowing passage is warlord control, but with just one word from Su Jinnian, he gave up the pier to him, even his own life.As long as Su Jinnian is happy, he can give up his life.

"Okay, this move doesn't count, let's start over."

But Su Jinnian didn't win any of the incoming chess games, but he could feel that Zhang Jingchu had deliberately let him go, letting him go,

In order not to hurt his self-esteem, he had to do it a little bit, and then planned to make it difficult for him to see that he deliberately released water.In order to make Su Jinnian happy, he can be said to have worked hard.

Seeing the setting sun, the sun sets early in this season and it gets dark quickly. The maids light up the lamps in the Huxinting,

Pa, Su Jinnian closed the folding fan in his hand, tapped on the table, then pointed at the little maid beside him,

"You guys clean up here, and then go prepare some food and drink! Send it here,"

"What's the matter? Can't get down?"

"I'm a little tired, I can't take it anymore." Su Jinnian stood up and stretched, then rubbed her neck and squeezed her shoulders a few times,

"Tired? Sore neck?" Sit down!

Zhang Jingchu came behind him, and I will press your shoulders to relieve your fatigue." The two of them sat from the afternoon to the evening without moving. Anyone would have a sore neck and shoulders, so Zhang Jingchu motioned him to sit down.

"Farewell, you press my shoulders for fear of being seen, it's not decent! Forget it." But Zhang Jingchu pressed his shoulders and forced him to sit down, "Why are there so many troublesome rules? Second brother, what can I do if I treat you better?

After all, Zhang Jingchu couldn't be said, Su Jinnian sat down, Zhang Jingchu pressed his shoulders, the strength was not strong, but it was very comfortable,

"You, aren't your shoulders sore?" Su Jinnian said to Zhang Jingchu behind him.

"I'm used to it. I don't feel sore. Let alone sitting in the barracks for a few hours, it's okay to stand under the scorching sun for a day and a night." Yes, the hard times before are hard to think about.But if he hadn't suffered before, he wouldn't be the Zhang Jingchu he is now!

"It seems that being a soldier is also very hard! What about your parents? Are they willing to let you suffer as a soldier?"

The words came out of my mouth, but it was only after I said them that Su Jinnian remembered that Zhang Jingchu didn't have parents, but he couldn't take them back after he said them.

Zhang Jingchu was startled suddenly, and the movements of his hands stopped.Saddened, he didn't expect Su Jinnian to ask this question suddenly.

"Are you okay, don't pay attention to what I just said, just pretend you didn't hear it!" But Zhang Jingchu forced a smile and said, "My parents are long gone, and they won't know about my enlistment in the army. So no one feels sorry for me."

"Since being a soldier is so tiring, why do you still have to go to the military camp?" Su Jinnian really couldn't understand why Zhang Jingchu had to go to the military camp with his ability?Even if he is not a commander, he can do other things with his ability, and he can still go smoothly.And it's easy, you don't have to shed your blood on the battlefield.

"I am also desperate. There is nowhere to go except the military camp. Besides, the military camp is full of food." Zhang Jingchu said calmly. In fact, the reason why he went to the military camp was for other reasons.Only when you become a commander or an officer can you hold your head high.

After a while, the maids brought the food and wine to the table.

"Okay, you sit down and rest to eat!"

Thinking that Zhang Jingchu is an imposing commander but often lowers his status to coax him, Zhang Jingchu listens to himself very much, no matter what he is asked to do, he will do it.Sometimes I really don't want to use him, but I have to.As long as he has another helper, he may not need to do it himself if he wants to deal with Master Qiao.

"I ordered someone to bring this blue-and-white wine, you must taste it carefully," picked up the jug, which was different from the usual one made of Hetian jade, and the high-quality Hetian jade was used to make the jug.What a luxurious life, engraved with dragons, flying phoenixes and dances, not only this Hetian jade, but the effort of this depiction is worth a lot of money.The Su family is a well-known family. In Qingping Town, they are very wealthy, and Su Jinnian himself is also extremely wealthy.Food and clothing are all the best, for Su Jinnian alone, the cost of a casual piece of clothing is enough for ordinary people to spend half their lives.

Zhang Jingchu seemed to be sitting opposite, picked up the flagon to a glass of wine, and drank directly.The aroma of the wine is clear and mellow, with a faint floral fragrance, and it is extremely refreshing on the palate, not as strong as ordinary wines. This is the reason why good wines are not top-notch.

