The straight-line distance from the capital, as long as you pass through a big city, because there is Lin Ziyue, you don't have to waste time on those winding official roads, but it will take five days to reach the destination at the earliest, and the time for repairing on the road is only a week, otherwise it is difficult to say whether a few horses were tired to death or Lin Ziyue was tired first, she has begun to lose her ability to use mental power to control plants every day to open the way, after all, it is all mountain roads.

These days, as Fang Ze's injuries have improved, his popularity among the group has plummeted.

I saw him sacrifice himself and forget his life and save the group of people he didn't know, although he didn't say it, but even Yan Crow admired him. But since Fang Ze was able to get up and start talking, even Lin Ziyue would be disgusted when he looked at him because of this person's flamboyant tongue.

Fang Xue is an old oilman after all. This is what Xuanyuan Yan said when he commented on him, in front of Fang Xuan, although these two people have some similar temperaments, but Xuanyuan Yan's laziness is many times more reliable in comparison.

The more stubborn Fang Ze's face became, the more honest and honest Fang Gu's child became, in this contrast, everyone became more and more tolerant of Fang Gu, who often apologized for his master, and he and Tang Lingling got along more and more, and they spent more and more time together. These two people can often be seen driving side by side, Fang Gu holding the rope, Tang Lingling chattering with him, sometimes Fang Gu is asking Tang Lingling the story of the mountain gate, sometimes Tang Lingling is asking Fang Gu about the life of the rivers and lakes.

The one who was most keenly aware of this kind of pink bubble was Yu Qianrong, she had just lost her temper at Fang Ze, who was cheap, which caused Fang Gu to apologize again and again, and then Tang Lingling protected Fang Gu, and also said "I'm sorry" to her senior sister, so that Yu Qianrong didn't feel her head for a while.

But the love brain is still the fastest in this regard.

As a result, when Yu Qianrong went to find Lin Ziyue to gossip, Lin Ziyue just stared at her confused eyes: "Aren't they just in a good relationship?"

Yu Tianrong looked up to the sky and sighed: "Xuanyuan Yu chased you, and I don't know which life it was the sin." ”

Since then, Yu Qianrong's eyes always look at Xuanyuan Yu with pity, which makes Xuanyuan Yu full of inexplicability.

But Yu Qianrong had more opportunities to find Fang Gu's stubble, and as a result, Fang Gu was speechless by her lecture or teasing, and then Fang Xue became angry, and spoke for Fang Gu in turn.

Yu Qianrong was even more polite: "Yo, I thought you were really unreasonable, knowing that others hated you? Now use it to teach me a lesson? Seriously, who can't see your thoughts? I just disdain you to be so annoying, because no matter what we think, we are not all the way with you, understand? You and Fang Gu have no reason to stay, just get together and disperse when you get to the capital, put away your thoughts, that's my junior sister, I will rest assured that she will go with you? Naturally, I won't allow Fang Gu to follow Lingling!"

Tang Lingling was extremely confused, but after Yu Qianrong bit her ear and explained in a few words, Tang Lingling lost her temper at Fang Gu with red eyes, and the other party chose to stay away.

As a result, in the last two days, Fang Gu and Tang Lingling looked depressed, they were very embarrassed when they saw each other, Fang Xue became extremely silent, and the people in the team were no longer harassed by those messy words, and the fish was angry, but they never managed to persuade Tang Lingling.

In this way, on the last night before arriving in the capital, Lin Ziyue still decided to talk.

At least I have to tell Fang Xue that they have to go to the ring with great fanfare next, and they can't let this ranger who hides his chivalrous heart behind a mask take risks with his own people, although his move of helping his apprentice brush up his impression score is very fake, but Lin Ziyue doesn't think that his starting point is bad, I'm afraid it's still to ask for a good future for his apprentice and at the same time ask for peace of mind for himself.

Out of the corner of his eye, when he caught a glimpse of Lin Ziyue dragging Fang Xue out of the bonfire and into the dim depths of the woods, Xuanyuan Yu crushed the kettle he was holding in his hand.

Meng Li patted him on the shoulder: "Let's go." ”

"Let's go...... What?"

