5. Floating lights
Pei Hongli quietly looked at the Gan River flowing through the soles of his feet, and leaned down quietly.
Something flickered in the distance in the river, and it was a lamp floating on the water. The lights were flashing out, and after a while, I saw that the light that had been bright just now suddenly disappeared, but something else was lit up again. Pei Hongli knew that the missing thing had sunk to the bottom of the river, and what was lit up was not just a lamp, but a thought.
She didn't go into town today. When she walked out of the tea shed and wild shop, the sun was still shining in the sky. Although it was barely three quarters past then, the July sun was still shining like a poisonous stream. In the tea shed, there were also four men who fell to the ground.
Pei Hongli looked at them, and for the first time, he deeply understood the meaning of the rivers and lakes. At that moment, a feeling of gratitude, or even a hint of luck, suddenly rose in her heart.
- Although I have been lamenting my sorrow recently, I grew up in the mansion of Shangshu and married into the imperial envoy family, although my life has been hard after following Yue Zheng, but I am really lucky to have never experienced the struggles and bloody storms of these real social bottoms.
That woman's move today brought her a more different and stronger shock than Aunt Hu and Yu Guolao in the small school field that day-those fights were real! Those who fight for their lives are splashed with blood and swords into the flesh! And those tea squatters are so cruel and real. Because of cruelty, so real; Because of agitation, it is magnificent! Compared to their lives that have been scarred by swords and swords for many years, what is my soul suffering?
Life is inevitably competitive, don't pity yourself for your hardships!
She suddenly remembered Yue Zheng in her heart. Although Yue Zheng was born in a scholarly family, he has read thousands of books and traveled thousands of miles, and he has already done these things, right?
So, sometimes, when I look into his eyes, I see in his eyes the kind of sorrow that I can't understand at that time. She finally understood why Yue Zheng was fighting so hard with such a strong and vicious political enemy in the court, he knew the suffering of life in this world. No wonder he often said that he was lucky, but after a few more years of study, he could almost use the ivory tower of books to isolate himself from the world, and he had no worries about food and clothing. And if he has the opportunity to be in power but can't do his best, it is clearly ashamed of the world's fathers and elders, and it is also a kind of weakness that he can't forgive.
No wonder in those days of spring flowers and autumn moons, sometimes he saw his occasional sigh of time and the thoughts of grace, although he also understood, but the meaning in his eyes was so deep and subtle. Is he saying: "Red mullions, in fact, you don't have to fall into yourself like this, those real injuries and pains have never been fought before".
She loves Yue Zheng because he is a man who never pities himself. But it wasn't until today that she understood why he didn't feel sorry for himself—compared with those who struggled in life, what qualifications did he have to sigh for himself in his small sighs of leisure?
At that time, when she had just walked to the gate of the city, she raised her eyes and happened to see the yellow paper fluttering flags in the hands of passers-by.
Then I suddenly realized that the moon was going to be full tonight.
She paused for a moment and raised her eyes: time flies so fast?
She had never cried for so many days, and suddenly felt that two wetness were not on her face, but in her heart, so unprovoked—unthinkable, irresistible.
——Yue Zheng......
What she remembered in her thoughts was still more and more serious.
Yellow paper fluttering flags, which have not been offered for a long time;
And when the moon is full in July, that's the night of the ghosts?
This is the first ghost night after you are gone......
When it rose at the beginning of the month, Pei Hongli walked out of the farmhouse where she had returned in the afternoon, and came to this deserted riverside alone.
Today she is not going into the city, she is not going to see her brother, she is not going to see anyone.
She didn't believe that people like Yu Zheng would become ghosts after death. She would rather he turn into a ball of pure air, and leave him alone outside the Liuhe—the morning is the mountain, the twilight is linked, the morning is twilight, and when she can finally complete his entrustment and hide in the mountains, she can breathe and breathe again, and entangle his heart.
I remember that when Yu Zheng was alive, she once asked him funny: If he died, what would he do.
She had imagined that his answer would be mountains, trees, clouds, and water......
I didn't think about it, and said more steadily: "Ghost! ”
- He doesn't believe in Buddhism or hell, why does he say that? Why would you rather die than become a ghost?
Pei Hongli looked at him in a daze.
After looking at him for a while, she suddenly understood: This human world is already like a ghost domain, and the real ghost domain wants to peel the skin and cook oil in the meantime, and the poison of the sword mountain and fire sea is only afraid that it is even more fierce!
