Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 93 Why we are always dragged down by the long past (2)
These words made An Xingmian speechless.Xue Huaiqing didn't say that he didn't feel it yet, but after hearing this, he suddenly realized that he was indeed not the kind of person who could put everything aside.From this point of view, it seems that my cultivation in the past few years has not been able to purify my heart and get rid of desires.

He suddenly remembered the conversation he had with Boss Feng a few days ago.At that time, he was drinking with Boss Feng. After drinking a few big bowls, Boss Feng suddenly asked, "When are you going to leave?"

"Go?" An Xingmian was taken aback, "I haven't thought about it yet, but if we bother you here..."

"Stop fucking farting!" Boss Feng interrupted him unceremoniously, "You know I like you two. According to my temperament, the longer you live on this island, the better. Among other things, Xiaoxue is here Here, those puppies who can not take a bath for a year have learned to love clean... But can you really live long and don't care about anything?"

"This..." An Xingmian was at a loss for words for a while, "I haven't thought that far yet, living here is indeed very happy."

"Then take some time to think about it," Boss Feng poured wine for him, "you and us are not the same way after all, and you have to leave sooner or later. Staying too securely on my island will make your legs weak. I know You care about Xiaoxue in your heart, and you are afraid that things will not go well and she will be hurt, but in a lifetime, the more you are afraid of some things, the more you can't avoid them. You might as well summon up the courage to yell at the sky: Fuck it, I did it. I He is a rough man, and he can't say anything learned, but you are a smart man, so you should understand."

Of course An Xingmian understood, but at that time he drank a lot of wine, and his alcohol was on the rise, so he didn't bother to think about Boss Feng's words.Looking back now, even this rough pirate can see that he doesn't belong here, so are those thoughts of comfort in his head really just completely unrealistic fantasies?
"Don't think too much, every time you think too much, you will always make unwise choices," Xue Huaiqing took out a handkerchief, and wiped off the rain from An Xingmian's hair and forehead, "I I still remember that in the Forest of Illusions, when I was wondering whether I should continue to pursue the past of my adoptive father who seemed to have little to do with me, you said something to me, and I have remembered those words until now."

An Xingmian was startled, then recalled the situation at that time, and Xue Huaiqing had already continued: "At that time you said to me: 'The Enlightened One who wrote the "Long Gate Sutra" compared life to one after another. Endless Nagato. We ordinary creatures want to pass through Nagato to obtain the ultimate peace and liberation. The practice of Nagato monks is to obtain this kind of peace, and you can also work hard for this kind of peace. , which is to let go, to do what brings you peace.'”

"I did say that..." An Xingmian murmured, already understanding the meaning of Xue Huaiqing's words.

"So, if you really abandon everything and live in seclusion, all you can get is superficial tranquility," Xue Huaiqing said, "but deep down in your heart, you won't be peaceful, that's really good Is it? At least I don't think so."

"Then...let me think about it again," An Xingmian sighed, "Living in this world is really hard every step of the way. Then..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard a few hasty shouts from a distance.The voice was sharp and shrill, one could hear the emotion of panic, and it seemed that the spirit was low.

"What's that shout?" An Xingmian asked Xue Huaiqing, who had excellent hearing.

"He shouted: There are officers and soldiers attacking at night!" Xue Huaiqing yelled, "Hurry up and inform Brother Feng!"

The two quickly ran back.At this time, countless flames suddenly lit up around the pirates, and those flames came from dozens of huge warships.These warships surrounded the entire island and had already launched an attack.

The island was in chaos, and the sleeping pirates woke up one after another, hastily grabbed their weapons to fight, but the officers and soldiers who came this time obviously made sufficient preparations and careful arrangements in advance, and first used dense arrows in the dark night. The rain shot at the enemy, and the pirates were constantly hit by arrows, causing heavy casualties.Under the cover of strong bows and crossbows, officers and soldiers landed one after another and began to fight hand-to-hand.

"What's the matter, damn it!" Boss Feng hurried out without even putting on his shirt, and rushed out bare-chested with a big knife in his hand, "These officers and soldiers usually have a tacit understanding with us, and I also use informants every year." Giving them tribute...how could you tear your face apart all of a sudden!"

However, Boss Feng had seen strong winds and waves after all. After the initial anger and rage, he quickly calmed down and judged the situation clearly: "No, there are too many officers and soldiers coming, it is impossible to stop them, hurry up and break through!"

He turned to An Xingmian again: "Boy, you two follow me, don't run around!"

"I can help defend against officers and soldiers..." An Xingmian was interrupted by Boss Feng just as he was speaking.Boss Feng reached out and patted the back of his head hard, looking very annoyed: "Stupid thing! We are all bachelors, you have to save your life to protect your woman! If you don't talk nonsense, I might as well hack you to death first!"

