When Xue Fan ran back when he saw the smoke, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he saw that the small kitchen had been changed beyond recognition.

After that moment, he saw a familiar man standing under the pomegranate tree not far away. The man's untied black hair fell like a waterfall, a light gray robe of mulberry silk was slightly light, and he was leaning on a black bamboo cane, and he was also looking at the small kitchen with thick smoke. He had never seen the man standing, and he couldn't help but be stunned again.

After being stunned, Xue Fan ran to Liu Ying out of joy, looked him up and down, looked him in circles, clapped his hands and smiled: "Don't give up my brother, you can stand up!" You're able to walk! ”

Liu Ying said happily: "Thanks to your fire, I was able to stand up and escape outside the courtyard." ”

Xue Fan ignored the fire behind him and asked with a smile, "How do you feel?" Is there any difference between the legs and feet compared to before? ”

Liu Ying limped a few steps and replied truthfully: "I haven't moved for a long time, and I am weak and weak." The left leg can walk, but the right leg is not very obedient, like a pendant. ”

Xue Fan frowned: "It seems that it will take some time for the right leg to recover like the left leg." Then he stretched his brows again and said, "Don't abandon my brother, congratulations!" Since the left leg can be recovered, the right leg will definitely be able to do it too! ”

Liu Ying shook the ink bamboo cane and said, "It seems that this cane is indeed useful." ”

Xue Fan said: "This is what my father ordered me to do." He said that after you can stand up, whether one leg recovers first or both legs recover together, there will definitely be a period of weakness. You have been on the couch for four years, and although my sister often massages your legs, you have not walked for too long, and you must be weak when you stand up. Also, my sister said, you're a lot fatter than before! Even if your legs are as strong as they used to be, and you have to support a much heavier body, you will definitely feel weak. ”

Liu Ying smiled indifferently, and couldn't help laughing at herself in her heart, it turned out that the top of the beauty list back then was also said to be fat today.

Xue Fan turned around to look at the fire in the courtyard and said, "There is a well not far away, so I'll go to fetch water to put out the fire." ”

Liu Ying tugged at his sleeve: "This fire is burning brightly, with the strength of you and me, I can't stop it at all." We'll have to go to the lodge and find someone to put out the fire. I don't know the way to the lodge, so I'm waiting for you here. ”

Xue Fan nodded, glanced at Liu Ying's crutches again, and said, "Don't abandon my brother, you wait for me here, I'll run fast, I'll just go find someone." ”

Liu Ying grabbed Xue Fan again: "Take me with you, I can also recognize the way." ”

Xue Fan asked, "What if when we come back, the fire has already burned down the house and yard, and my father and sister scold me?" ”

Liu Ying pointed to a stack of books and a piano on the book beside him: "The valuable things are here, and the fire can't burn." The courtyard was open all around, and the fire would not reach the medicine garden in the distance. ”

Xue Fan had to take Liu Ying to walk slowly in the direction of Yaowang Villa.

The trail is hidden, passing through the wildflowers, and then to the bamboo forest, and then walking through the deep forest, only to see the verdant mountains in the distance.

Liu Ying walked out of breath, blisters had developed on the part of her armpit holding crutches, and her left leg was also very sore. Xue Fan saw that he was so struggling, and persuaded him to stay where he was and wait several times, but Liu Ying still insisted on going to the villa together.

When he saw the courtyard of the villa from afar, Xue Fan said: "Don't abandon your brother, you are really as good as your name, so stubborn!" Now that you can see the lodge and you know the road, you can sit down and take a break! ”

Liu Ying wiped the sweat that kept slipping on her forehead and neck with her sleeve, only to find that the whole shirt had been soaked with sweat. He straightened his long hair and smiled reluctantly, "I'm fine." It's all already here, and it's really unreasonable not to go to the villa to see your father in person. ”

Xue Fan said: "Why are you in a hurry to meet my father?" ”

Liu Ying continued to stagger: "Otherwise? ”

"You don't want to marry my sister, so naturally you're not in a hurry to find her."

Liu Ying knew that Xue Fan had always been smart, and he didn't hide it from him: "I really want to meet my master as soon as possible." ”

Xue Fan didn't know Liu Ying's life experience, and naturally he didn't know that the "master" Liu Ying said was his father-in-law, King Wei.

Xue Fan said as he walked: "In my opinion, anyway, the small courtyard in the mountain col is estimated to have burned down at this time, so I should take you to see your master first, so you can rest assured." However, my father instructed that no one should disturb the uncle, and he specially told you, especially you, that you must not go to see the uncle, otherwise it will disturb him and it will be very bad for his injuries. Let's take a sneak peek outside his room. ”

Liu Ying agreed: "Okay." ”

At this time, he finally walked to the Medicine King Villa, and Liu Ying was about to enter with Xue Fan, but was stopped by the servant at the door.