Yan Yao landed on Meng Li's shoulder, his eyes were full of mockery: "If you don't go, let's go, let's go Meng Li." ”

Then Meng Li also got into the woods, and naturally there were shadows around the two of them, and Xuanyuan Yu gritted his teeth and hurriedly followed.

The dark forest sounded the scream of the night owl from time to time, and the nearby Lin Ziyue they checked during the day, there were no magical beasts, and the places close to the capital were also close to the big mountain gates of the Mirror Flower Villa, and the monsters that ran out of the cracks were naturally cleaned up.

There was no moonlight tonight, only a faint star rubbing their sleepy eyes in the shade of the trees, occasionally glancing at the world, pulling through the clouds and covering their faces, and falling into a distant and endless sleep. The evening breeze was like the whistling of those night owls, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, but it never covered the sound of the two of them stepping on the grass under their feet, Lin Ziyue and Fang Xue were silent, allowing those night owls to swear their territorial rights.

Although Lin Ziyue dragged him here, Fang Xue opened his mouth first: "What's that...... Verbally taking advantage of you is really a joke. ”

"Hmm. ”

Lin Ziyue didn't speak, turned around and looked at Fang Ze quietly, even if it was a moonless night, Fang Ze always felt that there was a layer of moonlight in her eyes, Fang Ze actually always had a subconscious avoidance attitude towards Lin Ziyue, he didn't know why, maybe it was because Lin Ziyue always had an indifferent and soft gaze, or it could be because Lin Ziyue was too unfathomable, he opened his eyes to see it again when others weren't paying attention, and he only focused on Lin Ziyue's life alone...... But Fang Xue didn't see anything, he didn't see a little past or future of this person, and his eyes were almost blinded, so he was always wary and suspicious of Lin Ziyue.

Fang Xue didn't know what to say, this environment and Lin Ziyue's attitude made him very depressed: "So...... Excuse me?"

"Why?"

"Well, I'm not welcome if you ask me that, because I'm getting close to you in all sorts of stinky and shameless ways, thinking that I want to be closer to you and make the little apprentice have no worries about food and clothing...... Actually, I really want to join you. Not to mention the two little girls from the Flower Dynasty Sect, the atmosphere of the Qizong is really good, more pure than any mountain gate I have ever seen, it seems that it is more because of goals and aspirations coming together, rather than because of any practice exercises or a gang of interests gathered. ”

Lin Ziyue didn't speak, Fang Xue stubbornly continued: "Fang Gu is still young, he shouldn't follow me as a ranger." ”

"But you're not that old. Although I haven't been with you for a long time, I can see that Fang Guda respects you as a master from the bottom of his heart. His maintenance of you these days, I don't believe you can't feel it. ”

"He's him, I'm me, and he can't go my way just because he treats me as a parent. This has never been his life choice, if it weren't for being expelled from the mountain gate, almost being beaten to death on the street for stealing leftover steamed buns from a restaurant, experiencing these life epiphanies, knowing that one day counts as a day, how would I be mixed up today?"

"Fang Gu is different, he was also brought up by you. Lin Ziyue was a little puzzled, it was not difficult for Fang Zhi to pass on these little wisdom or small means to Fang Gu, why was he so reluctant? Fang Gu was obviously willing to learn, and had always hoped to be a ranger like her master, she didn't believe that Fang Xue didn't know, it was clear that Fang Xue deliberately protected this child so well, and even made Fang Gu often seem stunned about human feelings.

Fang Xue scratched his head, and sat down on several roots and cocked Erlang's legs: "Can this be the same? I can't teach myself how delicious that fool is after eating too much filth! This is not delicious! He always sees how beautiful and chivalrous I am, and this is his worship psychology!"

"So now that someone else has diverted his attention, you want to push Fang Gu to Tang Lingling, or even push us this 'Divergent Sect', right?"

Fang Xue tilted his head, looked at the blackened treetops, and looked at the night sky outside the treetops: "The wrong path is difficult but the scenery is beautiful, and that little girl ...... It's really good. ”

The two of them were empty for a long time, as if they were giving those night owls a while to show their singing voices, and gradually, the night owls seemed to be tired, and their voices were much lower, as if they were eavesdropping on the follow-up of this conversation.

Fang Xue was very uneasy: "You don't plan to accept Fang Gu, do you? I should have known, and yes, as the fish girl said, we weren't ...... all the way."