Of course, An Xingmian could avoid Boss Feng's shot, but he didn't.The head hurts from being patted, and the heart hurts even more.Of course he understood Boss Feng's good intentions, after all, Xue Huaiqing was just recovering from his injury; he also knew that the officers and soldiers were coming in menacingly, adding one more himself might not be of much use.But watching his friend die while he hides aside is not his style, and Xue Huaiqing is definitely not such a cowardly and timid woman.

He turned his head and glanced at Xue Huaiqing, and found that Xue Huaiqing had already thrown away the umbrella, and there was a faint silver light flickering between his ten fingers, which meant that she had buckled the poisonous needle with her fingers.The two of them were in the same mind, so there was no need to say anything, An Xingmian smiled slightly and began to move his knuckles.

However, at this moment, another pirate came to report, and what he said shocked everyone: "The ship...the bottom of the ship is all leaked! All the ships are starting to sink!"

"It's impossible!" Boss Feng slammed his fist on a tree next to him, "We have installed protective nets and mechanism blades underwater, how can the water ghosts of officers and soldiers have such great abilities, and they are so powerful in such a short time?" sink all our ships?"

Boss Feng could only curse a few words.The reality is that the officers and soldiers have already invaded the island, and all the pirates' ships are sinking slowly through the bottom. The people on the island have no way to escape and can only sit and wait to die.

An Xingmian and Xue Huaiqing have repeatedly fallen into various dangers this year, and they are not in a panic at the moment, they are ready for a fierce battle, but Boss Feng stopped them again.

"Don't waste your efforts," Boss Feng's voice was unusually deep, "The enemy is ten times stronger than us, no matter how powerful you two are, let alone us who committed the robbery, it has nothing to do with you, there is no need to lose two lives. Hurry up and enter my room, there is a secret room under the bed for emergency escape, the way to open it is..."

An Xingmian wanted to speak, but Boss Feng stopped him with a resolute gesture: "Don't say anything more, although we haven't been together for long, I really like you two and treat you as my brother and sister. If you think of me as a big brother too, listen to me. I have to live and die with the brothers on the island, they recognize me as the boss, I have to die with them, I can't hide alone, you two have to keep life."

"I can't leave you alone like this!" An Xingmian shouted, "You are my brothers too!"

"Fart your mother!" Boss Feng was furious, "With your little ability, can you manage it? Going up is going to die in vain! It's fine if you die, but do you want sister Xiaoxue to be buried with you? You bastard! "

An Xingmian had nothing to say.He knew that what Boss Feng said was reasonable, and if he insisted on fighting with the pirates at this moment, he would only lose two extra lives in vain, but it would be impossible to save half of them.Instead of doing that, it's better to live by yourself, at least you can leave a chance to avenge Boss Feng.But at this moment, Boss Feng's appearance seemed to coincide with that of his sworn brother Bai Qianyun again, and that familiar and intimate taste made him want to cry.

"Let's go," Xue Huaiqing took his hand and said softly, "Listen to what Big Brother says."

Boss Feng grinned at the two of them, then turned around, roared and rushed towards the flames ahead with his knife in hand.His figure was quickly mixed with countless figures, making it impossible to distinguish.For An Xingmian and Xue Huaiqing, the brief happy time in the past few days was like the bodies of the pirates who went on and on, being torn apart in the bloody smell that could not be washed away by rain.

three

Eliminating the well-known pirate Feng Tian and his subordinates entrenched in the strait is really a great achievement, and Yuhuan is very proud of it.As Zhenhai Envoy of the Domigce city-state in the northern part of Lanzhou, Yu Huan has always wanted to do something in the eradication of pirates, but suffered from the ineffectiveness of the scout department and the lack of reliable information.But this time, an unexpected opportunity fell from the sky. A nobleman brought him the precise address of the island and a detailed map of the distribution of troops, allowing him to personally lead the army to wipe out Feng Tian's pirates in one fell swoop. The future career will also change because of this great victory.

However, the loss in this battle was not small. Those pirates still had amazing fighting power in the desperate situation, causing a lot of damage to his navy.Especially Feng Tian himself, he was like a wounded and desperate shark, with dozens of wounds all over his body, he still stood upright, and his eyes were wide open until he died.Of course Yuhuan was very unhappy about this, so after the battle, he ordered Feng Tian's head to be cut off, hung up at the gate of the city, and let the crows eat it.He was very satisfied to see that the people passing by all showed fear when they saw this ferocious head, which was right.

Just to scare you guys, Yuhuan thought, if you are scared, you won't dare to confront the government.

This night, Yu Huan attended the celebration banquet that he couldn't remember which time it was. Those old aristocrats who used to look at him with contempt and distrust, now replaced them with flattering ones. Smiling face, scrambling to win him over and curry favor with him, this makes Yu Huan especially relieved.He drank dozens of glasses of wine and was very drunk before he was sent back to the mansion by his attendants.