The servant saluted respectfully to Xue Fan, then looked at the strange man on crutches beside him, and asked, "Young Master, I don't know if this is ......?"

Without waiting for Xue Fan to answer, Liu Ying bowed his head and saluted: "I will not give up in Xia Luo, thanks to the recommendation of Young Master Xue, I have come here to seek medical treatment." ”

Although Xue Fan felt that his brother's answer was a little strange, he couldn't find fault with it, so he nodded and agreed: "Yes." ”

The servant asked no more questions, and the two walked into the villa.

Seeing that there was no one around, Xue Fan whispered to Liu Ying: "I suddenly thought that the place where you are recuperating from your injuries is the top secret forbidden place of Yaowang Mountain, and only my father, my sister, and you and I know the location of that forbidden place, so we can't just find someone to put out the fire." I'll take you to see your master first, and then I'll go to my sister. ”

Liu Ying nodded and continued to follow behind Xue Fan. I met a few servants on the road, but no one recognized Liu Ying, but I really couldn't blame those servants.

He was here six or seven years ago. At that time, he was in his prime and was a guest at the table. He competed with the king of Shu in the villa, and won dozens of rounds, showing off in front of everyone. Liu Ying thought: "Probably the servants in the villa only remember what he looked like at that time. Now, although his appearance has not changed much, his posture is not as good as before, there is no need to change his appearance, and in the eyes of others, he is already another person. But it's okay like this, so as not to be recognized and spread out, and it will disappoint Master Xue's painstaking efforts to hide me in Yaowang Mountain. ”

Xue Fan took Liu Ying to a hidden courtyard. The courtyard door was closed, but not locked. There are many such courtyards in Yakuo Villa, and they are all temporary residences for patients from Kyushu countries who come to seek medical treatment.

Xue Fan gently pushed open the courtyard door and motioned for Liu Ying to come in.

Liu Ying stepped into the courtyard with his left foot, but his right foot tripped over the threshold, and he immediately "pounced" and fell to the ground. Xue Fan hurriedly helped him up. Liu Ying dusted off her body, cut her hair again, and then walked slowly towards the room in front of her.

Stepfather...... Xiao Ying has come to see you.

Xiao Ying came over to see you.

Through the crack in the door, Liu Ying saw a bamboo couch in the elegant room. The man lying flat on the bamboo couch, covered with a thick quilt, motionless, his long hair was withered and curly, black and white.

The house is neatly furnished, and there are a few freshly cut white peach blossoms. The sunlight spilled into the house through the doors and windows, and sprinkled onto the man's face, making Liu Ying feel that the years were quiet and clear, as if as long as he called the word "father-in-law" like when he was a child, his father-in-law would simply respond to "um" whether he was reading or sleeping.

Liu Ying's face was tightly pressed against the bamboo door, looking at the silent man in the room from afar.

Xue Fan tugged at his sleeve, not daring to make a sound, for fear of disturbing the patients in the room, pointed to the door, and signaled that he was going to find his sister. Liu Ying nodded slightly, and Xue Fan quietly ran out of the small courtyard.

Liu Ying was still on crutches, standing in place, carefully and carefully looking at the man on the couch over and over again—his long hair, his silhouette, his complexion......

Nothing is as it was yesterday.

My father's hair, although it was also black and white, was smooth and smooth, not so dry.

The outline of the stepfather, with straight roots and sharp edges, is not so flat and bloated.

Although the complexion of the father-in-law is not as dark as the golden jade of the country, he has also experienced the wind and sun, and is not as pale as this.

Tears have been swirling for a long time, and finally they still wet the bamboo door.

Liu Ying held the crutches tightly in one hand, and with the other, he finally pushed the door open tremblingly after the battle between heaven and man.

With each step forward, he could see the man on the couch more clearly.

Every step forward is a heart-wrenching pain.

Stepfather......

I actually believed in the Xue family's father and daughter for two years!

No, it's me who is cowardly, it's me who deceives myself! Trust them, it was my own choice from the beginning. I doubted it early in the morning, but I still couldn't ask, and I knew it early in the morning, but I still chose to rely on their white lies to numb the self-blame and pain in my heart!

This puppet, how could it be you!

That year, the wind at the top of the peerless peak was so loud that I fell with the snowflakes......

I clearly hear you shouting "Xiao Ying...... Clearly see that you jumped off the edge of the cliff...... I vividly remember that after a few rounds of punches and kicks, you grabbed the position below, and in a split second before me, you fell into the muddy torrent, blocking the most painful moment for me......

In my memory, the first word you said to me should be "Xiao Ying......

What did you say to me...... The last word is also "Xiao Ying".

Father, now that I have stood up, I will never choose to be a coward again.

Your grace of adoption and teaching, your grace of sacrificing your life to save you, Xiao Ying has nothing to repay, so she can only do her best to help you complete your will to unify the countries of Kyushu.

