"I hope that while I am alive, I can hear you say to me with my own ears that you like me too." Yuan Jue didn't wait for me to answer, but he smiled helplessly, "I know that you have me in your heart, but for some reason, you don't dare to admit it, I believe that one day, I will wait until you are willing to be honest with me about your heart, and I will hear you say with my own ears that you also care about me, just as I care about you." ”

And I was silent, not denying that his words had moved me, but I could not express the slightest thing. Ten years ago, I wasn't sure if the heart of the person in front of me could accommodate his ambition and me, and ten years later, I'm not sure if it's the person in front of me, whether I'm willing to let him suffer the same fate as Lord Chengsi.

Yuan Jue avoided my eyes and lowered his head, "The Yuan clan has begun to decay since my father was seriously ill. Yuan He was conceited, suppressed the different parties, dispersed all the forces that could compete with him one by one, and weakened the power in the hands of the Yuan clan, which made people panic, and the people of the Yuan clan were afraid, one day, Yuan He would listen to the slander and start to harm the bloodline. When he said this, he paused for a long time, his gaze became cloudy, "Niyin, I will embark on a journey again, Yuan He's means of suppressing the Yi tribe are too tough, so that several tribes of the Yi tribe will unite to resist, this will be a fierce battle, I don't know if I can come back." ”

So, did he want to say goodbye to me this time?

He said, waited for a while, I didn't know what to say to comfort him or encourage him, he just waited quietly, and then, his expression darkened little by little, and Yuan Jue finally stood up disappointed.

"Are you leaving?" I watched him lead the horse and asked with some concern.

"Yes, I came out of the barracks, I only have a moment, and it's time to go back." He was much more poised than he had been, and he hung the dragon sword on the saddle and straightened the saddle.

is no longer the young man in white back then, but a soldier in military uniform.

I got up and wanted to see him go.

Yuan Jue led the horse and walked a few steps forward, and suddenly let go of the reins in his hand and turned around. He strode already in front of my eyes, and before I could react, he reached out and grabbed me, and his lips had fallen on my lips.

There was a slight pain on my lips, and I came back to my senses before I realized what was going on, and I reached out and pushed him away, "I'm the master." ”

"I know." Yuan Jue still didn't care.

I reached out and wiped my lips gently, it turned out that he had just bit my lip hard, and his white fingers brushed his lips leaving a little red, I was angry, "Then you still ......"

"I've been waiting for ten years." He said, "Just to sue you as a man, my choice." ”

His eyes were unusually affectionate, like an endless sea, and a wave swept me to the bottom of the sea, and I struggled to catch my breath, and I struggled but could not escape the confinement of the sea.

"Now, I'm still waiting for you to sue me for your choice. I'm going to keep waiting. Yuan Jue pursed his thin lips and rolled the blood stains on his lips into the tip of his tongue, he looked at me, stopped talking, and then turned around and turned over on the horse.

He took the reins of the horse, and the horse galloped away with him.

I waited alone for five years, and he came in a hurry and left in a hurry.

I don't even know if he will come back in another five years.

That day, I watched him leave, but I couldn't do anything, didn't dare to do anything. After what happened to Master Cheng and Mrs. Cheng, I was afraid of God's curse, I was afraid of the curse, and I was afraid that the fate of those like them would finally fall on us. I was afraid, when I was still alive, I saw Yuan Jue fall into misfortune, and I was afraid that I would kill Yuan Jue because of my selfishness.

But since he left this time, I have become very unhappy, and I will even lose my temper under the pretext of it.

One night in a dream, I dreamed that Yuan Jue was standing in front of me covered in blood, and I stretched out my hand to grab him, but I couldn't catch him. He was covered in blood, covered in arrows, and wounded everywhere, and he stood there looking at me with the same eyes.

I'm so scared.

He was afraid he would die before I knew it.

I'm afraid he really won't come back. It turns out that when the heart is moving, you will start to be afraid of many things, and it turns out that the heart will make people timid. I packed up my things and went down the mountain overnight, but when I came out of Shaoshan again after ten years, I didn't know how to find him.

