Thought

As soon as they said they would leave, Xue Yi and Mu Nian simply packed up their luggage, and they left the capital and returned to Qingzhou one after another.On the first day back to Qingzhou, the two of them brought the prepared joss paper money to Mu Mu's tomb.

Mu Nian knelt on the cold ground, and put the paper money into the brazier one by one, silent.Xue Yi watched from a distance, but did not approach.

Xue Yi thought that Mu Nian would kneel for a while, and was thinking about how to persuade Mu Nian to go home with him, when he saw Mu Nian standing up stiffly, and walked towards him after a short pause.

Facing Xue Yi's slightly surprised gaze, Mu Nian smiled relievedly, "The relationship between my parents has always been very good. If it wasn't for taking care of me, she would have wanted to go with my father even more!"

"I was wrong before. I ruined myself like this, and I am ashamed of my mother who saved me." Mu Nian walked to Xue Yi's side. He was wrong before. If mother didn't protect him, it would be If you don't, you won't die.

So even though I want to take good care of my body, I don't have the thought of letting go.He actually doesn't care, he doesn't care how long he can live.

Xue Yi nodded, "It's good that you can think like this."

The two walked side by side, and Mu Nian, who was thinking about it, calmly talked about the gangsters that day, "At that time, the knife should have been aimed at me. My mother was weak, and I didn't know where the strength came from at the time. I blocked a knife through the chest in front of me."

"Later, your men appeared and drove off the bandits." Mu Nian turned his head and looked at Xue Yi with a smile in his eyes, "Do you think it looks like it?"

Xue Yi looked at Mu Nian's eyes dull for a moment, and felt a sudden thump in the heart, "What does it look like?"

"It's as if my father saved my mother, and you also saved me." Mu Nian stopped and looked at Xue Yi, with squinted eyes, "What a coincidence."

Xue Yi forced himself to nod, his heart beating "thump-thump-thump" in his chest.

"It's a pity that we are all men." Mu Nian shook his head, "Otherwise we might be like my parents. I like you, the hero who saved the beauty, and you pity me who lost my family."

Xue Yi's beating heart was instantly poured with a basin of cold water, and he calmed down a lot.

This was like a roller coaster experience, which made Xue Yi take a step behind Mu Nian, and couldn't bear it, clutching his chest, excited.

Mu Nian, who was walking in front, didn't see Xue Yi's strange behavior. He cautiously probed, and quickly retracted the small tentacles.

Although he was still timid at this time, he knew that he had embarked on a brand new path. The feeling of breaking away from the established destiny made Mu Nian feel indescribably happy and relaxed.

Even looking at the dry roadside, bare yellow-brown ground, I feel very happy.

Xue Yi was keenly aware of the changes in Mu Nian. When he got up from the tomb, Mu Nian was different from before.Seeing the former Mu Nian, he seemed to see himself in the previous life.

In every world there are always some strange things that cannot be solved by science, as well as dark corners.As an experimental subject, he had no chance to refuse, nor could he.

So even though the illegal laboratory was strangled, people like him could not return to society.So he became a sharp knife of the country, who could not be seen or seen.He has no identity of his own, no name of his own, only a code name that belongs to him but does not belong to him.

Until the knife destroys people to death.

And the moment Mu Nian got up from the tomb, it was different.Xue Yi saw from Mu Nian what he was looking for extravagantly, something he would not have even if he survived in another world.

He is still living in the previous bondage and has not come out.

If it was just curiosity at the beginning, it was curious which road Mu Nian would go.Just looking at it, Mu Nian's attraction to him became stronger.Until today, suddenly turned sour.

Perhaps, he has jumped out of the cage of his previous life, but he just doesn't know it.

Draw the ground as a prison.

The village where Mu Nian lives is surrounded by mountains and rivers. Although it is an inconspicuous hill with no name, it is still lush in summer and does not look too desolate in winter.It's no wonder that Mu Tuo chose such a place for Mu's mother to cultivate her body.

At this time, Mu Nian and Xue Yi were walking in the hill. Mu Nian put his hand into Xue Yi's extended hand, and used his strength to cross the ravine in front of him, "This place is still the same as before, it hasn't changed at all."

"Before my mother died, she told me to live, to live." Mu Nian wiped off the sweat on his cheeks. Although the weather was cold, he couldn't hold back his weakness. "I thought that was her expectation of me, to make me live."

"It's just that Qi Hui and the others always want to find something from me." Mu Nian stood on a relatively flat area, took a breath, and calmed down his rapid breathing, "I just wonder if there is something wrong with my parents. tell me."

"Or told me, but I didn't notice."

Xue Yi put the cloak in his hand on Mu Nian, carefully swept out a stone that was clean from the wind, asked Mu Nian to sit down, and handed over the water bag.

The water in the water bag is just filled with boiling water in the morning, and the current temperature is just right.

Mu Nian took a sip of water, returned the water bag to Xue Yi, and saw Xue Yi take it without wiping it, took a big sip of water, paused for something to say, and watched Xue Yi not look away for a long time.