"Sure enough, it's fine wine and jade dew, good wine!"

Zhang Jingchu licked her thin lips and said.Unexpectedly, Su Jinnian likes to drink.

Chapter: ☆, Chapter 25

"Second brother, do you like dragons very much?"

Zhang Jingchu just saw the small word "Dragon" printed on the bottom of Su Jinnian's peach blossom fan.If he hadn't looked at things carefully, most people really wouldn't have noticed.The font is too small to be read.

"Where do you know that I like the dragon?"

He did like dragons, but he never told anyone about it.Where did Zhang Jingchu see it?

"Last time, my second brother was wearing a red gown. The whole right sleeve was embroidered with a dragon winding from top to bottom. It was like a mayfly on your arm. This time the clothes you wore were also embroidered with dragons. I saw you again just now. There is a dragon seal on the folding fan. It shows that you like dragons more." Zhang Jingchu paid close attention to Su Jinnian, and Zhang Jingchu deliberately found out about his preferences.

Su Jinnian is wearing a dark purple gown today, with a dragon embroidered with red silk thread on the right end. The dragon swoops down from the back over the shoulders. The whole dragon is red without any other colors. It is like a bloody battle. After listening Only then did Zhang Jingchu realize that he was so careful.

"Indeed, I like dragons very much," Su Jinnian admitted,

"The dragon is the king of all beasts. In ancient times, it represented royal power and aristocrats, implying peace. Many people like it."

Zhang Jingchu explained to Su Jinnian that he had read many books, and there were many kinds of introductions about dragons, but most of them introduced some meanings of dragons.

"Hahaha, what a king of all beasts, Zhang Jingchu, I respect you with this glass." Su Jinnian raised his glass and drank it down. He didn't expect that there were so many records about dragons in later generations.

"Indeed, I like dragons very much," Su Jinnian admitted,

"Today we won't go home until we're drunk," Zhang Jingchu picked up the jug and drank three cups in succession. The two drank while talking. Zhang Jingchu drank a lot of wine, and Su Jinnian asked people to bring all the blue and white wine to the pavilion. It's a bit late now He simply told all the servants in the mansion to go to rest, so there was no need to wait.

The night is quiet, the night sky has a few stars,

Zhang Jingchu picked up the jug on the table and poured it directly into his mouth. The wine slid from his chin to his neck, soaking his shirt. He unbuttoned a few buttons on the top of his shirt, revealing his delicate collarbone, and the wine slid across his collarbone Right up to his chest, Zhang Jingchu boldly wiped the wine from his mouth with his cuff. Zhang Jingchu drank several jugs of wine. Although the blue and white wine was not strong alcohol, it couldn't hold him back. He looked like he was probably drunk.

"Zhang Jingchu, stop drinking, you're drunk."

"I'm not drunk, I'm more sober now than ever."He didn't listen to Su Jinnian's dissuasion and continued to drink,

Seeing his gaffe, Su Jinnian went directly to him and took the flagon from his hand, then put it heavily on the table,

Zhang Jingchu got up immediately, drank too much wine, his body was unstable, swaying, his hands were touching Su Jinnian's shoulders, his head was slightly lowered, Zhang Jingchu was taller than Su Jinnian, there was a height difference between the two standing together Yes, it will always be Zhang Jingchu who lowers his head and looks into Su Jinnian's eyes,

"Su Jinnian, I ask a question, you must answer me seriously." Zhang Jingchu's eyes were unusually serious,

"what is the problem?"

"I ask you, do you have me in your heart?"

When the question came out, Su Jinnian didn't know how to answer him?I thought to myself, what kind of strange problem is this?

"No, I know the answer to this question, and this question doesn't count," Zhang Jingchu waved his hands, drunk.

"You know? What do you know?" Even he himself didn't know, so how could Zhang Jingchu know?

"That's the answer I traded my life for! You don't remember being in the back garden. I bet you with my life. If you have the heart, I will definitely not hurt my life. In the end, I won."

No wonder he opened his mouth that day and said, I won. He didn't understand at that time, but now he finally knows what he won. "Are you sure you will win? What if I really want to kill you?"

"I'm not sure, but I really want to know the answer. If you want to kill me, I'm willing to sacrifice my life with both hands. I will never resist. As long as you are happy."

After hearing the answer, Su Jinnian's eyes trembled. He didn't dare to look into Zhang Jingchu's eyes. Those eyes were full of sincerity and mixed with other emotions.