I only remember that Yuan Jue said that after Yuan He asked about politics, he was sent outside to lead troops. But the Yuan clan occupies so many cities, how can I know where Yuan Jue was sent? If you continue to ask one by one, I am afraid that by the time I find him, he will already be ......

I didn't dare to think about it anymore, so I had to hurry up and ask people.

Some people said that I had seen the army of the second prince in Yancheng, so I hurried to Yancheng, but the people in Yancheng said that the army of the second prince had already withdrawn from here, and I heard that it was going south. So I came out of Yancheng and searched all the way in the direction of the south.

From Yancheng to Micheng, from Micheng to Sucheng, and from Sucheng to Shaocheng...... There were always different people who told me that the army of the second prince went there, and finally, arrived in the cold city. In the latest news I got about Yuan Jue, Hancheng was the last city they were stationed in.

But when I arrived in the cold city, I was completely blinded.

The whole cold city is like a dead city, dead corpses, white bones, people and beasts can be seen everywhere, the cold city is dilapidated, ruins and broken tiles everywhere, and traces of fire abound. I saved a pair of grandchildren from behind the broken wall of a house whose roof had burned down. The white-haired old man was over seventy years old, so thin that he couldn't look good, his legs were deformed, his ankles were swollen, and the little girl he was holding in his arms was only two or three years old, so hungry that there was only one skin left, and the bones on his body were clearly protruding, and he fainted with thirst with a pair of yellowish eyes.

I gave them some food and water, and the old man chewed up the dry food with a little water, pulled it out of his teeth with his hands, and shoved it into the little girl's mouth.

I felt like I was holding a breath in my chest, and I was sad, I had never seen anyone so wolf.

The old man sued me, "...... This is our home, my son was conscripted by the government to fight, and he has not been heard from for two years, and he probably doesn't know where he died for a long time. Later, the famine, the daughter-in-law died of illness, the cold city was very close to the tribes of Yibu, the group of inhumane guys, they had to go into the city to search two or three times a day, and snatched away the rations of every household, and there was no food, people starved to death, and many people starved to death, and one died before it was buried, and then it didn't care about burying people at all, and the officials in the city sent people to drive ox carts to pull the dead people every morning and afternoon, and whoever died, they threw it on the cart, and everyone was dragged out of the city and thrown away. ”

As I listened to him, I thought of such a tragic scene, and I couldn't help frowning and feeling a chill in my heart.

"Later, there were too many dead people, and the whole cold city was surrounded by dead people who were thrown away, and in the summer, the whole cold city was stinky, and that was the smell of the dead. The river could not be drunk, and there was nothing to eat, and all the men in the city who could move were taken to fight, and there were only some old and weak women and children, who ran for their lives. We can't run, so we will stay here and wait for death......" The old man said desperately, his eyes were wrinkled and he could no longer wipe away his tears, he lowered his head and looked at the little girl in his arms who seemed to be awake, "Her mother is just sick and gone, poor my little granddaughter, and no relatives can leave here with her, and I watched her accompany me to die." There are too many dead man's cities in this world like Cold City......"

The breath I was holding in my heart couldn't be slowed down, and I finally understood why Yuan Jue hadn't come back in the past five years.

He was out with his troops, always looking at such a scene, no wonder he became so mature.

"Half a month ago, the second prince led troops to garrison this city, but I didn't expect that the night before yesterday, the leaders of many tribes in Yibu suddenly led people to attack the city, and the second son's reinforcements have not yet arrived, and hundreds of people are trapped in the city by thousands...... the old man said.

Second son? What he said was Yuan Jue. "Old man, what happened later? What happened? Yuan Jue, no, second son, how is the second son now? Say it. ”

"The people of the tribe of Yibe tied torches to arrows and shot them into the city, and everywhere there was a sea of fire, and those who could not escape were burned alive, and everywhere there were cries and shouts...... Later, it seems that there was a fine work in the barracks, and the city gates were opened, and those people were let in, and they fought in the city...... The army of the second prince was scattered, almost all of them died, and a few people were killed through the side door, and I don't know if they are dead or alive now. The old man was very sad when he talked about this helpless world.

