In the inconspicuous small courtyard of the capital, Nangong Ji pushed them away, and Cao Achou in the courtyard was lying on a long stone drinking wine, and there was no food, just thinking about things, and after a while, he took a sip.

Hearing the footsteps, Cao Achou didn't look up, until the door of the small courtyard was pushed open, he raised his eyes, and said lightly: "The matter is solved?" ”

"Well, I'm here to leave."

The drinking figure nodded and continued to drink.

There were a lot of weeds in the yard, and Nangong Jian sat casually on the steps in front of the courtyard house, looked up at the moon and sighed: "I don't know what year I will see you again this time." ”

The figure on the feldspar still kept drinking, and only the insects in the yard were heard, Cao Achou suddenly remembered that the night he saw the champion Hou, and the insects in Qinglu Mountain were also like this, so he asked Nangong Ji: "Do you have a way to make the insects in this yard not chirp?" ”

Nangong Jie glanced at Cao Acchou, the two were relatively similar, but Nangong Jie was taller, Cao Ugly's face was always a little haggard and depressed, while Nangong Jie was cold and vicious.

I couldn't think of why Cao Achou would ask such a question, and the man whose eyes gradually had snake-like vertical marks shook his head and replied: "You can kill these insects, or you can expel them, but you can't make them shut up." ”

Cao Achou nodded, and Nangong Ji asked curiously, "What are you asking for?" ”

Cao Achou, who had a lot of white hair on his head, was still wearing high and low shoes on his feet, but he didn't think to hide it, and he didn't reply: "When I saw Master Hou that day, the whole Qinglu Mountain was quiet, I don't know why." ”

Nangong Ji was stunned for a moment, full of confusion, hearing such a thing, he subconsciously said: "Is it some coincidence?" ”

"No, after he walked out of Qinglu Mountain, the whole Qinglu Mountain became a world of songworms again, and when the Hou Ye left with his front foot, all the insects on his back foot began to chirp again." Cao Achou shook his head, full of thoughts, this is something he hasn't figured out for a long time.

Nangong Ji also began to think about this question from all angles for a while, but no matter how he thought about it, he didn't think there was any reasonable answer, this insect just didn't chirp, and it didn't disappear or die, but why didn't it chirp if it was good?

He was born in the Beast God Sect, his strength is not weak, and his status is also high, so he has a lot of knowledge, and some small insects will also be domesticated in the sect, if you want insects not to chirp, you just need to find a place to make a sound and cut it off, in that case, it is impossible for it to chirp, and it is only possible to shut up without damaging insects.

Nangong Ji, who suddenly flashed a light in his mind, heard Cao Achou's voice, and Cao Achou said: "I have also studied it in the past few days, this insect will only stop chirping when it is frightened, can it be said that Hou Ye's breath is enough to permeate the entire mountain, so that the insects of the whole mountain are in terror." ”

Cao Achou himself said that he was a little unconvinced, but there was no other explanation except for this answer, Nangong Ji's brain roared after hearing this, he clenched his fists tightly, his shoulders trembled uncontrollably, he spoke with a trill, and kept muttering: "Yes, yes, I knew that Bai Dagongzi would not be so easy to beat." “

Cao Ah didn't look back, but he seemed to know the state of Nangong Ji, and said quietly: Are you so convinced? ”

Nangong Ji didn't answer and asked, "Don't you believe it?" “

Cao Aqiu, who had a lot of mottled white hair on his head, looked at the foot wearing straw sandals and said softly: "Master Hou is sick." “

"No matter how sick you are, the tiger is not something that a local dog can provoke." The man with vicious eyes snorted, glanced at Cao Augly with dissatisfaction, and responded lukewarmly.

Cao Achou didn't have the slightest mood swing, but said lightly: "But if you're sick, you're sick, and you're overly addicted to the legend of the undefeated champion Hou." “

"Yes, I still believe that the white prince is invincible between heaven and earth; So what? Nangong Ji's face was full of reason, and he stood up after saying it to Cao Achou.

It seemed that he saw that Nangong Ji was leaving, but Cao Achou didn't get up, but just said to the figure who had known him for decades: "Give me back my mask." ”

"I'm still useful, say, what's the price?" Nangong Ji reached into his arms to take out something, obviously he knew this old friend for many years too well.

It's just that the person who looks ten years older than himself is still drinking, and said lightly: "If you still have a use, you can take it, I won't charge you money, and I won't let it go." ”

Nangong Ji's face became serious for the first time, and he looked at Cao Augly and said, "When will you leave Beijing?" What are you doing in the capital? ”

Cao Achou, who was wearing different shoes, did not speak, and it seemed that the remaining black hair was white under the moonlight, and he drank the wine dejectedly, taking big gulps and sipping of it.

There are flowers blooming under the moonlight, blooming softly, silently.

The wind blew, and Nangong Ji suddenly thought of the time when he lived in the capital before, and every spring and summer was spent in such insect chirping and fresh breezes, at that time, the man who drank and shed tears was still a teenager, and he was a teenager who loved beauty very much.

At that time, Cao Lingzhou, a disciple of the Cao family in the capital, wore extremely bright clothes on his body, and he didn't wear any lighter colors, and he must have two more flowers on his head, and the horse was also the rarest pure white horse.

