twin moon

Chapter 61, Scene Seven

Although the tide has receded, standing by the river, you can still hear the rumbling roar in the distance.The tide will continue to go up the river, and will not turn back until Xiyin City, which is dozens of miles away.Some travelers who came from other places specially hired a carriage to chase the tide head all the way eastward in order to reward the tide.And the place where they took the car was under a tall pavilion called "Kanjiang" by the river.

At this time, the traffic on the road has already left, and even the last few tide watchers on the pavilion have dispersed like birds and beasts.However, there were still two figures who seemed to be unsatisfied, and seemed to have a tacit understanding, and came out from the eaves at the east and west ends of the highest floor of the Guanjiang Pavilion.

"You're here. Have you been waiting long?"

The wind picked up the corner of the man's clothes, making a rustling sound.He has a short beard around his lips, is dressed in a green robe and a green robe, and has two long knives, one red and one black, hanging around his waist. It is the soldiers and horses in front of the palace guarding Baili.

"It didn't take long. I didn't come out until all the customers in the store had left."

Another person answered, the silver ornaments on his head and body jingling, it was Leng Jiayun, the hostess of Jiayunzhai.

"The tide of the Yanjiang River is still so spectacular. Do you remember when we first entered the Mulu, we went up to the tower to enjoy the tide here, and we were deeply shocked by it? I haven't been to Jiangkou for many years. I thought that the current me , I have been able to keep calm, but I never thought that facing the same scene, my heart still cannot be calm." General Tsing Yi sighed.

"But after all—it's still a little different. After all, 23 years have passed, and you are no longer the passionate brat you were back then." Leng Jiayun shook her head.

"However, the will left by the elder brother has not yet been completed. These days, I can't help but wonder if I have let him down..."

"How could it be? If you hadn't been ordered in the face of danger back then, I'm afraid that elder brother would have already become a barren mound among the withered grass at the foot of Hezhai Mountain. And today in Qingwan on Weizhou Island, it is even less likely that there will be a living person left."

The woman in purple stood beside Xiang Baili, and didn't look at him, but raised the food box in her hand a little higher, "So don't think about it too much, things are impermanent, you can't force it. You haven't eaten yet, have you? Come on." , these are dumplings made by that girl Xiaoyue herself, they are fresh only when they are hot."

The man in Tsing Yi turned his head and stared at the woman's face. After a long time, he reached out and took out a dumpling from the food box and threw it into his mouth, chewing and tasting it carefully: "Xiao Jia, that girl's skills are almost as good as yours. Already."

Leng Jiayun finally showed a smile: "Stop talking about compliments, you took the initiative to ask me out today, and you deliberately chose such a crowded place where it's not easy to be followed, you must have something important to say?"

"I can't hide it from you. I asked you to come out this time because of that girl Ning Yue."

"Oh, haven't I told you many times that the girl's life experience can't be figured out with my ability. Besides, since the case of General Temple three years ago, the mysterious person who instigated Luo Jianli I haven't shown up in the city again. Do you still need to care so much about Xiaoyue's matter now?" The woman seemed unwilling to discuss this matter, and frowned slightly.

Seeing this, Xiang Baili on the opposite side said again: "It's not that I want to worry so much, it's just that the commotion in the Shihua Pavilion gave Qi Shouyu an excuse to act in front of the lord and the ministers at the early court today. Question me face-to-face. If we continue to procrastinate unclearly, it may bring big trouble to our plan!"

"But Baili, have you ever thought that maybe Xiaoyue doesn't even know what the power in her body is?"

General Tsing Yi shook his head firmly: "There is absolutely no such possibility—in fact, Xiao Jia, you should understand in your heart that that girl's life experience is not as simple as she said."

With these words, Leng Jiayun couldn't help raising her voice: "Baili, what do you mean? Are you accusing me of deliberately hiding something from you?"

"I just think, don't you love that girl a little too much?" The man said, but Ruju's gaze never moved away from the other's face, and he never even blinked.

"Don't look at me with that kind of eyes. I've never told you half a lie in my life. The world can learn from you!" The Dongli woman seemed a little annoyed, but she still tried her best to keep her tone as gentle as ever, "If it's too much Love, why don't you treat those two boys differently? You spend two or three hours every day teaching them patiently, just like how your elder brother taught you back then, and even risked your own fate and future!"

Xiang Baili was suddenly stunned by the other party's words, and it took a long time before he smiled wryly and let out a long sigh, and turned his gaze back to the figures of the three children in the open space beside the river embankment in the distance:
"Yes, some things have indeed changed, but I haven't noticed it myself. Maybe I have already understood this whole thing, and it is impossible for you and me to carry it out after all."

"Don't say such things, haven't we come all the way to today?"

"But that's all in the past. Do you know that the method of making the firebolt gun may have been leaked. In fact, when the Yugu Lake camp was attacked three years ago, I had doubts. However, all the bones had been turned into There was a pile of coke, and there was no evidence to support it, so I didn't investigate it further. Now that I think about it, it has left a serious problem."