"Zhang Jingchu, why are you so stupid? Why? Why?"

He bowed his head and murmured softly, he was completely at a loss, for some reason, after hearing Zhang Jingchu's words, he felt a little uncomfortable, it was the first time he met such a stupid person.

Seeing him like this, Zhang Jingchu couldn't help stroking his face,

"Don't do this, I'm fine. Because it's you, Zhang Jingchu is willing to be stupid."

Su Jinnian raised her face,

"You're such a stupid big guy who only grows tall but doesn't grow brains."

"I only have one question now, do you want to stay with me forever"?

Zhang Jingchu looked at Su Jinnian carefully, this was what Zhang Jingchu really wanted, even if Su Jinnian didn't have him in his heart, it didn't matter, as long as Su Jinnian could stay by his side.

Su Jinnian couldn't answer, opened his mouth but couldn't speak,

"Please stay by my side, okay? Please? Okay, as long as you stay by my side, I will protect you forever, and I will do my best to treat you well. Answer me!"

Su Jinnian wanted to say bad things at first, but he said those heartless words in his eyes, he couldn't bear to hurt him anymore.

"Brother, please, don't leave me, okay, as long as you stay by my side forever as my second brother, I can do whatever you want me to do."

It was the first time he saw Zhang Jingchu who was so humble and begging others. In the past, even though he was different in height, he was never like this. When he looked into Zhang Jingchu's eyes, there was calmness in those eyes, arrogance and loneliness , gentle as water, but not as cautious as today, with hurt eyes and extremely insecure.

"Okay, I promise you, I will be your second brother forever."

Hearing the answer, Zhang Jingchu was taken aback for a moment, then showed a big smile and hugged Su Jinnian.She hugged him tightly, afraid that this was a dream, and also afraid that Su Jinnian would regret it,

He suddenly remembered something and let go. Su Jinnian was full of worry, "You don't think I'm the lone star of the devil, do you? See how selfish I am. I know that I will harm you, but I still insist on keeping you in the house." By my side. So selfish, always so selfish."

"Why do you trust other people so much?"

He knew in his heart that since he met the fortune teller, he had been acting strangely. Although he played chess with him, he still didn't forget the flowers that person said.

"No, that person is right. I am the lone star of the devil, and I will kill everyone. In fact, my parents are not dead, but they don't want them, because I have killed many people,"

Zhang Jingchu let go of Su Jinnian, put down his hands and muttered to himself, and stepped back step by step, his eyes turned around anxiously.

"you?"

He didn't expect Zhang Jingchu to be abandoned by his parents, no wonder his character has always been like this.He was really desperate when he went to the military camp, and he was forced to do nothing.

"You are the lone star of Tiansha, so what am I? Those are all lies. If it is true, how did you meet me? We are still sworn brothers?"

Chapter: ☆, Chapter 26

Hearing Su Jinnian's comfort, Zhang Jingchu looked up at Su Jinnian and said, "I will never let anything happen to you. You are right, I am not a lone star. I can't just accept my fate like this."

"It's much better if you think this way. Think about it, you are Zhang Jingchu, Commander Zhang! How many people envy you."

Even Lu Zhen, who has been with him for many years, didn't know about his parents, but today he told Su Jinnian that he was not wary of Su Jinnian, and Su Jinnian never thought that Zhang Jingchu, in the eyes of outsiders, was majestic , Zhang Jingchu, who looks hard and indifferent.It turns out that his heart is more fragile than ordinary people. No one can accept being abandoned by his biological parents. You don't need to think about the past days to know what kind of hard life he lived.

"Do you like to listen to opera? I will personally sing for you today"

"Oh? You can still sing opera? He knew that Zhang Jingchu liked to listen to operas, and he often went to opera gardens, but he didn't know he could sing. No wonder the owner of the theater said that he had unique insights into operas, and someone else sang an opera line wrong. , he can hear it. It turns out that he can sing.

"Of course, I'll sing you a song I'm good at." After speaking, Zhang Jingchu snatched the plum blossom fan from Su Jinnian's hand.Cleverly holding it in his hand, he took away the wine jug on the table, walked to the front of the pavilion with a swaying body, faced Su Jinnian with unsteady steps, and stood there,

"Stop singing, you are a dignified Commander Zhang. If someone spreads the opera for me, it won't make the people laugh. What is your majesty? Su Jin wanted to step forward to support him, but just stood up and opened his legs. Zhang Jingchu was alone." The gesture made him back up, and he said in a cold voice:

"Sit down! Majesty is nothing, you don't care about face! Listen carefully, I can sing opera better than others," after speaking, he opened the folding fan and lingered between his eyebrows and eyes. face to drink.It really does seem like a thing.

