The invisible danger was like a spike piercing Yao Shuang's heart, which made him have to be on guard, the matter of the Xiaoyao Palace was temporarily put aside by the two of them, and they searched the periphery for more than ten days, but they still couldn't find any clues about that person.

It wasn't until May that Yao Shuang received a reply from Yan Yunxing, which pointed out: That person's affairs will be put aside for the time being, and hiding his identity from being suspected by the people of the Supreme Alliance is the top priority; Nangong Jin stayed in Yangzhou to help; Mercenary Alliance: He'll send someone to keep an eye on it.

With the order to decide, Yao Shuang did not delay for a moment, and then made three fake faces, returned to Yangzhou Xicheng, and lied to the people of the Supreme Alliance, but the people of the Xiaoyao Palace were angry, you Supreme Alliance did not believe in your words, and it was clear that you looked down on my Xiaoyao Palace, can you still get it? Send an envoy and issue a war letter, and you will definitely have to compete with the Supreme Alliance.

Alsace was in a hurry, and asked Yao Shuang to talk to the envoy in person to show the sincerity of his cooperation. Yao Shuang explained that he did encounter difficulties on the way, one lie covered up another, and negotiated for several days in a row, keeping him busy.

That night, Arthas sent Yun Shui Yu to urge him, saying that the messenger suddenly turned his face and was going to make a war letter, Yao Shuang picked up two mouthfuls of food, and left in a hurry. In the military barracks, only Nan Huaxin and Nangong Jin remained.

Nan Huaxin was still dressed as a military advisor, practicing cross-legged in her room, and after a while, she heard a slight sound of footsteps outside the door, lingering at the door for a long time, but turned around and left.

"Hey......" Nan Huaxin sighed, got up, chased out, and saw a thin back in the middle of the lotus garden pond in front of him, standing silently by the pavilion, feeling his lonely sadness, Nan Huaxin finally couldn't bear to say those words, shook his head and turned around to leave.

"Senior sister?" Nangong Jin felt something strange behind him, turned around and shouted.

The time to come will come......

Nan Huaxin stopped, squeezed out a smile on her face, and turned around and asked, "Senior brother, why are you here?" ”

Nangong Jin touched his young fake face, squeezed out a little smile, and said casually: "It's okay at night, I came to see this lotus pond, but it didn't open." ”

"Look at the lotus? Senior brother, your ability to lie still hasn't grown at all......" Nan Huaxin was secretly amused in her heart.

"Why am I here, junior sister, don't you know in your heart?" Nangong Jin felt sad in her heart.

Both of them actually understood what the other wanted to do, and both guessed the result, but one didn't give up, the other couldn't bear it, and this procrastination seemed to be doing tai chi.

"Hey......" Nan Huaxin sighed again, turned around and walked into the room, and said as she walked: "Senior brother, if you have anything to say, let's go into the room and talk about it." ”

Nangong Jin watched her enter the room, and hesitated in her heart, should she go in or not?

Forget it, death is death!

Nangong Jin secretly clenched his fists, cheering for himself in his heart, but his legs were as heavy as lead, and in just a few dozen steps, it was as difficult as rushing to the execution ground.

Finally, when he arrived at the door, he raised his foot and crossed the threshold, which made his heart beat violently, and it took a long time to calm down.

Closing the door and sitting down, Nan Huaxin made a cup of hot tea, put it in front of the table, and slowly sat opposite him, looking at him silently, his eyes gentle and kind.

After a long time, Nangong Jin finally spoke, he opened his mouth slightly, and seemed to be a little hesitant, but finally made up his mind, and said to Ai Ai: "Can we ...... Can...... Take off this mask and speak? ”

When the words came to his lips, he still flinched.

"I can't."

"Why?"

"Because my brother is not easy for him to make."

"It's hard to talk with a mask."

"There's nothing bad to say, just say it."

The two blurted out continuous conversations like cannonballs, without thinking about it at all, as if only such a dense speed of speech could hide the tension and embarrassment in their hearts.