Hearing what the other party said, the woman in purple couldn't help but turn pale:

"How is this possible? The firebolt gun is a weapon that only craftsmen in Qingwan can make. Before the eldest brother died, he deliberately ordered all the firearms left in the world to be sunk into the bottom of the sea. He also told you and me that we must never let this thing fall into anyone. In the hands of Hou Guo—”

"But it is true. Now, I am afraid that the firebolt gun is no longer a secret to some people in the world."

"What is your basis for saying that?"

"According to the news from Qingwan, just a month ago, a fishing village by the seaside of Yu State was attacked by a mysterious black ship. All the old, young, sick and weak in the village were killed, and all the strong and strong men were taken away, and their whereabouts are unknown. There were many strange penetrating wounds on the corpses, and fragmented and deformed lead lumps remained in the wounds."

After some explanation, the woman also fell silent.There was a wind blowing from the surface of the river, which made her feel a little cold, and she couldn't help wrapping her arms around her chest.Xiang Baili at the side hastily reached out to take off his fur cloak and put it on the other's shoulders.Leng Jiayun nodded her thanks, before speaking again, breaking the suffocating coldness in the air:

"Baili, have you ever thought about what the world would be like if the firebolt guns flowed into the hands of princes from all over the world?"

"No matter who masters such a sharp weapon, it will form an overwhelming advantage over all parties. Even if the remaining princes unite to defend against the enemy, it may be difficult to escape the crisis of destroying the country."

The woman in purple shook her head: "What I want to ask is, what about you and me?"

"If you asked me this way twenty years ago, I would have said it meant a new beginning. But now, I feel more and more that if that moment really comes, for you and me, for Qingwan, maybe It all means that the end is approaching. Fate always plays with people between applause, and what ordinary people can do is to try their best to avoid those bad results. However, many times, everything All my struggles may be in vain..."

Xiang Baili's answer didn't seem to satisfy the woman.She turned around and stroked the man's sad face with her hands:

"Twenty years ago, in order to save your eldest brother, you killed the general Yu Jing sent to Donglip to suppress the rebellion, and then used the identity of the other party to defect to the country of Ye, and secretly recovered Qingwan. All of this is because of you Breaking the new future created by fate with my own hands, how can we say what the end is, and how can it be all in vain? I always believe in my heart that one day the two of us will stay away from the troubles of the world and live our own lives together!"

"My life... More than twenty years have passed, and I don't dare to have any extravagant hopes for it now." Although Xiang Baili said this, his eyes showed great yearning for the future.

"But if there is such a day, will you leave here with me? I think——I want to go to Jiushan." Leng Jiayun hesitated for a moment, but still told the secret in her heart.

"Jiu Shan? Don't you want to go back to Ye Li?" General Tsing Yi asked in surprise.

"Well, I don't want to. There are too many irreversible pasts in Yeli City, and too many regrets that I don't want to face. When it's all over, I just want to start a new life again. A time without any commitments, just the two of us."

"What about your favorite crabapple? It's too cold in Jiushan, and the crabapple flowers can't bloom." Xiang Baili turned his head to look at the woman in front of him, and felt that the heart under her weak appearance was actually stronger than he imagined. Much tougher.

"I'm not a greedy person, and I've never had too many extravagant hopes. So, if I can really wait until that day comes, even if there are no crabapple flowers, as long as you are by my side, it will be enough."

Leng Jiayun's vermilion lips parted lightly, and she laughed again, her usual charm changed, and there was a trace of girlish innocence in her crooked eyebrows and eyes.It was as if the years had never left a trace on his body, as simple and pure as a piece of rough jade.In a daze, Xiang Baili thought that he had returned to more than twenty years ago, the age when he first met the other party.

At that time, he was full of vigor and courage...

Time just passed by inadvertently.On the embankment next to the Kanjiang River, there are still bursts of children's wanton laughter from time to time.The two people on the pavilion lowered their heads and looked down, but they saw the three shadows under the moon were already staggering, staggering drunk on the ground.

"Those three brats are drunk, let me help you take them back." General Tsing Yi said softly after regaining his senses.

"No, I've already prepared the carriage, and I'll come here to pick up the three of them in half an hour. You just offended Qi Shouyu this morning, and he must still have his eyes and ears nearby waiting for you to come down from this pavilion." Woolen cloth."

Xiang Baili looked at the woman in front of him in surprise.Unexpectedly, inadvertently, the convenience has already arranged everything properly.He nodded, turned around and prepared to walk towards His Excellency Kanjiang.However, just halfway through the walk, he stopped suddenly:

"Xiaojia, the deadline I agreed with you three years ago has now passed..."

But Leng Jiayun stretched out her hand and pushed the man's shoulder from behind vigorously, urging: "Don't be stupid, who would take such an obvious failure to keep a promise seriously. Go, go."

General Tsing Yi couldn't help but glanced back at the woman's flowery smile, and then walked downstairs quickly.The woman on the pavilion kept watching his back disappear among the dark brown tree shadows on both sides of the river embankment, but there was something spinning in her eyes, and she whispered to herself:

"Actually, in Jiayunzhai three years ago, I did take that promise seriously... But since I have been waiting for you for half my life, I don't care about waiting for a few more years. Even if I am destined to never be free for the rest of my life, I I will continue to wait... But, you must be careful..."

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