【Grain wattle】turbulent flow

In the alley outside the inn, an old man on crutches walked unsteadily.His legs and feet seem to be somewhat inconvenient, and his steps are extremely slow, with one deep step and one shallow step. The gourd on his waist beats the walking stick rhythmically, making a dull clanging sound in line with his steps. Swing back and forth.

In the middle of the night, the wind got stronger, and the gray tiles of the houses on both sides were rattling.Wen Kejiu, who was walking alone, seemed to recognize a slight strangeness in the voice, and suddenly stopped in his steps. Under the cover of his disheveled white hair, a pair of old eyes gleamed coldly.

He only heard him yelling, swung the walking stick in his hand, and slashed back with full strength.

Where the dust is flying, silver light suddenly appears.

Naturally, his crutch failed to hit the ground.Against his wooden crutch was a cold, unique knife in this world.

In the shadow by the wall, Thorn stood tall, frowning at the unremarkable little old man.After a long while, he took the lead to put away the magic knife, and said with a cold snort, "Your doctor is really good at kung fu."

Warming Pot Jiuyi put down his crutches, stroked his goatee, coughed softly and said, "Small tricks are nothing more than a little self-defense for walking in the rivers and lakes. Hero Jing, you followed the old man all the way, but what advice do you have?"

Seeing that the man had already seen that he was following but didn't tell the truth early, but made a sudden attack when he was approaching, Thorn didn't have a good impression of Wenhu Jiuben, and the impression was even worse.

Naturally, there is no one from the Wen family in Lingnan who is easy to get along with, and the person in front of him is even an old fox pretending to be.That person is so naive, he will be used by that family willingly, and get involved in other people's family affairs.

Although Thorn withdrew his sword, his hands were still pressed on the sword at his waist, and the people also gave way.He looked at Wenhu Jiu coldly, and said, "I just want to ask you, what happened half a year ago, Gu...how did my brother get hurt?"

Wenhu Jiulue raised his eyebrows, and said strangely: "You can just ask Daxia Gu for these words, why do you have to chase the old man out?"

Thorn's eyes flickered slightly, and he snorted: "Stop talking nonsense, just say what you are told."

He still doesn't know Gu Yuexuan's temperament, his senior brother seems to be gentle, but sometimes he is very stubborn.Judging from that person's previous behavior and the situation of the conversation with this warm pot nine just now, it must have been concealed from him, and he made up his mind to wipe out the real injury.That being the case, no matter how much he asks, he will not be able to get the result.

The warm pot wandered around for a while, wondering: "This..."

Thorn's eyes turned cold, and the edge of the blade lit up half an inch again. He lowered his voice and said, "Let me tell you, I am not my senior brother, and I will be fooled casually. If you have half a sentence to hide, don't blame me for being rude with the sword in someone's hand." .”

Hearing this threat, the thermos pot Jiuban wiped the sweat on his forehead sincerely, and said submissively: "Hero Jing calm down, the old man just said it. Half a year ago, the old man and a group of other clansmen were attacked by those traitors at home." He injured a leg and almost thought he was going to lose his life. At that critical moment, Gu Daxia broke in alone and rushed out with a dozen of us behind him. He was alone, but there were several traitors in that gang. Ten, we didn't have much hope at all, we didn't expect him to be so lonely and brave, even if he was plotted against by those people at the last moment, and the most poisonous cold bones of my old Wen's family were in his body, he didn't fall down immediately ..."

Thorn was shocked and said in disbelief: "...Hangusan?"

That poison is the first-class strange poison in this world, it can make people's viscera freeze, tendons and bones break, and anyone who is poisoned will feel as if they are frozen in pain, and they will not live for a while.However, Gu Yuexuan has been poisoned for more than half a year, and he still has a little luck in his heart, hoping that he got it wrong.

However, Wen Hu Jiu still nodded, and sighed: "After we escaped, Gu Daxia has also been poisoned. Although the old man is good at medicine, there is no way to take this cold bone powder. We can only try our best to protect it with medicine His pulse. I didn't expect that he could survive it. He woke up three days later and bid farewell to us, saying that he would return to Xiaoyao Valley. Not long after, the old man heard that he resigned as the leader of the alliance, and he thought that it should be related to the poison he was suffering from. Although my Wen family is not a hero in the rivers and lakes, they must repay their grievances. Since Daxia Gu has kindness to me, I will do my best to detoxify him. It is a pity that the old man is not good at medicine. Still powerless."

Hearing this, Thorn's blood rushed to the top instantly, wishing he could draw his knife against the old man's skinny neck, and pressed him, why is that man so powerless when he is obviously good-looking?How can you be powerless!

But after all, he is no longer the impulsive and irritable teenager he used to be.

Clenching and loosening the hand holding the handle of the knife, he asked in a hoarse voice, "...how is the situation now?"

Warming Pot Nine hesitated, "The toxicity is still there."

Thorn took a few deep breaths before asking, "How much longer?"

Warming Pot Nine told the truth: "Not more than half a year."

Thorn said unwillingly: "There is no other way?"

Wen Hujiu said helplessly: "If even Wangyougu's miracle doctor can't cure it, then this old man will be even more helpless."

Thorn closed his eyes, paused for a while, and asked again: "Will the poison be affected by the use of force?"

Warming Pot Nine Ways: "People's internal strength is stored in the viscera and sends out in the muscles and bones. People who suffer from cold bone powder will not be affected by the internal strength and martial arts, and the use of strength will not increase the toxicity, but..."

His heart trembled heavily, and Thorn asked sharply, "What will happen?"

The warm pot said nine times: "The pain is unbearable."