"Then I won't talk about it." Nangong Jin got up and was about to leave, but Nan Huaxin followed up and said: "Long pain is better than short pain, why don't I talk about it first." ”

Nangong Jin was stunned in place, and the sentence "long pain is better than short pain" completely disillusioned the hope in his heart.

Nan Huaxin still has a plain appearance, flat eyes, and a flat tone.

"Senior brother, I don't like you, you're just my senior brother."

Nangong Jin, who finally got the answer, felt like a knife for a while, and sat down on the chair with a buttocks, fine beads of sweat oozing from her forehead, which slid down her cheeks through the fake skin.

But he still doesn't want to give up, and loving someone is humble.

"But...... But Hall Master Yao doesn't like you either......" Nangong Jin almost finished with a trembling voice, and Uncle Yao, who had always been beloved, made him feel uncomfortable at this time, and his face was hateful.

When Nan Huaxin heard this, her face immediately changed, and she said sharply: "It has nothing to do with him!" ”

"Why doesn't it matter, if it weren't for him, maybe we could ......"

"No maybe!" Nan Huaxin wanted to completely shatter his thoughts.

"Yes!" Nangong Jin, who had never been angry in front of his friends and relatives, was like a rampaging lion at this time, and shouted angrily: "If it weren't for him, I would have chased you a long time ago; If it weren't for him, you'd love me; If it weren't for him, we would have been together a long time ago! ”

He was almost about to vent the jealousy that had been pent up in his heart for many years, and his chest kept rising and falling violently, but looking at her, he still had a flat demeanor and an indifferent gaze, and he felt that it was not because of the fake face, but that there was really no trace of waves in her heart.

The feeling made him hopeless.

"I said, it has nothing to do with him, I only treat you as a brother." Nan Huaxin's vicissitudes of life seem to confirm her calm heart.

Nangong Jin knew that talking about Yao Shuang would only make herself more humble and pitiful in her eyes, so she gave up her jealousy of Yao Shuang in her heart, but she did not give up chasing back her heart.

"Have you forgotten? Mt. Fuji crater, you have also smiled at me, you have also blushed......" Nangong Jin looked like a puppy abandoned by his owner in the wind and rain at this time, only grabbing the last corner of his clothes, whimpering and pleading.

"What does that mean?" Nan Huaxin didn't let go at all, and continued, "Is it that if I blush at everyone and smile at everyone, it will make you think that I like him?" If so, then I won't smile at anyone in the future, okay? ”

"But we have suffered together in the depths of the labyrinth, we have experienced life and death together, this is enough to witness the true feelings of I like you, the indelible imprint, have you never felt the same way?" Nangong Jin touched his lower abdomen, and he could still feel the ugly scar like a millipede through his clothes.

Nan Huaxin raised her hand and touched her neck as well, she knew that in that white place, she would always leave a terrifying red mark, which was the last thing she wanted to think of, in the depths of dusty memories, grandpa's long gray hair fell from root to roots, his body was covered in blood, a pair of eyes had become completely blind, and what oozed out of the seven orifices was a thick pitch-black liquid.

A tear oozed from the corner of her eye, dripping down the table through her face.

"Living and dying together, I can treat my senior brother as my best friend, I'm sorry for you, I ......"

"Don't say it......" Seeing his beloved girl crying, drop by drop like a knife, he couldn't bear it, and he didn't want to, although his heart also hurt.

"Whew......" He breathed a long sigh of relief, as if he had let go, but as if he hadn't put it down.

"Are you sure it's not because of his kindness to you?" This is Nangong Jin's last glimmer of hope.

Nan Huaxin shook her head slowly, laughed stupidly, and said lightly: "Yayoi, Wuchen, Second Elder, and Master are all kind to me, do I have to like it?" ”

"Yayoi and Wuchen are people in Buddhism, and the second elder and master are all elders, can this be the same?" Nangong Jin didn't believe it, he was paranoid that her liking was repaying her kindness.

"Huh...... You know, I like him like you like me, just like it, nothing else. She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and curled up on the table, but a pair of smart eyes were staring at the flickering candle flames, as if she saw the handsome and majestic figure in her heart.