Seeing Mu Nian looking at him after drinking, Xue Yi wiped his mouth and looked over suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing?" Mu Nian withdrew his gaze with a "shoo", quickly retorted in a flustered manner, and quickly continued what he wanted to say before, "During the few days I stayed in the prison, I repeatedly thought about the relationship between my parents and my parents. remember."

"Suddenly remembered that when I was young, the family of three always liked to go out to play in spring." Mu Nian looked around, "Actually, the scenery here is very beautiful in spring, and everything revives. My mother likes it very much, and it naturally formed a habit."

"Especially there is an old tree on the hill." Mu Nian's eyes showed a bit of nostalgia, "Every time I come to my mother, I always go to see if the old tree is still alive and if it has sprouted."

Saying that, Mu Nian got up, "It's almost time to rest. Let's take two more steps and we will almost arrive." After speaking, Mu Nian turned and walked in the direction just now.

Mu Nian, who turned his back to Xue Yi, breathed a sigh of relief, his cheeks were slightly flushed.It wasn't that Xue Yi hadn't looked at him for a long time before, but for some reason, when Xue Yi stared at him just now, he was always unconsciously shy and urgent.

And what he did just now, although he has done it before, such as delivering him food, but it is not so detailed that he can arrange it for any place.

Putting away the water bag, Xue Yi took a meaningful look at Mu Nian who hurriedly got up and left, but he still couldn't push too hard.

So don't look at some people who appear to be serious and human-looking on the surface, but in fact they are utterly corrupt on the inside, so black that you can't see the bottom.Before I didn't understand, I subconsciously held Mu Nian firmly, but now I understand, I want to boil the frog in warm water until I eat people in my stomach.

As long as Mu Nian gets used to his traces in every inch of time, he is not afraid that Mu Nian will run out of his palm.

The two walked on the hill supporting each other for a quarter of an hour, and finally saw the old tree that Mu Nian was talking about in a corner.A pitch-black tree stump stood there, with fallen leaves piled up all around, vaguely hugging each other, half the height of a person.

Mu Nian stepped over a bulge in front of him and walked up to the tree stump. He stroked the tree stump lightly with his fingers, and the fallen leaves made a "rustling" sound and slowly fell to the ground.

"It's been so many years, I don't know if it will sprout next year." Mu Nian said with a little nostalgia.

Xue Yi approached and passed Mu Nian to see the real appearance of the tree stump.The entire tree stump seemed to be broken from below by external force, and the bevels were uneven.

Looking along the slanted opening, it was a bulge that they stepped over just now.

Xue Yi raised his foot to sweep away the dead branches and leaves on the protrusion, and the old and decayed trunk appeared in front of Xue Yi.

"I heard that a lightning strike in summer struck this old tree, and it was this lightning that attracted my mother here. At that time, the tree broke in half, and there was still flames on the stump.

Xue Yi's eyes turned to the tree stump. The scorched surface and the slightly split trunk seemed to show the horror of the lightning strike at that time, "I'm afraid I won't be able to survive at this level."

"En." Mu Nian nodded, "My father said the same at the time, but my mother thought that she might survive, so she put out the fire on the stump, and always remember to water and fertilize."

"My father always said that she was doing useless work, but she still obeyed." Mu Nian seemed to think of the scene at that time, and his lips curled up. "Unexpectedly, the old tree gave them a surprise in the spring of the second year."

"A tender sprout grew out of the tree stump." As he spoke, Mu Nian beckoned Xue Yi to come over and take a look, "That's right here, a tender sprout grew from here."

Xue Yi walked up to Mu Nian and followed Mu Nian's angle to look at it. Sure enough, through the narrow crack, he saw a small bare and malnourished branch.

Even though he saw it, Xue Yi didn't type up the draft, his face didn't turn red, and he lied when he opened his mouth, and his doubtful tone seemed to be true, "Where is it? I don't seem to have seen it."

"Is there not?" Mu Nian seemed a little puzzled, but the position of the gap is off, so it's normal not to see it for a while.So he tilted his head slightly, gave up some space, and said, "Look this way, it's in the gap in front."

Xue Yi moved his body and got closer and closer to Mu Nian. The original arm distance turned into a punch, but Xue Yi yelled viciously that he still couldn't see.

Mu Nian enthusiastically gave up his seat and pointed Xue Yi to look over, "Haven't you seen it yet?".Mu Nian was slightly taken aback until the warm breath sprayed onto his cheeks,? ? ? , What happened, and immediately the tip of the ear climbed up with a touch of bright red.

"I saw it." Xue Yi said suddenly, turned his head to face Mu Nian, the tip of his nose almost touched, and the warm breath passed between them.

Mu Nian's eyes slowly opened wide...

Xue Yi pinched the tips of Mu Nian's ears unexpectedly, with a low voice, and rubbed his fingers unconsciously, "Why are your ears so red?"

The author has something to say:

Mu Nian, don't you know why my ears are red?old rascal!

Xue Yi, so soft!