And in this life, he struggled with such a time; So even if he died, he would rather go straight to the ghost domain.
Because he is willing to live with the unfair!
Pei Hongling sent his eyes into the dark night by the river. What is the night? It's been three watches in the night. During the third watch, the person who mended her clothes and shoes countless times, accompanied him, and accompanied him in the middle of the night and was trapped in the papers, was no longer there.
***
She didn't know that someone was watching her in the night. That person was none other than Fan Kuai.
With Fan Kuai's ability, although he lives in Xunyang, he can almost be said to be the leader of all the people hidden in Jiangxi.
There were not many of them, and they had always dared to hide only in the border areas of Jiangxi. But Fan Kuai is a head catcher, and he is extremely well-connected in the six doors, so he can use his public office to quietly search for a woman. He exhausted almost half a month's strength, and finally found the woman who the plague boss confessed.
At the beginning, because Pei Honglian's appearance was different, he was not sure. But at this time, when he saw her alone on Halloween's Day, he could almost conclude that she was the wife of the envoy Xiao who had just been mourned.
Fan Kuai stretched out his hand lightly and grabbed a lantern beside him. Then he hesitated: This is the most important task in the sect, and he really wants to kill such a bright woman.
But it was only a momentary hesitation.
It was a Kong Ming lantern. With the power of hot candles, Kong Ming lanterns could have risen into the air. I saw that he gently lit the wick in the lamp, and the lamp rose. It's a beacon of news. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief—although it was overdue, he must have completed the task that the plague boss had given him.
However, after two or three pillars of incense, Fan Kuai heard a slight footstep behind him - the plague boss chased Pei Hongling very closely, and he had already arrived in person when Fan Kuai reported that she might have approached Nanchang.
It was the sound of a group of approaching people, most of whom had barely heard the sound of footsteps. Fan was taken aback, he himself was no longer a mediocre hand, he was born in the 'Iron Ruler Hall' with a very prestigious reputation among the six doors, and he could distinguish the quality of people's kung fu. But he didn't expect that there would be so many masters from his own side!
When he turned around, he saw that more than a dozen figures had dispersed and dived into the night. And there were a total of seven who walked to his side—almost all of the 'plague class' had been exhausted. Fan Kuai was shocked, and looked closely, although he didn't necessarily recognize all the people who came, but he could guess that the 'plague class' had all been dispatched - Boss Wen, Wen Lao Er, Wen Lao San, and Wen Lao Qi had already arrived together!
They are the most important team on the Yangtze River under the hands of the 'King of Silence'. People in the rivers and lakes, I'm afraid that there is no one who is worthy of them to come out so together and do their best!
I saw that Wen Gong walked at the end. But the other six people had stopped in Zhang Xu Yuan. Wen Zhi stepped forward alone, walked to Fan Kuai's side, patted him on the shoulder as if approving, and looked at the riverside as he pointed out.
In the wind by the river, a woman was standing with her back to her, although she couldn't see her face clearly, but only one back made the plague boss's eyes stare at her: such a rhyme, it is stunning!
If she wasn't Pei Honglian, who was famous for a long time, who else would it be?
The reason why the "plague family class" came out with all their strength was not to scruple about Pei Honglian, but to Yu Meng and Yu Guo's Daguan Dao and Lu Crazy's 'thousands of catastrophes', and the old man's heroic demeanor of those two old men was almost indelible in their minds. And this is in Jiangxi, where the subordinates of the Dongmi 'King of Silence' have always refused to enter lightly.
They have to hit it right in one shot. Because this is under Pei Ju's rule, they can't help but worry about Pei Ju's seemingly gentle person once he makes a continuous counterattack. So this time, they called on almost all the forces in the Jiangjiang area.
It's just that they were afraid and didn't expect that Pei Hongli was not with Yu Guolao and Lu Crazy.
If Pei Hongling knew that these people were peeping at her, would she have fear in her heart?
She gently swept her temples in the night wind, people and ghosts were different, and the night sky was far away, it was really - not as dusty as the night platform, deserted and sorrowful, hairpin, abandoned!
- She lowered her head: What is it for, Yue Zheng, the covenant between you and me has been so lightly abandoned?
The plague boss personally took action, how could he have time to go back?