"Yes, I understand, I understand that he doesn't like you either, just like you don't like me, and you don't have a chance." Nangong Jin was relieved, but the humble love still made him want to seize the opportunity to fight back at the last moment.

Nan Huaxin still stared at the dancing firelight, and said lightly: "I can wait for him, because time does not wait for him, so I can wait for him; And you can wait for me, but time doesn't wait for you, so you can't wait for me. ”

"Even if he marries someone else?"

"I won't let him marry someone else and risk my life! Never! There was a look of determination on her face.

"Then how do you know that I won't gamble my life to keep you together?"

"Hehe......" Nan Huaxin smiled, looked at his face that was about to distort, and said lightly: "When you say this in a questioning tone, it means that you will never do this." ”

"What if I did!" His voice was hoarse, a low voice of suppressed pain.

"You won't." Her tone was firm, as if she had already seen through his heart.

"Why!"

"Because, he is your Uncle Yao."

yes, huh...... He's my beloved Uncle Yao......

Nangong Jin got up, tore off the dough, threw it to the ground, and turned around to leave.

"Where are you going?" Nan Huaxin hurriedly sat up, but did not stop him.

"I don't know."

"Do you want to go back to Suzhou?"

"I don't know." He really didn't know.

"Take care of yourself."

"Thank you...... Sister. Opening the door, he disappeared in an instant.

Nan Huaxin felt so guilty that she finally couldn't hold back anymore, bent down, buried her head and cried.

Her heart is not cold, her senior brother is a talent, nor is she a follower who comes and goes when she summons, and it hurts her heart very much to say that decisive words, but she knows that this one-way relationship has to end it with her own hands, and the longer it drags on, the deeper it hurts him.

But what about herself?

……

In Yangzhou City in the middle of the night, the lights are bright, and pedestrians are constantly coming and going, just in the most luxurious restaurant in the Maple Forest Alliance, Maple Leaf Building, he just wants to get drunk, or let the enemy beat him to death, but this life.

The first floor is the most ordinary, and it is also the place where the most poor people are few, everyone has their own sorrows in their hearts, some can talk to them, and some can only lick their wounds alone.

At the corner of the stairs, there were three or five drunkards, Nangong Jin was one of them, and the bad wine was poured into his stomach bowl after bowl, but he didn't feel the slightest spiciness, and some were just bitter.

As he drank and drank, he suddenly burst into tears.

From then on, he couldn't hold back any longer, and the salty tears were like beads with broken threads, mixed with wine and swallowed into his stomach, and the inexplicable pain made him whimper in a low voice.

At first it was a slight sob, then it turned into a staccato crying and laughing, and at last he hugged the wine jar and cried, but after all, no one paid any attention to him, not even a trace of contempt.

His cry seemed so monotonous and lonely in this incomparably noisy Maple Leaf Building, mixed with shouting, laughing, and drunken scolding, which combined into a bitter fate song for the lowest cultivators or trialists.

……

This song is over.

In the early morning, one by one, the drunkards who were drunk like mud were thrown into the garbage heap by the guys in the Maple Leaf Building, among them was Nangong Jin, who was so drunk that he was completely unconscious, and let the passers-by point at him, until a stealing robber reached out into his arms, and then he fought hard and kicked the man away several feet away.

Everyone knows that this person is a ruthless hero, no one dares to spit on him anymore, people are sensible and will be afraid, but the beasts are not sensible, one by one the cats and wild dogs and pee around him, he didn't do anything, let the hot gold juice pour on his body and face, and after a while, he laughed madly.

For three days, no one was willing to pay attention to him anymore, everyone knew that there was a dirty and smelly drunk in the garbage heap of the vegetable market, and they all knew his end, either starvation to death, or death from illness, and after death, he would be thrown into the corpse car with his nose covered, and poured into a mass grave outside the city with a corpse, eaten by wolves, bitten by dogs, and fell into eighteen layers of hell, and could not be reborn forever.

Another corpse in the gutter.

No one cares why he died, and even if anyone knew, they would scoff at him.

In such an era when people's hearts are chaotic and numb, those who dedicate themselves to love are tantamount to a salted fish.

An idiot.

(End of chapter)