Chapter 123: Sudden Change, Impermanence
The evening breeze is blowing, and the flames are cut.
Several slender red candles, one in the east and one in the west, are placed under the root of the wall, and they are also dotted with colorful hydrangeas.
Seven-foot red silk, from the top down, fluttering lightly with the wind, curling Nana, faintly sufficient, softer than cooking smoke, lighter than catkins, gentler than pigeon feathers, this small prison, set off extraordinarily warm.
"I'm back!"
She was squatting and fiddling with the flower branches, and when she heard a familiar voice outside the door, she stretched her gaze and looked out of the prison, "Why is it so early today?" ”
Seeing him return safely, her face couldn't help but smile with joy, like a hydrangea blooming in the afterglow.
"Today's transplantation of flower seedlings and other matters is very successful, the director is happy, so he allowed me to come back in advance, and within half a decade, this dead slave prison will become a sea of flowers!"
After habitually locking the door for the jailer, as soon as he turned around, a bright red light came into view, and he turned around with bright eyes, and asked curiously.
"Huh? But what's not to be happy about? Hang red silk again, and put red candles again, eh! This flower is also on display! ”
"Yes! Of course, there are happy events. ”
She raised her face and spoke in a cheerful tone.
"Where is the joy in this prison?" pulled the red silk that floated over, looked around, and couldn't help but wonder: "Why don't you see the eldest brother?" ”
When she was done with the task at hand, she began to get up and approach him, explaining slowly.
"The trial side caught the eldest brother at noon to interrogate, and the trial lasted for half an hour before the person was released, and at night, a jailer came to pass the word, saying that he would be acquitted tomorrow, and he came to pick up the person, saying that he was going to deal with the follow-up matters, and when he came back, he would be free!"
The tone was full of irrepressible joy.
Looking at her shining eyes, the joyful boat stirred up a circle of beautiful ripples in his heart lake, and couldn't help but clap his hands and shout.
"That's a great event!"
"Of course!"
She raised her eyebrows and replied.
"Then we've got to have a drink tonight! It's a celebration of the aftermath in advance! ”
"A must!"
In the dark and damp prison, the fire in the stove burned fiercely, and the sand bowl on the stove kept beating the lid of the bowl, and made a rapid sound to itself. The bubbling heat kept coming out and rushing up the skylight.
There was a bitter smell in the whole prison.
White Bait curled up in a corner with her legs in her arms, and a few soft coughs came out of her mouth quickly and slowly.
I only felt a hot and uncomfortable face, and slowly opened my heavy eyes. It was pitch black all around, and she subconsciously looked at the door of the prison, and outside the prison, there was nothing but boundless darkness.
It turned out that everything was just a dream.
She shrunk her feet and hugged herself tighter, her two eyes that were not open open, looking around empty, as if she had no direction, and she didn't know what she was looking at, and her consciousness began to drift away.
She didn't know how much time had passed, and she didn't know where the moon had moved outside the window, or maybe there was no moon in the night sky tonight.
She didn't even know when she fell asleep, how she fell asleep, and how long she slept on.
Like, like she didn't know, when that person would come back, perhaps, he wouldn't come back.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"
The sudden coughing sound beside her pulled her long thoughts back. looked around and found that Jiang Li had woken up.
A strong smell of herbs and steam rushed into his mouth and nose. Frowning, he swept his eyes forward, only to see that the boiling liquid in the sand bowl was gushing out from the edges, as if it was about to burst!
His heart shrank suddenly, his throat tugged, and he couldn't help shouting, "Be careful! ”
One hand was raised, trying to remove the cover, but the sparkle in his eyes was out of reach. With a pull on his upper body, the pain suddenly pierced his whole body, and his movement became very difficult.
Bai Bait looked at him in a daze, and it took a long time to react, and he lowered his eyes and looked at the stove, "Ah! "My first instinct was to reach for the lid.
Seeing this, Jiang Li immediately pulled his foot and kicked over the stove that exploded the pot, "What are you doing!" ”
Startled by the collapse of the stove, his hand retracted as soon as he touched a puff of heat. Bai Bait opened his panicked eyes and looked at the messy ground, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated......
Seeing her stunned look, Jiang Li's heart was full of worry, and he couldn't help asking, "Bai Bai, what's wrong with you?" ”
She shook her head and said lightly: "The medicine is overturned, I'll go and boil it again." As he spoke, he was about to get up, but he grabbed him with one hand.
"White Bait, what's wrong with you?"
All the thoughts were written on his casual face, and how could all this escape his eyes.
When he woke up, he felt that Bai Bait was like a different person, which couldn't help but remind him of the first time he met her, when she saw her family die under the knife of the wind man, there was no life in her eyes, and when she knew that her sister's whereabouts were unknown, she began to be silent, and the apparent calm could not hide the fact that she was worried, she was always like this, as she is now.
