The night sky outside the small courtyard was gray, the drizzle was falling, the breeze shuttled in the small courtyard, stopped on the roof window, the candle flame in the room jumped, entangled the figures of Duan Xifeng and Kou Zhongyuan, like ink dyed rice paper, the snow-white rice paper was polluted, a twisted and hideous abstract painting suddenly came into view, and then the candle flame returned to the original, the figures of the two separated, Duan Xifeng is Duan Xifeng, Kou Zhongyuan is Kou Zhongyuan.

Kou Zhongyuan looked back at Duan Xifeng, and said after a while: "Thank you for reminding me." ”

"You're welcome. Duan Xifeng replied.

"Xifeng, do you also think I'm a spy from Nanliang?" Kou Zhongyuan unconsciously took a step forward, getting closer to Duan Xifeng, but the shadows of the two were far away.

Duan Xifeng, who had been lowering his head to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, raised his head slightly, looked at Kou Zhongyuan, and shook his head gently: "You're not, it's just that sometimes you don't speak in a way and don't pay much attention to it." ”

Kou Zhongyuan's smile spread from the corners of his mouth to his eyes, and finally rippled on the tips of his eyebrows, frozen in a hint of relief: "West Wind, do you remember when you were a child?"

Duan Xifeng lowered his head and continued to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, nodded, and naturally remembered.

Kou Zhongyuan also remembers that both of them are orphans, they entered Zhuge Wei's door at the age of ten, and they also met when they were ten years old, and they were the only disciples of Zhuge Weiwei who were born out of nowhere, the two were slightly different when they were young, but their hearts were not obvious, Zhuge Weiwei treated them equally, broadened their horizons, let the two eat and live together, almost inseparable, Duan Xifeng was quiet, Kou Zhongyuan loved to make trouble, in the room where the bed was up, Duan Xifeng read and wrote, Kou Zhongyuan held a wooden sword hehehaha, constantly waving, naturally, everything was cleaned in the room, all were done by Duan Xifeng, and Kou Zhongyuan rushed in front of him to fight。

In the future, the two of them were a little older, Zhuge Wei and I began to teach according to their aptitude, to teach Duan Xifeng with the overall situation, and to teach Kou Zhongyuan with the treacherous transportation of troops, the drill of the large corps is not easy, Duan Xifeng often "talks on paper" on the sand table, and the opponents are all senior generals of Western Chu, often Duan Xifeng fights dozens of people without falling behind, although Duan Xifeng has not had actual results in the joint operation of the large corps, but the whole of Western Chu knows that Duan Xifeng is the best candidate to take over as generalissimo Zhao Xuanji. As for Kou Zhongyuan, Zhuge Wei often teaches in a free-range way, 3,000 men and horses, 6,000 border rogues, go! Kou Zhongyuan led the army to go and personally polished the battlefield, several times his life and death hung by a thread, and gradually changed from less victory and more defeat to more victory and less defeat, Kou Zhongyuan is a good general polished out of the battlefield, which is rare.

When the two were eighteen years old, Zhuge Wei called the two to his side, let the two go out of the palace to live alone, Kou Yuan chose a big house with three entrances and three exits, and asked for no less than a dozen little maids to serve, even the housekeeper and doorman are also beautiful girls, unique in the whole world, and people can't help laughing. He excitedly told Duan Xifeng about his "big deal", thinking that his good brother would be very happy and move in with him. Duan Xifeng chose a small courtyard, Kou Zhongyuan felt betrayed, and angrily came to the small courtyard selected by Duan Xifeng, the small courtyard had been taken care of and extremely tidy. Kou Zhongyuan kicked and punched, making the small courtyard a mess, Duan Xifeng was not annoyed, and took care of it all over again, so angry that Kou Zhongyuan scolded and was helpless. In the days that followed, Kou Zhongyuan would come to the courtyard from time to time to toss, as if this could soothe the anger in his heart.

"Xifeng, when the Northern Wei Dynasty booby-trapped the Lantai Domain, you and I were ambushed between the two defense lines of the Zhenxi Army, do you remember the question I once asked you?" Kou Zhongyuan stood in front of the door, a distance of one zhang and a table from Duan Xifeng.

"I don't remember. Duan Xifeng said lightly.

Kou Zhongyuan smiled silently: "You have a great memory, you can't forget, you don't have to avoid my question, I asked at that time, if Mr. asked you to die, will you go?"

Duan Xifeng was silent for a moment: "Mr. is my father." ”

"Well, that's your answer, and it's in line with your style, you've always done things well, I'm not as good as you. Kou Zhongyuan nodded: "I remember that day, I also said that I don't want to enter the Central Plains in the future, and when I am crowned the king and worship the general, I can only pour wine in front of your grave, which will be very boring." ”

"I remember it. Duan Xifeng said: "It's extremely appropriate, so the memory is still fresh." ”

Kou Zhongyuan smiled faintly, stretched out one hand into the rain, and let the drizzle hit his hand: "West Wind, if I am a spy of Nanliang, what will you do?"

"Open one eye, close one eye, and let you go. ”

Kou Zhongyuan sighed: "But in the future, you and I will definitely meet on the battlefield, what should we do then?"

"Life and death are fateful, and wealth is in the sky. ”

Kou Zhongyuan nodded: "This is also very appropriate. Xifeng, you are careful, if you don't remind me of Da Chu and Xi Chu's slip of the tongue just now, I will leave Xichu tonight and disappear into the world, but you just mention it, then I have to take something and leave. ”

The temperature in the room seemed to drop down suddenly, the drizzle outside suddenly turned into a heavy rain of beans, the wind blew the raindrops into the room obliquely, Kou Zhongyuan's front clothes were wet, the candle flame seemed to be covered by a hand, suddenly gray, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and suddenly disappeared, the gray light seemed to be about to die The old man of the wind candle had gained new vitality from the wood, and suddenly brightened.

Kou Zhongyuan had already come to Duan Xifeng, the two were only three feet apart, Kou Zhongyuan slashed at each other's necks with a knife, and Duan Xifeng slowly fell into Kou Zhongyuan's arms in a stunned face.

"I'm sorry, Zephyr, but there are some things that matter of principle and I have to do them. ”

Helping Duan Xifeng to leave the courtyard, there was already a carriage waiting outside the door for a long time, and the owner of the wine shop looked at the scene in front of him in surprise: "Childe, this is?"

"The situation has changed, immediately leave Luoyang City with Duan Xifeng, and I will stay. Kou Zhongyuan ordered, putting Duan Xifeng into the carriage.

"But, Childe ......"

"No, however, sending a section of the west wind away is the best solution, and I will take care of the rest of the things together. Kou Zhongyuan snatched the horsewhip from the hand of the owner of the liquor store and smashed it on the horse's buttocks, and the carriage disappeared into the night like a sword off the string.

Kou Zhongyuan wiped the rain on his face, turned around and returned to the small courtyard, looked left and right, first cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks in the room, and then walked into the kitchen to take care of the top and bottom.

Walking to the desk, Kou Zhongyuan studied the ink and moistened the pen, picked up the pen and wrote a few lines on the spread rice paper, knocked over the inkstone seemingly meaninglessly, and quietly left the small courtyard.