"I'm not going to take your thoughts, because it's idiotic. ”

Although he didn't quite understand the meaning of "idiot", Fang Ze subconsciously felt that Lin Ziyue was scolding himself: "Hey! If you want to fight, I'll accompany you! I don't care about this gentleman's creed with women!"

Lin Ziyue squatted down and looked squarely at Fang Ze, her action made Fang Ze's hairs stand on end in an instant.

"Fang Ze, is that what Fang Gu wants when you make a decision for Fang Gu like this?"

Poked into the darkness of his heart, Fang Ze's anger suddenly came up, and instantly suppressed the strange horror brought by Lin Ziyue's questioning, he yelled at her: "I know what is for his good! That child was brought up by me! Of course I have to decide what his life is to make more reliable choices for him! What is a ranger, don't you know as an adult! This is a storyteller fooling an ignorant child! It's not a profession at all! I can't get on the stage at all——"

"But he liked it. Lin Ziyue directly interrupted Fang Xuan: "Fang Gu is not a pet, he is a person with his own thoughts." No matter how you protect him, he will still grow up day by day, and he will eventually have to follow his own path, even if that path is to be a ranger, when you feel ashamed of the wandering knight, that is also the choice he desires. ”

Lin Ziyue's eyes were blazing: "You are for his good, but if you force him to accept the life or fate you have arranged, will he blame you when he looks back one day?"

"What do you know! This has nothing to do with you! My apprentice, don't I understand! I want you to point fingers here and accuse me of things! Even if I can't let him join the sect, I must let him enter the mountain gate! That is the way out in a decent way, and only then can he have a better future! That is the direction he should go forward!"

Fang Ze's face was flushed with anger, like a tomato that had turned green to ripe, revealing the overripe smell of the inside, sour and rotten.

Lin Ziyue wiped the saliva that was sprayed on the side of her face, took two steps back, and straightened up: "Of course I know, I resent the person who arranged my destiny for me, but I also knew that it was for my good, so I chose a more difficult path, I want to prove it to him, I can find my direction myself, my road may be full of dangers, and I will even lose my life one day, but I am very satisfied." ”

"Divergent sect is everything I encounter along my own path, this is the wrong path, it may lead to light or darkness, but there is no absolute darkness or light in the world, and the journey is full of adventures. Don't you think so, too? The wrong path is difficult but the scenery is beautiful......"

"That's different! I don't want that kid to go astray like me! This path is not good for him, it will only make him more and more depraved and sinking! He doesn't know what a normal person's life should be like! How sad is this kind of life! If it weren't for it, if there was still Fang Gu, maybe I would be a biological child in some damn town, and be a dart walker-"

"Lying. ”

Lin Ziyue's voice made the forest silent for a while, those night owls were timid, shrunk farther away and whispered, but they didn't dare to make a sound again, they were originally a group of birds that belonged to the shadows, how could they show their heads when the momentum fell?

"I'm not lying. Fang Xue's eyes also reddened, although he tried his best to pretend to be calm and indifferent, not wanting to let himself fall in front of Lin Ziyue, but his voice trembled more and more.

Lin Ziyue's eyes showed that faint compassion again, not referring to the pain of scolding the heavens and the earth, but it was extremely profound: "You yourself are reluctant to live as a ranger, you know how vast the world is outside, but you always feel that it is not suitable for Fang Gu's character." You arranged the future for him, and you wanted to lock Fang Gu, why didn't it because you wanted to let yourself go?"

Fang Ze's body trembled suddenly, he no longer felt that Lin Ziyue was a monster, she must be a monster, otherwise why did he pull his most obscure and dark thoughts out of his bones with every word?

Lin Ziyue continued: "You want to enjoy the freedom of the sea and the sky by yourself, but you pin your own apprentice to the cage alive, although you keep saying that it is for his good, but you know it in your own heart! You know what you are doing!"

She paused: "You just want Fang Gu to live another life that he might have, without thinking about whether he wants it or not. Yes, this is not fair, but it is also for Fang Gu's good, but at least you should let Fang Gu understand what you mean by doing this. ”

Fang Ze's eyes drooped, and he said with difficulty: "I don't want him to hate me, but he ...... How can you understand me when you're so young and so stupid?"