"I'm fine...... I'm probably tired. Bai Bait said calmly, and his consciousness suddenly became clear. But you, the old wound is not healed, and a new wound is added, and the prison doctor came to see it in the evening, except for some flesh wounds, there are two bruises in the muscles and bones. Thankfully, the prison doctor was clever enough to help you catch it. Rest well and you'll be healed in no time. ”
Jiangli stretched out his hand to pull her, and when she finished pretending, she said word by word: "Don't lie to me, you're actually not good at all, right?" ”
"Didn't you curse me? Don't worry, I'm fine! She smiled again.
lowered his eyes, and finally couldn't help it, and said coldly in his throat: "If the second brother doesn't come back for a day, will you keep acting in front of me?" ”
Hearing Jiang Li mention this, the smile on the corner of Bai Bait's mouth instantly dimmed, and he lowered his head to avoid his gaze.
He added, "Why do you torture yourself like this? Sadness is sadness, pain is pain, there is nothing to hide, you don't have to hold on for anyone, if you are sad and can't let go, just cry happily! ”
The pain in her heart seemed to have been poked ten thousand times, and she finally couldn't help but raise her head and stop him from saying: "Enough! Say no more, I don't want to hear that. ”
She just didn't dare to accept this cruel truth, she just couldn't believe that all the good hopes were shattered the moment the wind man broke in.
"Didn't we say we'd get out together tonight? Why is this happening? Didn't he say that as long as he fulfilled the three conditions prescribed by the supervisor, he could temporarily save his life? Wasn't the ice canal already digging a few days ago? Haven't you already started collecting flower seeds in the snow? When he came back today, he also said that everything went well. That's right! If everything is going well, why did the director send someone to arrest him? Why humiliate him like this! Why"
Looking at her excited expression, Jiang Li clenched her trembling hand, and called uneasily: "White Bait" listened to her confusion again and again, wanting to say something, but didn't know where to start.
"He lied to us, he must have lied to us." Bai Bait suddenly looked at Jiang Li in a daze, as if he completely understood something. "Every time he comes back, he says everything is fine, but in fact he is not good at all! It must be that he accidentally angered the supervisor during the day, and the supervisor will send someone to arrest him to dig an ice ditch, and the dead slave is imprisoned to bloom a sea of flowers, which is an extremely difficult thing, not to mention that the werewolf is insidious and cunning, and he is cruel by nature, how good can he be in the daytime? Maybe the werewolf tortures him every day, but he chooses to hide these clues from us! ”
"Those who come tonight are not imprisoned at all."
Hearing this, her heart trembled, she didn't seem to hear clearly, and asked, "What did you say?" ”
After thinking about it, Jiang Li became more and more indignant in his heart, and said bluntly: "The name of the leading wind man tonight is Mocang Wuji, he is the great prince of the Mocang Wind Country, he is the king of Ping who does all kinds of evil, and he is also the culprit who killed your family!" ”
When I heard this name, I was like thunder!
The blood-stained picture of the Qinhuai River, intertwined with the flying snow, was like flying flowers in her newly awakened consciousness. Biting the words, he suddenly confirmed: "This, words, when, really?" ”
Seeing his affirmative gaze, boundless hatred suddenly rose layer by layer in her heart like a thousand high walls, it was really unpredictable, the sea of blood and revenge had not yet been avenged, and the scimitar of the wind man swirled again forced her last relative, in this chaotic world, is there really not a wisp of good thought left? Or is it that bad luck has taken root at her feet, and it is bound to haunt her, it is bound to make it difficult for her to move an inch, and it is bound to die in despair, with many regrets in the world?
Wind Man - she hates it so much!
"Bai Bait, do you think the second brother is a little strange?" will leave the road suddenly.
She suddenly turned her angry eyes to him, a little unclear.
"Every time the second brother comes back, he doesn't ask if you and I are okay, as if he knows that you and I will be fine. He doesn't ask about the changes in prison, as if he already knows why they are changing, and he doesn't ask me why I'm in prison, as if he already knows everything. Today, Mocang Wuji wanted to put him to death, but those wind people seemed to be in awe of him, and they seemed to have an identity that was different from ordinary people. ”
The capture and judgment of the details around him is the instinct of a killer into his bones, in other words, no subtle changes can escape his keen eyes.
The former, he thought to himself, it was just his instinctive suspicion as a killer, he regarded Li Yu as his own brother, so naturally he would not have any doubts about him, until today, when the latter slowly appeared, those doubts were uncontrollable, knocking on his nerves again and again.
Tonight's events seem to be a little unusual.
"Hehe, the king has always been like this, he is just a duckweed in the sea, a speck of dust under the feet of the werewolf, because of the invasion of the werewolf, we have lost our beloved home, separated from each other's closest people one by one, he and I are just looking for the last family."
She leaned against the wall and slowly recalled, her eyes couldn't help but be filled with mist, she took a breath of cold air, and said firmly: "He said that in this life, he must find that person, even if it is at the expense of his own life!" will leave, he can't die, he still has a wish that has not been fulfilled, he must not die! ”
Her teary gaze suddenly turned to leave, as if announcing to the world, as if she was fighting the so-called doom for the last time, but the tone of her words finally slipped into desolation.