Although he saw only Pei Hongli and a woman standing there, he refused to ignore it. I saw that as soon as he waved his hand, the figure of the plague old seven had quietly moved there. The plague boss gently instructed him twice, only to see that the plague old man's figure flickered, and he had already retreated.
Among the seven leaders of the 'plague family class', he has always been the most agile and agile, and there is no trace of his practice. I saw him retreat slightly, but he was only a few feet away, shrugged slightly, and as soon as he avoided it, he had already avoided the canopy of a large locust tree—where all the field paths leading to the river could be monitored, and the arrangement of the plague boss was really exquisite.
Then the plague boss beckoned one after another, Fan Kuai saw him beckoning or stretching out two fingers, or stretching six fingers, and the second Wen, Wen third, Wen fourth, and Wen sixth responded to the beckoning, and then each brought his subordinates, quietly sneaked, and divided to both sides, which has become a trend of outflanking.
Boss Wen groaned, he was still not at ease - would the woman still have backup in Jiangzhong? For the sake of face, he couldn't let her borrow water to get out again under his hands. I saw him wave his hand for the last time, and Wen Lao Wu walked over, he gave a few low orders, and the plague Lao Wu took a few people and quietly dived into the water.
- They went around to a distance and quietly went into the water, and the real fish and birds were not startled, and they were silent.
The plague boss raised for a while, checking everywhere, until he was satisfied, and after consciously arranging the arrangement, his face turned slightly warmer.
Tonight, it turned out to be a nidal situation - he wanted to kill this Pei Hongli alive, and the subordinates of the 'King of Silence' never tolerated it.
He also had to bring back the "Liver and Gall Record". Thinking of the "Liver and Gall Records", he couldn't help but think in his mind: What is this volume of "Liver and Gall Records" left by Xiao Yuzheng's scholars? Why did the 'King of Silence' pass down a death order after being entrusted by Du Buchan - he must get this thing before it changes hands?
He stared at Pei Honglian's back tightly, and he couldn't believe it: Is that volume of the record of "Liver and Gall Gall", which is related to the most important volume, really in the hands of a weak woman in her hands?
His mind was spinning, but he didn't know that the praying mantis catching cicadas, the yellow finch was behind, and there was a pair of eyes staring at his actions under his nose.
But there was only one person staring at him, so it was difficult to say who was the mantis and who was the yellow finch.
It was a woman with a veil on her head. The woman had arrived before him, and was quietly hiding in the shadows of a tree.
What does she want to do? What are you waiting for? She had come early, so the plague boss couldn't detect any trace of her hiding in the night.
The woman hesitated when she saw that the plague boss had stopped, her face was depressed, and her face was suddenly green, and then he waved his hand violently, beckoned Na Fan Kuai to him, and gently commanded a few words. I saw that Fan Kuai nodded his head again and again, and then left quietly.
After he was gone, the plague boss waited quietly, and the woman remained silent.
The moonlight was hazy, and only the green aura on the plague boss's face was faintly visible. And then there was the flicking of the veil on the woman's face, and it was the faint breath of breath that came out of her mouth.
- Are she and Boss Wen waiting for the message that Fan is about to send back?
Even if he knew that someone was watching him in the darkness of the night, Pei Hongli would still be fearless at the moment.
Not for anything else - not for what she was born to be an ordinary person, not to let the shaved eyebrows of the fierce woman, just because at this time, she is thinking of a person in her heart.
That's, the more Zheng......
There is a kind of person who makes you feel strong and lonely even when you think of him.
- What kind of man is worthy of a woman's life's love? Pei Hongli suddenly remembered this question.
Is it when you are at your most lingering only to find his most tenacious existence? What did you feel the most when you were empty, but his ridiculous and painful stubbornness? Pei Hongli suddenly felt that Yue Zheng was like a nail, which had been as hard as a nail and deeply pierced into her dreamy and empty soul of a woman, and sometimes as empty and soft as all the people in the world.
As long as he was there, as long as he existed in his memory, that nail would forever nail the meaning of life that she often wanted to give up.
She stalked her neck slightly, and suddenly there was pride and clarity in her heart—Yue Zheng was like a clear and ancient song in her heart, but it was only after his death that she felt more deeply what he meant to herself.
How long did she stand? The dew was already soaking her ankles and her mouth was wet. She was a woman who didn't understand martial arts, and she didn't know that there was a figure behind her who had galloped back, it was Fan Kuai-Pei Hongli didn't feel it at all, because she was listening to that long but clear song sounding in her heart......