"If you refuse to explain these things to him, how can he understand you? If you let go of your hands in the early years and let Fang Gu come into contact with both the beauty and the darkness in both sides of things, he will naturally understand his choice better, and at that time, whether he is an 'ordinary person' or a 'ranger', he will be a person who knows the world and can live the life he wants. ”

Lin Ziyue stretched out his hand to Fang Ze: "You can't accompany him for a lifetime, but I don't want to see him hate you for a lifetime." ”

Fang Xue took her hand and stood up: "I'm just his master." ”

"He sees you as his own father, so you're not just a master and apprentice, aren't you?"

Relatives? Fang Xue smiled self-deprecatingly, and after listening to Lin Ziyue's words, he opened a window in those dark thoughts in his heart, and outside the window was a torrential rain, a violent wind, and a seven-colored rainbow bridge after the rain. Letting go of the overprotection of Fang Gu, Fang Xue didn't let go of the heavy burden and worries he had been carrying.

For better or worse, let him go for himself.

Fang Xue asked Lin Ziyue again: "You just said that you used to resent the person who arranged your fate...... Is that the same now?"

Lin Ziyue nodded: "I know he is for my good, but I can't forgive him." All I can do is help him make the corrections he needs to make, so that the world will be less clouded by him, and make up for some of the mistakes he made for me. ”

Fang Ze smiled bitterly: "Isn't this forgiveness?"

The screams of the night owl in the forest sounded again, one after another, as if urging Lin Ziyue to answer quickly, and as if she wanted to overshadow Lin Ziyue's voice and make her shut up completely.

"The predecessors are the cause, and the descendants are the effect, but there are mistakes and mistakes, which is not a shameful thing. Isn't it more important to make amends for those tragedies before there will be greater turmoil in the future than to remember the past?"

"You can't just say it. Fang Ze was confused.

"I have a grudge, but I don't know how to revise the past, so I can only have a better mindset for the future and try to get the future out of those bleak days. With this in mind, I still focus on the big picture. ”

Fang Ze smiled, and was a little gloomy by the moonlight in Lin Ziyue's hand, but he didn't hide the ridicule inside: "The overall situation is important, it's really like what a gentleman said." ”

"Think about it, I've never been a gentleman. Lin Ziyue also smiled, very relaxed, just as gentle as she usually was: "I am a human being, I have seven emotions and six desires, interests and self, I have double standards, selfishness and a sense of justice, and I will not deny these, the gentleman is me, and the villain is also me." ”

"No one is perfect, but what is the difference between you judging me with morality like this and kidnapping a ticket?" Fang Ze muttered very harshly, he knew that his vague avoidance of Lin Ziyue would no longer appear, but he really couldn't help but scare her thoughts.

The moonlight in Lin Ziyue's hand did not dissipate, she raised her hand, and the moon blade flew up lightly, floating in front of her, illuminating the way back for the two.

"If you can convince you, it's not called moral kidnapping—it's called persuasion!" she laughed wantonly, unable to hide her smugness.

Fang Xue glared at her fiercely: "I really don't mind fighting with you!"

"You can't beat me. ”

Fang Ze's face sank, like a bitter melon: "What a villain!"

"Originally, people will change, and opinions will naturally change. If you have this leisure, think carefully about how to teach Fang Gu when you go back. We will never take you with us, and then we will go to Dongsheng Dabi to pick up things, and it will definitely be dangerous for you to be with us. ”

"Miss Lin. ”

"Huh?"

"Thank you. Fang Ze's voice was a little vague and reluctant.

"No, it's you who want to change, and we're here to take your chance. But if this change falls on you, I think it is more important than falling on Fang Gu. That child is still centered on you and is an example. ”

Fang Xue nodded, he could already see the warm red in front of him through the forest: "We'll find a way to contact you again." If you encounter a big disaster one day, please inform Fang and let Fang make the best of this night's friendship. ”

"Don't be stupid, if I have a problem that is not solved and I still call you, it means that you have come to be solved by the trouble. ”

The white moon blade in front of Lin Ziyue dissipated, and only darkness remained around the two of them, and the night owl nested in the invisible branches, still making strange screams, and those voices came from all directions, as if they were going to devour the two people.

But in front of them was the campfire, which shone through the light of the trunks of the trees, warm, bright red, and bright.