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Ye Wujian didn't buy a sword, although the monsters of Ye Wujian and the others were relatively proficient in all weapons, but the strength of Ye Wujian and the others did not depend on weapons.

Ye Wujian bought a good horse and left Taicheng with Lingling. Ling Ling was a little unhappy, but he didn't complain about Ye Wuji's decision on his own. And Ye Wujian felt that Lingling must know that sooner or later the two of them would leave Taicheng and leave the baked cake shop, but due to the insertion of the 'Jusheng Society', my popularity suddenly rose, although it has not yet reached the level of the palace's attention, but leaving has become an inevitable trend. Her displeasure was just reluctance to give up on the carefree days of the two.

In fact, Ye Wujian is the same.

Thinking about the last time I left Taicheng, it was two and a half months ago, and those who tracked me should have completely missed my tracks. This time is also approaching the time limit agreed by the two 'Taiheng Mountain'. Now that I think about it, not only will Ziri not go to Taiheng Mountain, but I'm afraid Ye Wujian won't be able to go either. After all, the time is too short, return to Peach Blossom Village, and then have a casual time with Lingling, and the appointment of 'Taiheng Mountain' will be missed.

After the two of them left Taicheng, it may be because they had nothing to do along the way, Lingling missed the samurai very much, and along the way he always wondered why the disappeared samurai hadn't appeared. Counting the days, the warrior left Lingling a month before Ye Wujian escaped from the palace, and now he hasn't gone back for more than three months, he hasn't sent a letter, he hasn't found someone to send a message, and there is no news at all. Ling Ling mentioned to Ye Wujian many times that she was actually very grateful to the warriors.

After the samurai brought Ye Wujian to the palace, he returned to Peach Blossom Village to find Lingling, and he asked Lingling for the short dagger that represented the identity of 'dragon scales' from Lingling. In exchange, the samurai also took Lingling out of Peach Blossom Village and came to Taicheng, and found a fairly stable baked cake shop for Lingling outside Taicheng, giving Lingling hope and taking care of Lingling for seven years. Now that I think about it, Ye Wujian should really thank the samurai, that is, the 'dragon scales' of the four princes of the previous generation, and the heavenly burial. In addition, Ye Wujian learned another thing from Lingling, that is, when he returned to Peach Blossom Village after the heavenly burial, he actually sat with Lao Li and talked for a long time. This made Ye Wujian have to guess, in fact, they had known each other for a long time, even before the heavenly burial had not seen Ye Wuji. Now that I think about it, the glance I looked at Lao Li when I was buried in Peach Blossom Village to pick up Ye Wuqian and leave, it was really a complicated and amorous look. Although they didn't recognize each other immediately at that time, and they pretended not to know each other very tacitly, just by that kind of look in their eyes, Ye Wujian could guess that they must have a good relationship.

In addition, Ye Wujian really wanted to know what the situation of the previous generation of 'dragon scales' who released Ye Wujian from the palace was now. After all, he taught Ye Wujian for seven years, and it was all hatred, it was definitely impossible. And from the moment he left the palace, Ye Wujian had never hated them, and Ye Wujian had long known that neither the fate of the two nor their fate could be controlled by the two of them at will.

The two of them didn't encounter any obstacles along the way, and Ye Wujian and Lingling both thought a lot. Because of the appearance of horses on this journey, the journey of the two has also been much faster. Soon the two of them arrived at 'Xuhuan Town'.

Although he had been to 'Xuhuan Town' before, he was very vague about its exact appearance, and he only remembered the sad history of this town in his mind, and the regretful life that the owner of the only inn in 'Xuhuan Town' told Ye Wuqian about. I don't know if the boss will be able to recognize Ye Wujian when he returns to that inn.

Ye Wujian and Lingling led the horse and walked on the streets of Xuhuan Town, because it was the only inn, Ye Wujian quickly inquired about the address. Lingling was surprised that although this town was not big, there was only one inn. Ye Wujian said that this was once a dead city, and it was already good to have someone again. Ling Ling still couldn't understand, she felt that even if it was a dead city, after more than ten years of recovery, it should have some vitality, and it shouldn't be as lifeless as it is now. With such an atmosphere of self-abandonment, how can life be full of sunshine.

The two of them found the inn and met the diminutive boss again, who was still alone, and more emaciated and older than he had been seven years earlier. It seems that the passage of time has not erased his grief over the loss of his loved ones.

The boss didn't recognize Ye Wuji, and the whole person looked a lot decadent, and he didn't even pile up the perfunctory smile he had seven years ago. just smiled politely at the two of them, even if it was a greeting. Ye Wujian found that although the business of the boss's store was still not good this time, at least there were still some customers.

Coincidentally, the room arranged by the boss for the two of them was the one where Ye Wujian and the samurai lived at the beginning. Nothing has changed here, the boss who is also in grief and a little mentally disturbed, and the room where the teacups have not even changed. Not even the position of the stool where the samurai had sat all night had not changed. Seven years has passed, and it is really like the next day.

When night fell, Ye Wujian said hello to Lingling and walked out of the room alone.

When he walked to the door of the inn, as Ye Wujian expected, the boss was still sitting alone at the door, smoking his own pole cigarette and looking at the sky in a daze.

Ye Wujian sat next to him, and the boss suddenly reacted and nodded in surprise to Ye Wuji. Ye Wujian smiled and said, "Boss, do you really not know me?"

The boss stared at my face and frowned for a long time: "Little brother, I really think you are very familiar, but I just can't remember where I have seen you." Has my brother lived in our store before?

