Mei Ziyan's heart suddenly became wrenched, she glanced at Mu Cheng, and the complicated and painful look in his eyes made her involuntarily moved. Mei Jiyao sat up covering his wounds, and said to Mu Cheng with an unsteady breath:

"Why did you withdraw the gun halfway? Didn't I teach you some time ago that you must be decisive in killing, and you must be hearty and happy in life?"

"What you want me to see, I've seen it just now, but why pick today?" Mu Cheng walked towards him step by step, his eyes were red but there was no murderous aura, only sadness and resentment.

"I ruined the happiness of other people's reunions, and the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival is the time to pay for my life. ”

"You know I can't do it!"

"I don't know. Mei Jiyao's voice weakened, "I don't know if you can do it, I just want you to know that we are in a strange circle, you stay and don't kill, you suffer, you kill me, you take revenge, but I don't know who will be happy because of this." I feel sorry for my daughter, no matter how far away she is from me, how can she live happily if you have a thorn in your heart? I don't want her to love others with the mentality of atonement," he looked up at his weeping wife, and forced a smile:

"Qing'er, don't cry, it's obviously my fault, isn't it? Don't blame others...... Tomorrow, let him go down the mountain, Mabel will go with him, and she will go too......"

The door of the Yanwutang was opened again, Sima Suisheng rushed in with the two of them, and when he saw this scene, he immediately stepped forward to help Mei Jiyao away, Mei Ziyan glanced at Mu Cheng deeply before leaving, and her eyes full of tears were full of deep reluctance......

Mu Cheng stood up as if his whole body strength had been suddenly drained, he knew that Mei Jiyao deliberately let him, and his Yaosun gun could easily pierce his shoulder socket...... Mei Jiyao wanted to tell him that he had taken revenge by killing him, but please let go of his daughter's hand......

It's not that he didn't think about such a scene today, it's just that he always has the heart to escape; for many months in Fufeng Academy, aside from Mei Jiyao being his enemy, his bearing, his martial arts and chess attainments are all things he really admires, and his heart has been quietly shaken, but he told himself that he can do his best on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, because he never believed that Sima Jiyao, the king of Xuanyang, would be no match for his juniors.

When I first entered Fufeng Academy, the two bamboo poles are still fresh in my memory.

But now it seems that everything is ahead of schedule, and everything is forcing him to make a choice that he has to leave her.

The collar was suddenly grabbed by someone, Sima Suisheng gave him a punch in the face without saying a word, which made blood ooze from the corner of his mouth, and the second punch hit under the ribs of his left chest, causing him to curl up involuntarily in pain.

The third punch, he waited for the third punch to fall, but Sima Suisheng just grabbed his shoulders and pushed him to the ground, his elbow fell and pressed his chest and scolded:

"The surname is Mu, you keep saying that you want revenge, let me ask you, your father has led the army for many years, has he never killed anyone? How can you repay the blood debt that your father also committed back then?!"

"Where did my mother's suffering come from, did you ask your Uncle Nashou Wang? If it weren't for your Mu clan's repeated compulsion, how could my master be angry at the crown and turn into a red face and kill Yiluo?! Your father died innocently, but his hands were never stained with the blood of the Dongting people?! If you want to count, my master has saved far more people than he has killed over the years! He has been feeling guilty and repaying for the things of the year, and if you want to kill him, will you take revenge or do evil?!"

"I thought you had matured, it turns out that you are still an out-and-out bastard! I want to kill my master, and I want to get Mei Bao, let me tell you, if my master can't pass this level this time, if Mei Bao doesn't kill you, I will kill you too!"

"You just came here to make Mei Bao sad for the rest of your life, have you thought about it, death is something that doesn't have to be rushed, the emperor and the general are still ordinary people, whether the merit is better or better, there will always be a day when you will return to the west. You value the past so much, even if you get revenge, can you go back to the past?!Can your parents be resurrected?"

"You have made Mei Bao miserable," Sima Suisheng said through gritted teeth, "Mu Cheng, this is the result of your love for her." If you still can't let go of your hatred, then, trouble you, get out of me!"

Mei Ziyan learned that Mu Cheng had gone down the mountain in the early morning of the second day, so she ran all the way out of Fufeng Academy and chased down the mountain, until she ran to the bottom of Qinglin Mountain.