"Girl," called the old man, "are you a fairy?" ”

I shook my head in denial, "I'm not, I'm just passing by." ”

The old man fell into a long despair again, and seeing that he wanted to cry several times without tears, and hugged the little girl who was about to die, he said in a trembling voice, "Girl, you don't look like a bad person, can you do one thing?" He held up the little girl with both hands, his arms were pitifully thin and trembling, "Take my little granddaughter away......

I was stunned, very surprised, "Old man, this ......"

How can this be, but ...... The old man's intention is not difficult to understand, he is just desperate to hope that the little girl can live, only when he raised the little girl with both hands, I noticed the little girl's strange appearance, reached out to grab the little girl's pulse and probed, suddenly, I felt the most desperate since I was conscious, "Old man, she ...... She was out of breath. ”

The little girl is dead.

When the old man stuffed the chewed food into her mouth, she didn't move, and it wasn't until the old man lifted the little girl up to me that I realized that the little girl was already cold, and she looked dead with her eyes open.

The old man listened, but he was not too surprised, he wanted to cry, but there were no tears, but he slowly withdrew his hand, and held the little girl tightly in his arms, he was trembling all over, and I could hear the whining sound coming from his mouth.

After a while, the old man's crying stopped, and the old man stopped moving.

I looked at the scene in front of me, and I only felt that the world was even more bleak, and I really couldn't do anything for them, so I leaned over and closed my eyes for their grandparents, and I raised my head, trying to shout out the breath that was stuffing in my chest, but I couldn't make a sound.

The tragic situation of this pair of grandchildren in the cold city made me even more eager to find Yuan Jue.

I continued to look out from the side gate of the cold city, and along the way I found the terrible situation of the refugees, who could not help but feed on the grass, trees, and soil, and some even cut the flesh of the dead bodies on the road to eat, and I actually had the illusion that it was not like being in the world, as if it was purgatory.

Yuan Jue's life and death are unknown, which is the driving force that has supported me to go on for days. I'm about to walk to the border of the Yuan clan, it's getting more and more chaotic here, and I finally entered Mangcheng, which is a relatively peaceful city under the rule of the troubled times, although it is not rich, but it is much quieter than the wars in the wilderness.

I finally heard passers-by outside a hospital about a mass grave outside the city, where the bodies of many soldiers had been discarded in the past few days.

Because the people in the city were poor, some people would go out and pick up some things and come back for their daily use. I saw that the person who said these words had a delicate totem painted on the flag picked up from the mass grave, although some of it was burned by the fire, some of it was mutilated, and the color was not clear, but I recognized it as the totem on the cuff of Yuan Jue's shirt, the unicorn.

Yuan Jue had mentioned that this was the guardian beast of their Yuan family. Since it is the divine beast totem of the Yuan family, then this flag must belong to the Yuan family, and I searched all the way, and the soldiers in the mass grave are most likely to be the sergeants who followed Yuan Jue.

"Uncle." I hurriedly grabbed the man and asked, "Uncle, where is the place where you picked up this flag, that mass grave?" ”

He thought I was going to grab his things, so he was in a hurry to hide them behind him, and pointed in one direction with one hand, "It's over there, and I walked out of the city, and I saw it when I passed a wood." But there was nothing left there, everything that could be used was robbed, only the dead. ”

"That'...... Did you see that...... The second son ......, "I can't bear to say any more, thinking that Yuan Jue may die, I feel that the sky is going to fall, but if the mass grave is really like what he said, there are only dead people......

"Second son?" The man thought for a while, "I haven't seen the second son, but in the past two days, there have been a lot of soldiers there, and they are all rotten, who can tell who is who, otherwise, you go and find it." ”

Yuan Jue, Yuan Jue, he will definitely not die.

I listened to him and ran in the direction he had just pointed. (To be continued.) )