"The ice wheel on the island is turning, seeing the jade rabbit..."

When Zhang Jingchu opened his voice, Su Jinnian was really shocked.He had listened to a lot of operas and knew that it was a drunken imperial concubine. Although he had heard many operas, Zhang Jingchu only realized that the operas he had heard before, such as Huadan and Xiaosheng, were incomparable to Zhang Jingchu.

He raised his fingers slightly, and the words were full of charm. It was hard for him to imagine that Zhang Jingchu's voice was like Yingli, which really didn't match his image. Maybe Zhang Jingchu drank too much alcohol, singing that the drunken concubine really matched her, The slightly drunk and blurred eyes made the character of Concubine Yang Guifei vividly portrayed.

He gestured with some drunkenness, he caressed the folding fan and sang the opera, his eyes were filled with Yang Guifei's sorrow, loneliness and waiting, she often heard people say that opera singers would bring the small movements in the opera to life, but he Have you ever seen Zhang Jingchu do any tricks?Zhang Jingchu took the fan away and directly raised the wine pot and sang with her head up. She looked so natural and unrestrained and casual, it was truly peerless and not an exaggeration.

Su Jinnian's Beijing-style libretto played back and forth in his ears. He felt that Zhang Jingchu seemed to be proficient in everything. There was nothing in this world that she didn't know. He had heard many famous operas before, but they were not as good as Zhang Jingchu.

Perhaps Zhang Jingchu was a little dizzy, he shook his head trying to wake up, seeing that Naihe drank a little too much, his hair was dizzy, his body was unsteady, he stepped back, almost fell down, and suddenly he leaned against his back lightly pillars of the pavilion.But he didn't forget to sing opera.Covering the right half of his face with a plum blossom fan in his hand, Zhang Jingchu felt dizzy and a little nauseous. He punched his temple lightly with his hand in the shape of an empty fist. He turned around immediately, pointed at the railing of the lotus pavilion, bent his body and lowered his head slightly, gasping for breath,

"Zhang Jingchu, what's wrong with you? Let's do it! Stop singing"

He noticed Zhang Jingchu's physical discomfort, Zhang Jingchu turned his head and smiled, his eyes were like Wang Qingquan, "Don't worry, I'm fine. Just take a breath." Zhang Jingchu leaned half of her body out. Originally, the height of the railing was too high for Su Jinnian reached the base of his thigh, but for Zhang Jingchu, who was tall and slender, the railing was just above his knees.

He looked at the water in the lake and looked at the blood-red lotus. He felt that the lotus was as red as blood, as if it was dripping blood all the time. Zhang Jingchu couldn't help lowering his head, trying to see the lotus clearly.As soon as he bent down, all the red carps in the pavilion in the middle of the lake gathered around Zhang Jingchu. , I haven’t seen so many red carp just now, and after a while, the whole pond is full of red carp, all swimming back and forth on the water surface, groups of red carp,

"Second brother, your carp looks good! It's almost as big as my palm."

The red koi seemed to be very excited, and would jump out of the water from time to time.

"Second brother? Have you not fed your carp for a long time? Ordinary red koi will not be so excited. They will come forward when they see people. They are not afraid of people.

Su Jinnian looked at him, "Zhang Jingchu, stop looking, come and chat with me."

Through the moonlight, it seems that the whole pond is reflected red, plus the red lotus that is full of the pond.He suddenly saw that the water in the pond was dyed red and scattered little by little.Then it turned into blood completely, and the petals of the lotus flower dripped blood.The pool was full of blood, but the red carp was still swimming in it. Zhang Jingchu's pupils shrank in fright, and he forgot to breathe. He rubbed his eyes and saw that everything was normal, without any blood.He gasped for breath, it seemed that he really drank too much and was hallucinating.

"Zhang Jingchu, that's dangerous!"

Only then did Su Jinnian pay attention to him, and shouted sharply.But Zhang Jingchu seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit and refused to listen to Su Jinnian.As if the lotus flower had a huge attraction, he leaned out his whole body, reaching out to catch fish, Su Jinnian ran a few steps, but it was too late, Zhang Jingchu thumped, and fell headfirst into the pond.