There is no end in sight to the bend of the mountain road, Mei Ziyan is standing on the path at the foot of the mountain, the smoke and dust that have been raised by the horse's hooves have subsided at this time, how can he still be there?

When she returned to the mountain, it was past noon, Mei Jiyao, who had burned all night, finally came to her senses, she walked into the side room, Qing'er was sitting on the edge of the bed and handed the medicine bowl to his lips, and he was always reluctant to drink it, looking at her father's pale and bloodless face, she took the preserved fruit on the table and handed it to her father, saying:

"Dad, it's very bitter, isn't it? It's not so uncomfortable after eating this. ”

"He's gone?"

"Hmm. ”

Mei Jiyao stopped talking, drank the medicine obediently, and then looked at her and said, "Then why are you still here?"

Mei Ziyan was stunned, and Mei Jiyao said to her again: "Ride Xue Ji on, let the people who live with him inquire if he has returned to Tiandu, and if you go now, it is estimated that you will be able to find him within two days." ”

Mei Ziyan finally cried, hugged her father, and asked one after another: "Dad, don't you want Mei Bao?" I won't leave, I won't go anywhere...... I was wrong, I shouldn't have hidden it from my brother back then, I shouldn't have run away from home alone after my sister-in-law died, and I shouldn't have gone to Tiandu later...... I like him, but I don't want to choose between you, he has already chosen ......"

He had chosen not to say goodbye and had chosen to abandon her.

Mei Jiyao gently patted his daughter's shoulder, and Xia Qingshen whispered beside him: "Maybe, he just needs time and space to calm down......"

Mu Cheng really needed to be calm, and when he rode out of Henan City, the pain in his heart that he couldn't let go of was even more obvious.

What Sima Suisheng said, he could not refute a word.

But he didn't know how to face Sima Jiyao, he couldn't hate him, he couldn't kill him, at this moment he only felt that he was a disobedient and unfilial son who was ashamed of his parents, and he was a negative person who forgot his feelings and righteousness.

He returned to the Tiandu Suide Palace, and he was sick for a whole month and did not go to the court.

A month later, he went on a trip to Mianyuan, where he set up a courtyard and stayed there for three months.

As soon as the first lunar month passed, he took Qingzhao Baixuan to Qinglin Mountain in the eastern courtyard and southern Henan.

Along the way, he remembered the situation of keeping the New Year with her last year, and remembered that she was very afraid of the cold, and always liked to carry a hand stove by his side, I don't know if it was cold this year. After parting for the seemingly short but long months, he had a lot to say to her, he wanted to tell her that he didn't say goodbye at that time because he didn't want her to continue to be embarrassed, and he also wanted to tell her that he had seen the prosperity of the mutual market in the past few months, and under the friendship between the two countries, the shadow left by the war was almost wiped out with the improvement of people's livelihood.

He also wanted to tell her that when he left Mianyuan, he told his father that no amount of hatred could be matched by his love for a person, because of her, he wanted to put aside the burden that he had been holding tightly to support himself to live strongly, and his hatred was nothing more than the beautiful longing with her.

For the first time, he wanted to redeem himself so much;

Ziyan, you wait for me, as long as you are still waiting for me, I will admit whether you are beating, scolding, resenting or hating......

The situation was originally developing very satisfactorily, but the wind and clouds suddenly arose in the flat land, and Mu Cheng still did not go up to Qinglin Mountain.

An urgent document intercepted his footsteps as soon as he entered the southern city of Henan.

So, that day, Mei Ziyan only waited for a box and a message brought by Qing Zhao in Fufeng Academy.

The box was full of knick-knacks, including kites, bamboos, drums, sachets, and two dried noodles......

Qing Zhao said that these were all bought by the prince in the past few months when he returned to Tiandu in Mianyuan.

"What about your sons?"

"The prince is in a hurry to return to Yiluo halfway, and he doesn't have time to see the girl, please forgive me. ”

There is also a newly folded plum in the box, the flowers and leaves are still energetic, and the dark fragrance is overwhelming. Mei Ziyan picked up the black plum and asked indifferently:

"Where's this?"

The prince said that this was a dowry for Miss Mei. ”

Hearing this, Mei Ziyan couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.

