Chapter VII: The Messenger
"Blue sea, green trees......"
The dim candlelight flickered faintly, and Mu Zixin curled up on the bed, holding a picture album with ground corners, the paper of the album was also a little damp, so thin that it seemed to turn into ashes with a slight twist, and the pictures on it were yellowed and the colors were unrecognizable.
She picked up the uncovered flask on the table next to the bed, glanced inside, shook it twice, and drank it all. As soon as she swallowed the wine, she coughed dryly twice, feeling like she was drinking a fire, burning from her throat to her stomach.
She gently set the album aside and stared at the gray ceiling for a moment. Bored, she picked up a white scarf beside her, gently threw it into the air, closed her eyes quietly, and raised her hands high in the direction where the scarf fell, the scarf slid through the skin between her arms and slowly fell onto her face.
"I didn't think you had ...... today"
A soft voice came from her ears, like a whisper, and she opened her hazy eyes and turned her head to the side, only to see a miserable white woman's face, her face covered with blood, her black curls wet on half of her face, and her eyes like black holes as if they were about to drag people into an endless abyss.
Mu Zixin sat up from the bed suddenly, opened his eyes wide, and tore off the white scarf covering his face, but there was nothing...... She was the only one in the room, she felt her breathing quicken, her heart beating rapidly, she looked down at the white scarf in her hand again, but to her horror found that her hands were also covered with blood, she instantly tore the scarf to pieces, and kept rubbing her hands.
"Are you okay?"
Hong Bin stood at the door and looked at her with some surprise, Mu Zixin was startled again, and looked at Hong Bin in surprise with a large basket of taro in his hand.
"I'm sorry, my lord, I should have knocked on the door first......"
"It's okay...... What are you doing here?"
"You saved me last time, I'm here to bring you some taro to eat, I know it's trivial, but I hope you like it...... That's a little bit of my heart. ”
"Okay, you can put it on the ground. ”
Hong Bin carefully put the basket on the ground, and when he turned around and was about to leave, he hesitated again.
"With all due respect, my lord, your face is not very good......"
"I know, don't worry about it, go back!"
"I think...... I wondered if I could do anything for you......"
"No! you can't do anything!"
Hong Bin was stunned for a moment, looked at her with some embarrassment, his two hands rubbed together at a loss, he bowed in a panic, turned around and ran out of the door, as if he was about to be eaten by Mu Zixin one step later. Mu Zixin looked at him in a panic, and looked down at his hand again, but there was nothing in his hand except for the white broken yarn.
"Hong Bin!" she rushed to the door and stopped him, "I'm sorry, I just ...... Alas, I must have drunk too much!"
Mu Zixin said hesitantly, this time it was her turn to stand on the stairs awkwardly, looking at the frightened Hong Bin.
"It's okay, sir, it's okay. ”
"Thank you taro. Mu Zixin said with some embarrassment. She suddenly came back to her senses, and there was almost no grass on the side, and she ate either brown rice or bacon, where did the taro come from?
"Hong Bin, where did you get this basket of taro?"
"I bought it from the city gate, and now it's bustling over there, because the sellers are coming, and there are ...... messengers."
Before he finished speaking, he found that in the blink of an eye, Mu Zixin had disappeared.
At the gate of the city, sure enough, there was a large group of soldiers and officers gathered around a carriage, and the carriage was piled up with all kinds of goods. The messenger stood in the carriage with a pile of letters in his hands, and a large crowd gathered around him, reaching out to him for his letters.
"Quiet! Quiet! Don't rob it! Come one by one! Xu Yue! Is there someone named Xu Yue?"
"Here!" shouted an officer excitedly when he heard his name.
"What about Cheng Yi?"
"Lord Cheng came out a month ago, but he hasn't come back yet......"
"Okay, I see," the messenger skillfully took the brush and drew a big red cross on the letter, then threw the letter into the bag on the ground, and continued to shout: "Next, Xu Huo!"
Mu Zixin also squeezed into the crowd and looked at the messenger anxiously.
A sharp-eyed officer on the side recognized Mu Zixin, who had unkempt hair, and immediately coughed twice to signal to the people around him.
"Hey, 'Young Master' is here, give way to your lord!" an officer shouted in a low voice to the people around him.
When the officers next to him heard this, they all looked in the direction where Mu Zixin was, looked at her with a wicked smile, and talked about it one after another.
Mu Zixin didn't bother to pay attention to them, and walked straight to the messenger.
"Is there a letter from me?" she asked.
"No!" said the messenger.
Although she had expected this to be the outcome, for ten years she would still run over to see it every time the messenger came to deliver it, she didn't know what she was waiting for, but it seemed to have become a deep-rooted habit.
Mu Zixin walked out of the crowd and happened to bump into Ling Xiang, who rushed over to join in the fun.
"Do you want me to teach you a lesson to those bastards?" He looked coldly at the group of people behind him who were chattering about her, and the group of officers met the cold light in Ling Xiang's eyes, and they all closed their mouths and lowered their heads in fright.
"Don't worry about it, I've gotten used to it for so many years anyway!" she said angrily, "and without your letter, why are you here to scare you?"
"I'm here to see what's new, don't you want to buy something?"
"It's still a few, there's nothing to buy. ”
"It's true, you get so much salary every month, and you still pick it like this," Ling Xiang pouted, "Look at you wearing this tattered military uniform all day long, and you don't dress up and dress yourself, be careful that you can't get married!"
"Don't worry about it, I don't want to get married!" Mu Zixin pushed him aside.
"Hey, don't buy clothes and shoes, at least buy a newspaper to read!" Ling Xiang grabbed her, "Be careful that you are out of touch with the times." ”
"What's the use of looking at that thing, I've been in this place for ten years, and even if I still have some thoughts about the outside world, my body has long been out of touch with this world!" she yelled at him in displeasure.
"Really?" Ling Xiang looked at her with some suspicion after hearing this, and a mysterious smile immediately appeared on the corner of his mouth, "I have a major secret here, which I secretly found out with the messenger, and it has not been made public." ”
"I'm not interested!" Mu Zixin said disdainfully.
"Why are you so boring! This news is about Wu Qianyi, the seventeenth sect leader of Ziyun Mountain, and she has already ...... it."
"Don't listen, don't listen! I don't listen to any news about her!" Mu Zixin covered his ears, roared angrily at Ling Xiang, turned around and was about to leave, but suddenly heard a gentle voice......