Chapter 4: The Deceased (6 I)

The summer rain comes and goes quickly. Unconsciously, the dark clouds dispersed, and ten thousand golden rays of sunlight fell from the sky, sifting out a bamboo shadow through the window screen. Between the vague shadows, there are a few frog chirps, flat, like the afterglow of a certain piece of music.

Asahiko slowly stood up from the bed and squinted her eyes to the windowsill. After the eyelashes filter out most of the daylight, the figure under the small window looks both illusory and real. She brushed her hair softly, as if she was afraid of disturbing the silence at the moment. Under the long black hair, there is a slender but not weak waist. Xuzi has weighed, slightly thicker than his hands together, and throbbing with the vitality of life.

"You're awake too?" The man by the window turned his head and asked softly in a somewhat nasal voice. She stood up and tried to come over to serve Li Xu to dress, but as soon as her feet moved, a feeling of soreness and softness and a little pain immediately spread throughout her body. It was a wonderful pain, and when it was strong, it was like alcohol. Those who taste it for the first time are inevitably a little sensitive, and their eyebrows are gently wrinkled into balls, and the moans from their nostrils are moving.

"I'll do it myself!" Li Xu smiled and turned over and sat up, taking off his clothes from the wooden shelf by the window. He had a dense beard on his face, but when he smiled, he was immediately filled with sunshine. If you don't know the details, you can't guess that he is a fierce general who has experienced dozens of battles and his hands are stained with blood.

"Then what's the matter, you, you're a master after all!" Shi Lan hurriedly refused, lest he be accused of serving him poorly. Xuzi refused to wait for her to regain her strength, and tied all the stumbling tapes to herself with a smile. Kicking a pair of home cloth shoes, he walked to the window and sat down, and continued to watch the other party tidy up his long hair.

Shi Lan was a little embarrassed, lowered his head, and the movements of his hands continued to speed up. "What's so beautiful, haven't you ever seen a girl comb her hair?" While busy, she sneered slightly. Unconsciously, Hongxia flew all over her face again.

"No, I haven't seen it up close! I don't have any sisters at home, no one combs it for me! Li Xu scratched his scalp and replied honestly.

The second half of the explanation made people laugh dumbly, and Shi Lan pursed her lips, trying not to be rude. I used to have an older brother, but whose woman would comb her hair to show her brother? Thinking of her dead relatives, her heart was instantly shocked, but her smile was still as bright as a glow, "Aren't there other women combing their hair in front of you?" You are such a big official? Teenager proud? ”

"Growing up, I stayed in the army!" Li Xu's answer was concise and to the point. As for the day when he grew up, he couldn't say. I always feel like I'm an adult, especially after all the madness I just had.

Men grow up when they have women. There may be some truth in this sentence, at least, Xuzi feels that his thinking is clearer than before. Including the girl's thoughts, it was never clear to see before, but now it can be vaguely captured. Just like Shi Lan in front of her, as soon as many of her words came out, Xuzi already understood the original meaning.

"Didn't you buy a girl when you were at home? It's not like me, it's ......" She wanted to ask Xuzi if she had a room, but she was shy for no reason, and she couldn't say the word "room" after all. The aftertaste of the wind and rain in the afternoon is still there, she doesn't know if a man is a veteran of flowers, but sharing the best things in life with strangers is not as good as hiding it herself. Although she knew that this idea was a bit extravagant, the legend had it that a boy from a large family would have someone to fold the quilt and make a bed after he was fourteen years old, and the person in front of her would be knighted before he was twenty years old, and I am afraid that there were already more than a dozen sisters in the family waiting for him.

"My family is very poor, barely enough to eat, how can I buy any maids!" Li Xu's answer is always unexpected.

"People like you can barely eat, so what kind of life do we rural people live?" Shi Lan thought that Xuzi was deliberately perfunctory, and narrowed her eyes and asked.

She will be lightly angry, and she will be angry for a while, and there is a kind of charm between her laughter. Xuzi hasn't been with a girl for more than a year, although his mind is sober, his heart is not very good, and before he knows it, he stretched out his hand again, gently stroking each other's faces, the movements are extremely subtle, extremely slow, as if he was afraid of using more than half a force, and the smiling face was broken.

"Forget it, if you don't say it, just because I didn't ask!" Shi Lan misunderstood Li Xu's meaning again, thinking that the other party was diverting his attention, so he put his hand on the back of Xuzi's hand and sighed.

"No matter how many sisters he has in his family, after all, the warmth at this moment is me." She told herself in her heart, "Since I have climbed the high branches, I have to endure the price, and besides, I can't be with him for long!" ”

Do you continue to take advantage of this somewhat simple young man? She didn't know, she just felt that the warmth of this moment was nostalgic, and if it weren't for those things that happened in the past, it would really make people want to be fascinated by it for a lifetime.

"My family is really poor, and I almost hid outside the fortress in order to avoid military service. Now these things are all desperately exchanged on the battlefield, including this fame! Xuzi felt Shi Lan's sigh lightly and added faintly.

"Did you really go out of the jam with Xu Maogong?" Shi Lan's eyes lit up instantly, and she asked. Out of a woman's instinct, she wants to know all the things about the past of the man in front of her. Including his home, his parents and loved ones, his life experiences. Besides, there were a lot of issues she really should have understood.