"Dowry?"

"The prince said that after three months, he went to Qinglin Mountain to propose to the academician and marry Miss Mei to the Suide Palace. ”

He, has he figured it out?

On the newly folded plum branch, there is a crystal clear green jade ring.

Where did Mu Cheng go, Qing Zhao didn't say. However, the information from Tianji was that there was a conflict between Yiluo and Xirong on the border, and Mu Cheng led his troops to guard the border pass, gathering 100,000 troops outside Licheng, preparing for war on the one hand, and actively negotiating with Xirong on the other hand.

When she knew that the lord of Xirong Yuanwu had re-ascended the throne and ordered the execution of the lord of Xuande and the slaughter of his nine generations of relatives, her brows suddenly jumped for no reason.

In other words, the person who provoked the incident now is Helian Yue?

Mei Ziyan waited for three months, but she couldn't wait for Mu Cheng.

So on her birthday, she tied the green jade ring with a red rope and tied it around her neck, led Xue Ji, and went down the mountain. Walking out of the gate of Fufeng Academy, he stood under the old willow tree in front of the academy, dressed in light blue clothes and hunting in the wind.

"Going?" he walked up to her, his smile calm and gentle, but there was an imperceptible hint of loneliness in his eyes.

"Well," she smiled faintly at him, "Brother Sui, I'm not waiting, I'm going to find him." ”

"I'll go with you?" he said, "I'm going to go there...... there."

Mei Ziyan shook her head, "Don't worry, I will take care of myself." "The eyes are bright, and there is a faint light that is comparable to the brilliant early sun.

Once upon a time, the little girl who chased after him with two lines of snot and asked someone to take care of him, and the pain of someone was long gone......

He reached out and rubbed her long black waterfall hair at the back of her head, "Our Mabel has grown up and become brave.

She smiled, lowered her head embarrassedly, pulled Xue Ji and walked down the mountain. After taking two steps, she turned back to Sima Suisheng and said:

"Brother Suisheng, in fact, I have always been very brave, but you are too afraid of me being hurt and want to protect me too much, so you can't see it. You don't like me, you don't want me to like you, you don't want the gossip of the clan law to hurt me, I understand...... But with my brother, I have never regretted liking you...... I'm going to look for persimmons, I don't want to make the same mistake again, it's better to get it in pursuit than to lose it in waiting. I'm gone, take care ......"

After saying that, he turned over and got on the horse, and Xue Ji raised his hooves and walked away.

It turns out that she understands.

Sima Suisheng looked at the distant back with apprehension, he used to think that even if she was very smart, she was just a child, and the affection and admiration in her eyes for him was only the ignorant fanaticism of a young girl. He didn't know when she would lose her enthusiasm, and he didn't know how much the restraints of clan ethics would hurt her, so he carefully protected her from letting each other go beyond the rules.

Unexpectedly, in the end, he was wrong, avoiding his hazy and ambiguous feelings for her that could not be defined, but in a fit of rage, he slapped her and completely pushed her out of his wings.

When I looked back and found that the feeling was so precious, that person was already far away.

It turns out that the person who has never had the courage is himself.

When Mei Ziyan arrived in Chunhe Town, a town ten miles away from Licheng, the only road leading to Licheng had been placed under martial law. There are many foreign merchants staying here in Chunhe Town, and some Panhuan still can't enter Licheng for a few days, so they can only turn back to Yiluo or go back to Dongting by waterway.

Mei Ziyan was still dressed in a white robe and her hair was unkempt and tied into a man's bun, and half of her chopsticks were broken and inserted into the bun; there was no disfigurement on her face, only a few random wipes with grass and wood ashes, basically the same as begging, but a pair of narrow phoenix eyes were still bright and bright.

Shenjun's Xueji was poured two buckets of yellow mud on her body, and she became a tall "sick horse" when she landed. Mei Ziyan led her sick horse, carrying a bamboo basket full of herbs on her back through the streets and alleys, and was trying to find a place to sit down and eat noodles to fill her stomach, when she suddenly saw a small square table in the open space in the middle of the street, and there was a person wearing a red and green robe holding a peach wood sword and chanting words in his mouth, after playing a few tricks, the peach wood sword poked the yellow rune paper on the table and lit it on the red candle, and the ashes fell on the bowl with water on the table.

