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Chapter 223 Chains
Time never waits for anyone, and it never makes any noise. When you suddenly look back and feel the existence of time, time is pushing the heavy wheel of history forward.

During the days when Tian Kun went to the mountains with his father to collect herbs, the relationship between Bai Xiaoxue and Shi Chao heated up day by day, and the two chatted.In fact, most of the time, it was Bai Xiaoxue who listened to Shi Chao.Bai Xiaoxue has never been out of Ziwu Village since she was a child, and she is very curious about the outside world, while Shichao has traveled all over the world, eating and sleeping in the open. His experience is much more than Bai Xiaoxue, even Tian Kun.

Every morning, the two of them made an appointment to stroll around the village together. Shichao's leg recovered very quickly, and he was able to walk with a limp without a cane.The stories of Shichao are endless, and they are not repeated every day. These stories are full of thrills, life and death, the joy of victory in battle, and the tragedy after a fiasco.They often met near the mountain temple, and Xiaoxue sat quietly on the bench in the temple, listening to Shichao's stories.

Following Shi Chao's train of thought, Bai Xiaoxue seemed to have opened the door to a new world and saw the outside world.The appearance of Shichao seemed to be a key that opened the cage of the canary.It also opened the heart of this young girl who was in love.

On this day, Shichao invited Xiaoxue to the mountain temple again.

Bai Xiaoxue: "Brother Shichao, what story are you telling me today?"

Shi Chao: "Actually, uh, today, I'm here to say goodbye to you."

Bai Xiaoxue turned pale: "Ah? What?"

Shichao said calmly: "Uncle Tian told me last night that the war is coming to an end, our team has found its position, and we are about to launch a final attack on the enemy! So I have to go to support them."

Bai Xiaoxue: "Ah? Aren't your legs still in good shape?"

Shi Chao: "My legs have recovered a long time ago. Uncle Tian's medicine is really amazing. In just a few months, my legs have recovered."

Bai Xiaoxue lowered her head in great disappointment, with tears in her eyes, she didn't want Shi Chao to see her, and asked sadly, "So, have you packed your things? When are you leaving?"

Shichao: "I'll leave early tomorrow morning, my things have been packed. It's just..."

Bai Xiaoxue: "Just what?"

Shi Chao: "There is one thing that I haven't finished yet."

Bai Xiaoxue: "Huh? What? What can I do to help?"

Shichao: "Xiaoxue, I like you, marry me." Shichao was straightforward.

Xiaoxue blushed from the neck to the face, and said quickly: "Brother Shichao, what are you talking about, I hate it."

Shichao: "Xiaoxue, I've thought about it for a long time, and have been hesitating whether to tell you and how to tell you, but today has come, and I can't care about so much, so I have to say it. When I go to the battlefield, I will almost die If you don’t talk about it, you won’t have a chance. No matter what you think, I’m going to talk about it anyway.”

Xiaoxue said quickly: "Bah, bah, bah, just say some unlucky bastard words, I don't allow you to say that. I'll just wait for you."

Startled, Shi Chao stood up and said, "Wait for me? Huh? So, you agreed?"

Bai Xiaoxue lowered her head shyly: "Don't make me wait too long, you must take care of yourself."

Shi Chao took Bai Xiaoxue's hand and said, "Two years, at most two years, you wait for me. During these two years, I will write to you every month to report that you are safe, so don't worry."

Shichao turned around, knelt down in front of the mountain god statue, and swore: "I, Shichao, swear that within two years, I will make great achievements, come back to marry Bai Xiaoxue, leave here, go far away and fly outside to live a happy life. If I can't do it, in the next life I will I will be relegated to this wild beast in Ziwu Mountain, and will protect Xiaoxue forever."

Bai Xiaoxue was moved by Shichao's rhetoric, and knelt down in front of the mountain god statue to swear: "I want to know you, and I will live forever. There are no hills in the mountains, and the rivers are exhausted. The thunder in winter shakes, and the rain and snow in summer. The heaven and the earth are united. Dare to break with the king."

This scene happened to be seen by Tian Kun who was quietly following behind him. Today is Shichao’s last day in Ziwu Village. After getting along for more than half a year, he also has a certain relationship, so Tian Kun and Kun’s father did not go to collect Instead of taking medicine, he stayed at home as a farewell party for Shichao.On the first night, Tian Kun saw Shichao tossing and turning his mind, and hurried out early the next morning.Tian Kun felt that something was wrong, so he followed Shichao all the time, only to find out that he asked Bai Xiaoxue to come out to express his feelings.

At this moment, Tian Kun's heart was twisted like a knife, and thousands of needles were piercing his heart. He felt that his chest was tight and he couldn't breathe. It was the first time in his life that he felt this kind of heartbreak.The heart is broken, and the dream is also broken.

On that day, many people in the village went to the entrance of the village to see off Shichao and this brave little soldier. Everyone sighed. Such a young life is about to be baptized by the flames of war. These young lives have not had time to feel the beauty of the world. If you want to leave in a hurry, the war leaves not only disasters for human beings, but also a mockery of the self-righteous higher creatures like human beings.

Everyone watched Shichao's back gradually drifting away, only Tian Kun kept staring at Bai Xiaoxue in the crowd. Bai Xiaoxue was so lost, so pitiful, and so helpless.But this time, Tian Kun knew that if he wanted to make Xiaoxue happy, there was nothing he could do.

The days were still going on day by day, and Bai Xiaoxue came to Tian Kun's house every day to get medicine as always, but Tian Kun and Xiaoxue had nothing to say, and Xiaoxue was always absent-minded, and walked back in a daze after taking the medicine.

Kun's father asked Tian Kun: "At the end of the year, Dad will propose marriage for you."

Tian Kun: "No need, Dad. I, I don't want to get married yet. Besides, Xiaoxue, she already has her own heart."

Kun's father is a sensible person, and he didn't ask any further questions, he just sighed...

The doctor can cure the disease, but not the life; the doctor can cure the body, but not the heart.

Since Shichao left, Xiaoxue's health has been deteriorating, one is because she misses Shichao more and more day by day, and the other is because her body has actually developed a certain resistance to the previous pharmacy.

But even though she was so unwell, she still insisted on going to the mountain temple to pray every day.There is no impenetrable wall in the world. Gradually, everyone knows that Bai Xiaoxue is praying for her lover Shichao who went to war every day.The folks lamented, what an infatuated girl.Every time Tian Kun hears these discussions, he always feels a deep sadness in his heart, infatuated person?Who is not?
In this way, a chain of lovesickness was formed. This chain locked Shichao, Bai Xiaoxue, and Tian Kun. Everyone was trapped by love in it, and everyone experienced this torment in their hearts.There is no one right or wrong among the three people. The three people cannot break free from this shackle, because their hands are holding the chain tightly, because they believe that the other end of the chain must be the future they yearn for.

And this chain that locked them firmly was—waiting.

　Tomorrow after tomorrow, how many tomorrows.I live for tomorrow, and everything is in vain. - Allantoin
　　
　
(End of this chapter)