"When the emperor conscripted soldiers, my family was my only son, and I was reluctant to be recruited by the government. I didn't have the money to go up and down, so I packed up some groceries and fled outside the city under the guise of doing business. At that time, I put together a caravan, and the leader was Sun Anzu, I called him Uncle Jiu, who was very good and took good care of me. Most of the people in that team were forty or fifty years old, and the only one who was about the same age as me was Xu Maogong! Asahiko withdrew her palm from the other person's face and replied in an extremely flat tone.

If he had been asked about these old stories before the storm in the afternoon, he would have felt angry. At that time, the rumors were like snakes, biting his heart. And now, the storm has passed, and he no longer wants to deny the experience. No matter what the people in the past have become now, at least this memory is beautiful and precious.

Xuzi told a story and shared her experience with Shi Lan. Little Wolf Ganluo, Buxiao Lieutenant, Ninth Uncle, Xu Maogong, as well as A Silan, Ashina Choyu. His heart twitched at the mention of Suebu, but quickly calmed down. He didn't mention much about the details of his relationship with Tao Kuotuosi, but he didn't deliberately hide his relationship with her. The memories of those youthful youths are long gone, and if you don't learn to face them, you will never grow up.

Shi Lan's eyes widened a little, she didn't expect the experience of the man in front of her to be so exciting. His family background is actually similar to mine, and he also relies on his father to work hard outside...... It's just that the path he chooses is relatively safe, and not as impulsive as his father....... it turns out that he has also been bullied, so he doesn't bully people often.......

There is a warm feeling that slowly closes the distance between the two. Shi Lan felt dizzy and dizzy, and unconsciously forgot her original intention for the time being. "If I had been by his side when he was bullied. At least help him come up with ideas, or face them together! She thought to herself, knowing that such thoughts were dangerous, but she couldn't help it. Even after hearing the name of Tao Kuotuosi many times, there was a faint sourness in my heart.

"That Tao, what kind of pottery is silk, is she beautiful?" When he heard that the woman of the Xia tribe was planning to marry Li Xu, but the tribe forcibly married to the Turks, Shi Lan asked with concern.

"In my heart, she has always been beautiful!" Li Xu replied frankly.

"She must be happy!" Shi Lan smiled, two cold stars in his eyes. "Because you always remember her, you will never forget it in this life!"

"Now that I think about it, I was really stupid." Li Xu shook his head with a smile, "But it may also be because she and I have no fate with each other, so we can't get together!" ”

"Then you went back to the Central Plains and joined the army?" Shi Lan was extremely smart, and after the temptation, he quickly changed the topic. "She's the one to be jealous of, not me!" She thought maliciously, the corners of her mouth still smiling, but her eyes became brighter and brighter.

"How could it be so smooth, he was forcibly dragged by Ashina Choyu as a guest halfway through, and asked me to serve him. Then Xu Maogong and I set fire to his camp, and he led people to chase after him. Later, Xu Maogong and I escaped halfway. He returned to the Central Plains, and I was saved by a gang of horse thieves! Li Xu smiled and shook his head again.

At that time, he trusted Xu Maogong like that. I never imagined that a knife would stab at the other person's angle. If he repeats everything once, he knows he'll still set his clothes on fire and divert his pursuers. Because Xu Maogong had already paid a lot for him at that time, Xuzi had no reason to ask the other party to take his life in the end.

One cannot trust a person unsuspectingly, nor should one doubt all the bright side of human nature. The key is to grasp the degree, when you know how to hold your most important reliance in your own hands, rather than wishful thinking and rely on someone....... Xuzi chatted with Shi Lan intermittently while examining his past.

The reason why I was betrayed was not because I believed in people too much. But it is too absolute, and if you believe, you don't know how to have reservations. Always overly dependent on the people around him, so he is always flashed at critical moments. In the Su Si Department, he relied too much on Xu Dayan's resourcefulness and the fairness of the clan elders, when he was in Liaodong, he relied too much on Brother Liu's life experience, and when he was in the Xiongwu Camp, he relied too much on Yuwenshi and his connections, and from beginning to end, he did not hold the vital power in his hands, so he lost again and again, and lost again and again.

He looked at Shi Lan with a smile and found that the other party was very attractive. The eyes flickered alternately with confusion, excitement and cunning, making it impossible to know which one was true and which was false.

But it doesn't matter if it's true or not, because the mistakes of the past won't be repeated.

"Your hair looks good!" After talking about the miscellaneous past, Xuzi picked up the tips of Shi Lan's hair and praised it.

"Is it better to comb it up, or to go down to look better!" Shi Lan repeatedly compared her long hair, unable to determine how to lower the hairpin. (Note 1)

"It's all good!" Li Xu replied casually, as if he had no intention, "But you better comb it up, I'll ask the housekeeper to arrange for someone to move your luggage over tonight!" ”

Shi Lan smiled, turned her eyes, and in an instant, both of them saw countless stars flickering in each other's eyes.

Note 1: In the old days, when a woman got married, she had to change her hairstyle. Girls and young women are not to be mixed.

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