He had already washed his face with tears, but he wiped it away with a wave of his sleeves.

Father-in-law, I remember that when I first practiced martial arts, you pressed my tendons and pressed them painfully, and I got angry and cried my nose. Then you say, "What's the use of crying?" Tears can't nourish flowers or watering fields, and they hurt their eyes in vain. If you have the ability, you can practice martial arts well, and in the future, I will be arrested if you can beat me to tears! ”

Pity...... Father-in-law, I have broken my muscles and bones, I have been in bed for four years, my legs and feet are ineffective, and my internal strength is exhausted, I am afraid that even Xue Fan's kid, I can't beat it. And you and I still can't win the last fight in this life.

Liu Ying took one last look at the stranger on the couch, turned around and walked outside.

Under the ancient magnolia tree outside the small courtyard, there stood a woman in white who looked like an immortal outside the world. She looked indifferently at the man limping towards her in front of her, and with indifference, she hid the irreversible discouragement.

Liu Ying bowed deeply to Xue Yiren and said, "Your grace of rescue, companionship, and kindness of concealment, I want to repay them all before leaving Yaowang Mountain." Sister Xue, after a few days, have you thought of a good way to make me repay my kindness? ”

Xue Yiren slowly took out a white porcelain vase from his arms and looked directly at Liu Ying: "I thought of it." I just don't know if you're going to actually do it. ”

Liu Ying said: "Unless I am asked to hurt others, I will never shirk any of your sends." ”

Xue Yiren sighed lightly: "It's not someone else, it's yourself?" ”

Liu Ying smiled bitterly: "Compared with back then, I am so disabled, what are I afraid of?" ”

Xue Yiren threw the white porcelain bottle into Liu Ying's palm with one hand, and said coldly: "This is poison, do you dare to drink it?" ”

Liu Ying didn't say a word, pulled open the black stopper on the top of the bottle, and was about to pour the colorless and odorless liquid in the bottle into his mouth.

Xue Yiren grabbed his wrist: "Wait. Is there anything else you would like to say to me before drinking? ”

Liu Ying said: "I originally wanted to ask him where my stepfather was buried when I thanked Master Xue, but after the poison was entered, I don't know if I can ask him in person, so it's better to ask you." ”

Xue Yi said: "You don't have anything else to say to me except this matter?" ”

Liu Ying shook his head, raised his hand, and poured the liquid medicine into his mouth.

The liquid medicine is bitter in the mouth and spicy in the throat, like a strong wine, but there is no sweetness.

Xue Yiren stared at Liu Ying in silence, and a tear finally slipped from the corner of his eye.

She choked up, "Doesn't it look like spirits?" The kind that is hard to drink? It's bitter and spicy, without any mellow sweetness. This medicine is called 'Tongue Cutting Soup'. ”

The burning of the throat suddenly ached and unbearable. Liu Ying coughed a few times, but the more he coughed, the more painful it became.

Xue Yi said: "Brother Zhuge , my father and I have spent so much effort to save you, the deadly poison, I am reluctant to give it to you......"

Liu Ying reluctantly said the last three words: "I know ......" That's why I dare to drink.

Xue Yiren continued: "I can only give you a dumb pill to drink, so that you can't speak." That way, I won't have to hear you say the word 'forgiveness' again. Even if you see her in the future, she will never hear you call her name again.

In fact, I wanted to go to Chu State countless times to kill her, but her martial arts were not weak, and she lived in the heavily guarded Chu Palace, so I didn't bother to take risks. Moreover, she is living freely, which is your biggest shame and regret.

There is indeed not much place that you can hurt with your current skin. I also thought about stabbing your eyes so that you can't get out of Yaowang Mountain. But in that case, you won't see my beauty again.

All I can hurt is your throat and your heart.

You owe mine, you can't pay it back. I owe you, and I can't pay it back.

We are finally cleared. ”

Liu Ying nodded slightly, and returned the white porcelain vase to Xue Yiren with both hands.

Xue Yiren didn't pick it up, he had already turned around and wanted to go, and then turned back and said, "Your father-in-law's tomb is at the top of the peerless peak."

At the top of the peerless peak, there are two mounds of King Weiwen and King Qiren. In the tomb of King Qi is the puppet that my father is looking for, and in the tomb of King Wei, it is your father-in-law himself.

When my father rescued you from the Nai River, your father-in-law was already broken, his bones and muscles were broken, and he had been floating in the torrent for a long time, and his flesh and blood were almost blurred. But he still holds on to you. Judging by your injuries, he should have saved you from all the fatal blows. ”

The throat burns, and the heart is like a knife.

Liu Ying stood quietly under the ancient magnolia tree, and at his feet were the porcelain vase that had just been shattered in his palm, and a field of lilac petals.