Recalling all the previous situations, Thorn knew that what the old man said was true.If it wasn't really painful, Gu Yuexuan would definitely not want to show even a little weakness in front of him.If you let him see one point, then there are probably ten and one hundred points behind it.He almost wanted to rush back to the inn, telling that person not to attack again, and to stay behind him with peace of mind—couldn't he protect Lu Shaolin with his thorny knife and sword?

But Thorn knew clearly in his heart that that person would never listen to him.

As long as there is still one breath left, that person will not back down in the face of danger.And could he really be cruel enough to force Gu Yuexuan to bind his hands and feet, and in these... the last few days, to become a useless person who doesn't know martial arts?

The thorns cannot and will not.His eyes were about to burst, he wanted to roar loudly, and he also wanted to smash the high gray wall in front of him with a knife.Why... Why did you tell him that there is a deadline for what he longs to get back when his heart is loose and he is determined to turn back?If he had known earlier... had known earlier...

I only heard another soft sigh from next to my ear: "But... Gu Daxia said that he is very happy now, this is really true."

Thorn's drooping head moved slightly.

Wen Hujiu continued: "When I first met him half a year ago, even if he hadn't been poisoned, there was a deep, deep tiredness on his body. I have never seen that kind of stagnant water in a young man. The old man thought to himself, he must have suffered an extremely painful blow... But he is the young hero that everyone admires in the martial arts, the leader of the martial arts alliance standing on the top of the rivers and lakes? What kind of person is he? Can't ask for it?"

Thorn slowly opened his eyes wide.

The wooden crutch in Wen Hujiu's hand lightly tapped the ground, turned around, and said: "When Daxia Gu was poisoned and passed out, he kept repeating one sentence..."

The old and hoarse voice was drifting away a little bit by the wind, but Gu Yuexuan's voice rang out very clearly in Thorn's ears.

He said, I can't die yet.

...I haven't found Aji yet.

In the inn, after waiting for a long time, Jing Ji didn't come back, and Gu Yuexuan didn't dare to leave Lu Shaolin to go out to find someone, so he had to go back to his room first.I don't know how many hours I sat at the table, but he couldn't help but dozed off.

Dimly, as if feeling someone standing in front of him, Gu Yuexuan was already in a very shallow sleep, and immediately opened his eyes, saw the person in front of him clearly, and called out in a daze, "Aji?"

The lamps and candles on the table had long been burned out, and the sky outside was dimly lit. The person in front of him must have been blowing the wind all night from nowhere, and his whole body exuded a Xiao Su chill.

Thorn just looked down at him motionlessly, and the brows slowly gathered.It wasn't until Gu Yuexuan was stared at that his smile froze that he opened his mouth: "...how long will you lie to me?"

Even his voice was cold, but it didn't seem that hard, with a slight sense of loss.

Gu Yuexuan raised his eyebrows slightly, and the fingers resting on the table trembled suddenly.After a while, he finally said softly: "Ah Ji, you went to find Senior Wen?"

Thorn still stared at him firmly, and hummed softly as his tacit consent.

Gu Yuexuan frowned, smiled bitterly and said, "...It's not that serious. Ah Ji, I said I'm fine, and I'm really fine. I didn't say clearly, I'll only be in pain for another year or so at most. I think this long time should be enough for me to come out and look for you, right? I didn’t expect you to appear in front of me in less than a year. Ah Ji, I’m really happy.”

When the person in front of him said these words, his eyes were always bright and full of spirit.

This is Gu Yuexuan who Thorn is familiar with.He couldn't help thinking, how could the young man in the nine mouthfuls of the warm pot, who was as dry as stagnant water, be the same as the one he saw in front of him?

It's just that February's spring-like gaze made his heart tighten at this moment.Thorn blurted out: "...But this is not enough."

Half a year, a year, how can this be enough?

Unexpectedly, Gu Yuexuan smiled lightly: "Ah Ji, that's enough. This period of time has been long enough for me to understand many things that I have never understood before. Didn't you ask me why I can always easily understand Get everything you want?"

Thorn cut his throat and muttered, "That was just a moment of my anger."

When he was young and frivolous, he always wanted to turn himself into a thorn, pricking the seemingly impeccable tenderness from time to time.

Gu Yuexuan shook his head indifferently, and said: "After that, I thought about it for a long time, but I still haven't completely cleared up my thoughts. After you left, the master handed over the position of master to me, and other comrades hoped that I could be the master of martial arts. Leader, I think you are probably right, all of this came too easily. But I seemed... not too happy. Until one day, I realized that my time was running out... I suddenly became afraid. At that moment, I realized that in my whole life, I have never really thought about what I want."

Thorn seemed to have an answer in his heart, but he still couldn't help asking: "...what is it?"

Gu Yuexuan closed his eyes and said, "What I'm afraid of is that I don't have enough time to find you. And what I want..."

He opened his eyes suddenly and looked up at the thorns.

"What I want is now by my side."

The two of them just stood half a step apart, looking at each other quietly.

The sky outside the window brightened up bit by bit.

Thorn suddenly bent down and hugged Gu Yuexuan.He hugged her so hard, so hard that his entire shoulders were trembling slightly, but he let go of his hand very quickly, as if he was afraid that the cold air that hadn't dissipated from his body would accidentally touch the other party.

Gu Yuexuan looked both surprised and happy, and there was a bit of anger on his pale cheeks.

Thorn turned his head and whispered, "The answer to that question is no."

Gu Yuexuan was surprised: "... Ah Ji?"

Thorn gritted his teeth and said quickly, "You asked me when you were in Hangzhou if you still have to leave."

Gu Yuexuan was taken aback for a moment, then frowned again, almost laughing out loud.