Ye Wujian said: "I have lived." ”

The boss said, "When?"

Ye Wujian said: "Seven years ago. Came with a man in his thirties. At that time, I was young, and I was only so tall. ”

The boss frowned and thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't remember that there was such a person as Ye Wuji. Then he smiled with relief and said: "Little brother, don't mind, I have been in a trance in the past few years, and my head has become more and more inflexible, and many people forget it the next day." At first glance, the little brother is a noble man from the big city, but he didn't expect to remember us little people in the countryside.

Ye Wujian said: "I don't mind, I don't mind, but I'm not a noble person in a big city." I am from Peach Blossom Village.

Ye Wujian obviously saw that the emotion in the boss's eyes was wrong, and he said, "Peach Blossom Village...... , that peach blossom village in Liangcheng?

Ye Wujian said: "Yes." ”

The boss frowned and said, "Little brother is going back to Peach Blossom Village this time?"

Ye Wujian said: "Yes." ”

The boss then looked around nervously, and then whispered to Ye Wuji: "Little brother, don't go back." Don't tell anyone anymore that you're going back to Peach Blossom Village. Peach Blossom Village was raided by the government three years ago. There is no Peach Blossom Village anymore.

Ye Wujian was taken aback and asked, "How can this be?"

The boss continued: "Three years ago, I don't know who found out that at least half of the people in Taohua Village were actually key criminals from the imperial court. There were a lot of soldiers in the imperial city, and they surrounded and suppressed Peach Blossom Village, and I heard that those soldiers first made a mosquito in the village unable to fly in, and then sent people to slaughter it, and finally set fire to the entire village. I'm afraid Peach Blossom Village is...... Not a single one survived.

Ye Wujian was shocked and couldn't speak. The boss patted me on the shoulder and comforted Ye Wujian and said, "If you go back to see your relatives, I'm afraid you've already ...... Child, listen to me, don't go back, go back now, and if the people in the government find out, they will be arrested as fugitives and fellow party members. ”

Lao Li will definitely not die. Ye Wujian thought of the resolute man who was taciturn. He wouldn't die so easily. If it was Ye Wuji, in that case, I am afraid that he could easily replace one of the soldiers, and then escape in troubled waters.

Lao Li will never die.

Ye Wujian was silent for a long time. The boss let out a long sigh and persuaded Ye Wujian to say, "Child, let's mourn and change." I think that's how I came back in the first place. My wife and kids ......"

Ye Wujian looked at the boss, the boss smiled at Ye Wuji, his eyes began to glow with tears, he looked at the endless distance of the sky, and said slowly in a tired voice: "How many years, there have been seventeen years, my story has to start from seventeen years ago......"

Just like seven years ago, Ye Wujian sat on the bench in front of the inn with the boss, he held a cigarette in his hand, and under the dim sky, he told Ye Wujian the last story of his life. The history of the destruction of the entire town of Xuhuan overnight. The boss's life was also completely destroyed from that time.

It's just different from seven years ago, when the boss told Ye Wujian a story, it was sunrise, and this time it was sunset.

After the story was told, the boss had already begun to cry slender tears. Ye Wujian had already heard this story, and he was not too involved, and he couldn't grieve with his boss because he had another thing in mind.

Ye Wujian waited for the boss to ease up for a while and asked, "Boss, your business here seems to be better than before, there was not a single guest here when I came here before, and now there seem to be other customers in this store besides us?"

The boss barely managed to squeeze out a smile and said, "That's right." In addition to you, there is a large family living in our store.

Ye Wujian asked in a low voice: "Where did the big family come from, what are you doing in our poor and remote place?"

The boss wiped away his tears and said, "It's strange to say, these people came to my store more than two months ago. I've been living here for more than two months and have never left. I didn't ask them, and they just said they were waiting. It was also very strange for these people to come, there were two of them, one was Yushu Lingfeng, and there was a kingly aura between his eyebrows. The other man was a little old, fifty or sixty years old, but the whole person was very energetic, and his eyes were fierce. It gives people a sense of not being angry and self-assured. The others are like the entourage of these two people, but they are all in good spirits, and they are not ordinary people at first glance. But apart from these two people, the retinues around them change frequently, and I haven't seen those disappeared retinues go out, and I don't know why those retinues disappeared. The two men seemed calm and unconcerned.

Ye Wujian said: "It's not too early, boss, you should rest early." ”

The boss said, "Yes. ”

Ye Wujian stood up, suddenly thought of something, and said, "Boss, have you ever thought about opening another branch?"

The boss smiled and said: "In this poor and remote place, no one comes, and the business of Ye Wujian is not very good, so where do you need to open a branch." ”

Ye Wujian said: "No, no, no, it's not here, you can go to the Imperial City to open a branch." ”

The boss looked at Ye Wujian in surprise: "Imperial City?"

Ye Wujian said: "Boss, your life ended here seventeen years ago, why do you stay here and keep deceiving yourself, you are just torturing yourself." It's better to simply welcome a new life, go to the place you yearn for, and welcome a new beginning in life. Fear...... This is also the result that your wife and children want to see the most, right? After all, the person who really loves you, even if he dies, hopes that you can live a better life.

The boss sat on a stool and was silent. Ye Wujian silently returned to the room.

When he returned to his room, he was already asleep in bed, probably because of the bumps in the road. Ye Wujian hurriedly sat on the stool where the warrior was sitting and closed his eyes, letting his soul slowly come out of his body.