Many people were watching, and a woman at the table was crying with red and swollen eyes, holding a four- or five-year-old child in her arms, the child's cheeks were red and her eyes were closed, and the Taoist priest handed the talisman to the woman:

"Let him drink it, and keep it until dawn! The donor promised to give him ten taels of silver......

The woman nodded, "Serve it." He reached out and took the rune water.

"There's something wrong with this rune. Mei Ziyan said with a smile, squeezing through the crowd and leading Xue Ji over.

"Ignorant children are talking nonsense and blaspheming the elixir of the old monarch!" the Dao was angry, and his face turned red and pointed at her and scolded.

Mei Ziyan took the rune water and accidentally poured out the rune water. The woman was extremely nervous, and was about to open her mouth to stop her, when Mei Ziyan sniffed the rune water:

"Toxic. Raising his eyes at the Taoist priest, "Do you dare to take a sip yourself?"

"What if there is no poison?!" Taoist Taomu Sword pointed, "Dare to spoil the good things of the Taoist Master, see how the Taoist Master cleans you up?!"

"Do you dare to drink?" she said, raising her eyebrows defiantly.

The Taoist morale was not enough, he snatched the bowl and took a big sip, patted his chest and said, "Poisonous? You kid is clearly ......" Before he finished speaking, blood suddenly flowed from his right nostril.

The onlookers were in an uproar, and some even wanted to step forward and kick over the Taoist priest's belongings, but the woman also looked at the Taoist priest in surprise. Mei Ziyan stopped everyone and said to the Taoist priest:

"Aren't you going to know how to do it? How about making a way to eliminate disasters and cure diseases for yourself?"

The Taoist priest covered his nose and fled, before leaving, he glanced back at Mei Ziyan fiercely, and threw the peach wood sword in his hand at her hard, Mei Ziyan was about to dodge sideways, and was suddenly dragged into a person's arms by a force, the person caught the wooden sword with one hand and threw it back, only to hear a scream from the Taoist priest, and the wooden sword was inserted into the back and fell to the ground in pain.

"Yan'er, I've got you!" the man chuckled in her ear, a hint of cruelty hidden in his pretended soft words.

"You-" As soon as Mei Ziyan raised her eyes and saw him, her face changed suddenly, and she broke away from his arms with all her strength, but the tighter she was restrained by him, she couldn't help but be annoyed:

"Hengqing, let go of me!"

"Let go of you," Hengqing let go of her, watching her walk to the woman who was stunned on the spot and say a few words to her, then took out the child's hand and pressed the pulse, "Anyway, you can't leave this time." ”

With a wave of his hand, the guards behind him quickly formed an encirclement, Mei Ziyan glanced at Hengqing, with a look of contempt, comforted the woman after opening the prescription, and then walked to Hengqing, who was wearing a brocade robe and jade belt, and said:

"Dongfang Gongzi has such a big battle, I don't know what to do with Aunt Ben?"

"Yan'er ran away from the marriage in private, and left Tiandu for a long time, and I was so worried in my heart," he took a step closer, his gaze lingered on her dusty face, and he reached out to touch her face and was avoided by her without a trace, his hand stopped in mid-air awkwardly, gritted his teeth and withdrew his hand, smiled at her, and said:

"Yan'er, Hengqing missed you that day, and I often regret it in my midnight dreams. Now goodbye, there is chaos here, and it is not very peaceful, so naturally I will not let you go again. Come, bring Miss Mei to the carriage for my son!"

Dongfang Hengqing's carriage was luxurious and spacious, and it didn't look like rushing to the front line at all. Mei Ziyan was tied with her hands behind her back and couldn't move, Hengqing poured a small cup of tea and put it to her mouth, she avoided it and looked at him in disgust.

"Yan'er is not obedient, she injured two soldiers with gold needles and poisonous powder, otherwise how could I treat you like this?" He drank all the tea in his cup, "I am going to the army to serve as a supervisor, what is Mu Cheng? I don't think he dares to show his teeth and claws in front of me! Want to support Dongfang Xiuwen? My aunt has made me the head of the family, who dares to object? You go with me obediently, maybe I can let you see him!"