Yuhuan was so drunk that he didn't even bother to take off his clothes and shoes, he leaned on the bed, pulled half of the quilt over his body, and soon fell asleep.He didn't know how long he had slept for, but he suddenly felt a biting cold attack from his head to his whole body, and suddenly woke up from the wine, he opened his mouth to exclaim, but found that his mouth was firmly blocked by something, and he couldn't make a sound.He subconsciously wanted to struggle again, but felt that his body was also tightly restrained, unable to move.

Oops!Yu Huan suddenly sobered up from the wine.He opened his eyes, and sure enough, he found that he was firmly bound by ropes, and a rag was stuffed in his mouth, and the coldness just now came from a basin of cold water poured on him.Now his whole body is drenched upside down in the air, a man and a woman are standing on the ground below, and the appearance of this man and woman looks very familiar...

He suddenly remembered that a few days ago, when the mysterious nobleman came to him and asked him to send troops to attack the pirate island, he not only gave him detailed information related to the pirates, but also specifically explained that he wanted to attack the pirate island. Find two people on the pirate island, and you must catch them alive.

"However, there is no need to be timid and afraid to launch an attack because of this," the nobleman told him, "If they have no self-protection ability in such an environment, they will be useless to me."

It's a pity that after capturing the island, Yuhuan ordered people to search with all their strength, but they still couldn't find those two people.He was a little suspicious that those two people were not on the island at all, and the nobleman didn't blame him: "Most likely they were, and they probably slipped away, but those two people were not ordinary people, you can't catch them It's also normal."

So Yuhuan put this matter behind him, and enjoyed the various celebrations after the great achievement with peace of mind. He never expected that after more than ten days, these two people would come to the door by themselves, and it was such an unexpected night attack .He began to believe what the nobleman said, the man and the woman were indeed not ordinary characters, but unfortunately, he seemed to realize it a little bit late.

"We're going to take the cloth ball out of your mouth, but if you dare to shout out, I'll wring your neck right away," said the elegant young man.Yu Huan nodded with difficulty, and then the cloth ball in his mouth was ripped out.

"You...what do you want to do?" Yu Huan tried his best to make his voice sound more dignified, "Do you know that the kidnapping of the imperial court official is..."

"If I were you, I wouldn't threaten others so uselessly," the young man said, "Since I dared to break into your mansion and hang you upside down, I wouldn't care so much about the consequences, but you should take care of yourself." Use your brain: Bind you instead of killing you immediately, it shows that you are still valuable, but if you continue to provoke us..."

"I understand! I'll give you whatever you want!" Yuhuan was not stupid, and immediately changed his words, "I'll give you whatever you want!"

"You're really smart," the blond young woman who suspected to be a feathered man nodded, "Then we don't have to go around. Please tell us right away, who told you to attack Feng Tian's pirate island? Did that person give you an answer?" Have you explained other things, for example, capturing two people alive?"

It was only then that Yuhuan realized that these two people came here for this matter.He was extremely remorseful, and felt that he should not have agreed to this troublesome matter if he knew earlier. As for whether not agreeing would lead to harsher treatment from that big man, he couldn't care less about it.The so-called burning eyebrows, and looking at the moment, Yuhuan took a deep breath, and continued like an endorsement: "Yes, the attack on Feng Tian was indeed instigated by someone behind the scenes, and the purpose was indeed to arrest the two of you. The one who instructed me The person in charge is a very powerful person, his name is Yuwen Jingnan, I heard that people outside the court call him Mr. Yuwen..."

"So, is there any way you can contact Mr. Yuwen?" the man asked.

"Young Master Yuwen has never been willing to reveal his identity to the outside world, and his whereabouts are very secretive. He has always contacted me through a single line." A code was left somewhere in Hanxi Town in the middle of Lanzhou, explaining the specific matters, and if the matter is urgent enough, he will send someone to find me."

"Then please leave a few words for him, and remember not to play any tricks, otherwise, you won't be able to get the antidote." The woman said, reaching out to pat him on the back.Yuhuan only felt a pain on his back, as if he had been pricked by a needle, the pain disappeared immediately, and the wound was itchy.He knew that he must have been poisoned by some kind of powerful poison, so he couldn't help but blacken his eyes, but he also knew that begging for mercy at this moment would be of no use at all, so he could only smile wryly: "You two are so powerful, of course I dare not play tricks, I don't know what you want to keep talk?"

"We want to see him, and we must choose the time and place. If we don't agree, we will destroy what he wants." The man said.

"I understand, I'll do it right away!" Yu Huan said, "But please put me down first..."

One morning at the end of November, the famous Mr. Yuwen came to Qiuye Mountain City in the north of Lanzhou.He always travels lightly and lightly, this time he was alone, with no entourage around him.He slowly rode his horse into the city gate, and the horse's hooves made a few clear hoofprints on the ground covered with fresh snow, as if to let people see his actions clearly.

(End of this chapter)