Thinking of the past, Nangong Ji sighed deeply, how sunny the young man was at that time, always looking forward to defending the country, but in a blink of an eye, the home was gone, Cao Augly has always collected money, but this time he suddenly didn't want it, which was quite a bit of a farewell.

When Nangong Ji and Cao Lingzhou joked, he said that he slammed the door, so the young man with the flower on his head replied: "No matter what you do or sell to you, you will not be charged for the last order in this life, no matter how precious the things you want, you will not be charged." ”

The nickname is Ugly, the big name is Cao Lingzhou, and the man looked at the flowers blooming on the side without saying a word.

Nangong Ji was anxious, walked in front of him and reached out to uproot the flowers and rubbed his palms, and suddenly the flowers turned into fine particles and went away with the wind, looking at the depressed man on the ground who was about to reach out to get the wine jug, Nangong Ji kicked the wine gourd to pieces.

A gourd's wine suddenly splashed in the air, Cao Achou reached out and wiped his face, sighed deeply and said: "I haven't known why I've been alive all these years, and I'm really getting uncomfortable day by day." ”

Nangong was silent, standing in front of Cao Achou's body and staring at him with his eyes tight, obviously waiting for him to continue.

Cao Achou looked at the fragments of the wine gourd on the ground and sighed: "I always feel that I want to live, but I don't know why I want to live, I don't know why I live, I continue to live with the voice in my heart, until that day I saw Lord Hou, I know, just because he let me live, so I have lived for so many years." ”

"He kept you alive, did you live? What about yourself? Don't you want to live? Nangong Ji leaned lightly on the bamboo fence on the side.

The man smiled miserably, "My Cao family is dead, Xiuxiu is also dead, except for a few old friends who know that I am alive, the whole world knows that I Cao Lingzhou also died in the full door of the beheading, everyone in the world only knows that there is a person called the embroidery ghost, but I don't know that the embroidery ghost is a person left behind by the Cao family's full door copying, a person whose heart is dead and his body is still alive." ”

Nangong Ji stretched out his hand to catch the snake on the fence wall, and said to Cao Augly while playing: "So you don't want to live?" ”

Cao Augly smiled disdainfully, looked at Nangong Ji with a smile and said, "What about you?" How are you going to live? ”

"Whoever kills my whole family, then I will seek revenge, and revenge is the motivation for me to live." The man with faint vertical marks in his eyes suddenly pinched the brain of the poison snake in his hand, and then stuck out his tongue and licked it.

Cao Achou on the ground looked at Nangong Ji who was intoxicated, and said coldly: "How can a barbarian on the side understand? ”

Hearing this title with strong contempt, Nangong Ji's face turned much more ugly, and he threw the snake corpse in his hand far away, and then replied lukewarmly: "We are barbaric in face, but we are clean in our bones, not like you hypocrites who claim to be civilized." ”

"The face is so ugly, how can the bones be clean?"

Nangong Ji looked at the man on the ground who was looking at him with disdain, and mocked: "We eat snakes, you scholars learn snakes, we eat meat, you learn poison, we look savage, and you are evil ghosts in human skin." ”

Cao Augly snorted and stopped talking, his face was full of the appearance of not arguing with a barbarian like you, which angered Nangong Ji.

Over the years, Nangong Ji has felt that there is no difference between him and the people in the capital, but he will never be able to get rid of this humiliating title, and the angry man looked at Cao Augly and said: "It is true that we are barbarians, we are not as good as your piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and we are not as good as your poetry and songs, but we barbarians know that we will die for the revenge of our relatives, but you, a civilized person, do not understand." ”

Cao Achou sat on the ground and didn't get up, and said disdainfully: "You don't believe that you are a barbarian, you only know that you want to take revenge, you only know to abide by your own standards as an heir and a brother; But your family's pursuit has never been considered in your eyes, you only know that after you go to revenge, whether you succeed or die under the enemy's knife, you have a clear conscience, but you have not thought about whether your relatives need your revenge. ”

"Hahaha, ridiculous, ridiculous, ridiculous, I have always thought that you were in Taoguang, it turns out that you have no idea of revenge at all, your whole family is dead, and you still think that your revenge is not respectful to them?"

Cao Achou lowered his head and looked at the fragments of the wine gourd on the ground, and looked at it for a long time without making a sound, until Nangong Ji moved his feet before he spoke, "Yes, if I raised my knife against the royal family, then if they under Jiuquan knew it, they would definitely kick me out of the Cao family, and if the underworld is also a world, then there will be no me on the Cao family tree in that world." ”

After hearing this, Nangong Jian calmed down, the fluctuations in his heart became smaller and smaller, knowing that he was completely calm, and the man who had thought for a while asked softly to the man who was looking at the moon on the ground and lamenting, "Why?" ”

Cao Achou got up from the ground, staggered to the house, hesitated again after walking to the door, and then sat down on the steps, and asked Nangong Ji, who was still standing on the edge of the bamboo fence: "Does anyone in the world still know about the Cao family now?" ”

Nangong Ji didn't know why, but he still replied: "The young man doesn't know, but if you are a little older or have read some records, you are very familiar with the Cao family." ”

"Then how did the Cao clan in their world die?"

"Kill all over the house."

"Why?"

Nangong Ji shook his head, "I don't know." ”

The man with tears on his face spread his hands, "Yes, there is no reason, the Cao family is still a loyal minister, and some people may think that the Cao family has been sacrificed, but if I go to take revenge, so many young people's affairs will be turned over again." ”