"Moreover, I heard that the people of the Sea Serpent Gang are also very fierce, I don't know what the result will be when they fight this time."

I was still thinking about the Franc machine artillery in my heart, and I didn't care too much about her worries, so I just said casually: "The one they fought before, isn't it very powerful?" Those people from the Sea Serpent Gang have no power to fight back, so they shouldn't have any difficulty. ”

Xue Muhua glanced at me, but the worry in his eyes deepened, and he shook his head gently.

I wondered, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's just a small group of pirates, and they don't have any weapons at all, so of course they have no chance of winning a fight with the big brother."

"That's right."

"However, the real power of the Sea Serpent Gang is not weak."

"Oh?"

"I heard them say that in fact, there were originally a lot of pirates in this sea area, but it is said that because of the ban on the sea in the past few years, the merchant ships coming and going by sea have gradually decreased, and those pirates have nowhere to plunder, and some of them can't hold on, so they simply return to the land and continue to do the business that has no capital, but there are some-"

I hurriedly asked, "How about some?" ”

"Some of them formed alliances in order to make ends meet and grow their power."

"Alliance?"

"Yes, an alliance." She nodded and said, "That Sea Serpent Gang, I heard that the previous power was not very big, but because of the alliance, it has annexed many other pirate teams, and now it is getting bigger and bigger, and it is already the largest pirate force in the East China Sea." ”

I immediately frowned, "If they can swallow up the other pirate teams, why don't they cross the sea and fly the clouds?" ”

Xue Muhua shook his head and said, "This, I don't know." Perhaps, the Tao is different, not to conspire with each other. ”

The Tao is different, not conspiring with each other?

I listened to this, pondered for a while, and understood a little more in my heart.

The Iron Mask King has been at sea for so many years, although he is recognized as a pirate, but he is not a real pirate, he has not robbed those merchant ships, but has been patrolling the sea, putting an end to the delusions of those who want to go to sea to find the Franc machine artillery, such an action is completely unprofitable, and those greedy pirates want to burn and loot the wealth, compared with people like them, the Iron Mask King's actions are actually more like a kind of asceticism.

Indeed, the Tao is different, and they do not conspire with each other.

It is no wonder that although the sea and flying clouds are very powerful, they have not been able to continue to grow.

"If there is really a fight this time...... Xue Muhua said worriedly, a few deep wrinkles appeared in the center of her eyebrows, and she was silent for a long time, she sighed lightly: "Hey, why do you have to kill people and shed blood?" ”

I glanced at her.

She seemed to notice my gaze and looked at me with a hint of doubt in her eyes, as if asking me what I was looking at.

I thought about it for a moment and said, "Miss Muhua, there's one thing I have been forgetting to ask you. Yuanfeng also went to sea this time, do you know? ”

Her expression froze for a moment.

But soon, she turned her head away from my gaze and said lightly, "I, I know." ”

"You know?"

"When Feiyun crossed the sea and fought against Yan Qinghan's boat before, I saw his boat appear."

“……”

"It's just that after I fell into the water, because the area was too chaotic, they didn't find me, but chased Yan Qinghan's boat away."

I hurriedly said, "He must have thought that you were still on that ship." ”

She was silent and acquiesced.

There is nothing to deny this, Pei Yuanfeng can't see her fall into the water and ignore it.

I looked at her somewhat dazed expression again, and after a while, I said softly, "Miss Muhua doesn't want to see him?" ”

She looked at me noncommittally, but asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

"I don't think you want to see him."

"And it's not just that I don't want to see it now."

"What do you mean?"

I looked at her somewhat stunned and evasive eyes, sighed lightly, and then said, "Miss Muhua encountered that accident on the way to send off her relatives, and then you took advantage of the chaos to escape, right?" ”

She nodded, and immediately said, "It's Wei Zhengbang's people who want to kidnap me." ”

I also nodded and said, "Since you are taking advantage of the chaos to escape, why don't you flee to the city, but to the outside of the city?" ”

“……”

She was startled by my question, but immediately said, "Someone is stopping me!" ”

I nodded: "Someone blocked your way, so you crossed the bridge, but after crossing the bridge, there is still a way to detour, the road in Chengdu City extends in all directions, you can't find a way to go back, but I heard later, you go straight out of the city, until your horse is exhausted, they catch it." ”

“……”

"You really don't want to be caught by Wei Zhengbang and them, but it seems that you don't want to go back to the Yan family, and you don't want to go back to your wedding hall at that time, right?"

Xue Muhua's face turned pale all of a sudden.

But he was stunned and did not speak.

I was almost sure of my guess, let out a long sigh, and asked, "Why?" ”

Her panicked expression seemed so helpless, as if the whole mask had been shattered by me at once, revealing her weakness in refusing to show people lightly, and all her indifferent guards were also ineffective at this moment, and even the strength to support her body was withdrawn, and she staggered back two steps, and suddenly fell to my bed.

At this moment, she is even weaker than me before.

Still, I insisted on asking her, "Why are you doing this?" You obviously know that day is a big day for you and Yuanfeng, and you also know how worried he is about you. ”

“……”

"Why didn't you go back to him?"

“……”

Listening to my forced questions one by one, Xue Muhua's body trembled slightly, and the corners of her eyes were a little red, she was silent for a long time, raised her head to look at me, and a childlike panicked and helpless look appeared on her face, which was so soft that it made people feel distressed: "I, I didn't mean to." ”

“……”

"I just- I don't know why, I did it suddenly, suddenly."

“……”

"I," she bit her lower lip, and her lip turned white from her bite, "It's not like I don't know why, but I don't know what to say......"

Seeing that she was a little incoherent, I slowly sat down next to her and said softly, "Don't you want to marry him?" ”

She shook her head silently.

"You don't want to see him?"

She shook her head, but seemed to hesitate, and after a moment, nodded again.

I immediately said, "Are you afraid to see him?" ”

“……”

"Why? What did he do to be sorry for you? ”

Xue Muhua hurriedly shook his head: "He didn't, he didn't do anything to be sorry for me, but-"

"Just what?"

She looked at me, and several times she wanted to speak, and her lower lip was almost bitten by her and she saw blood, and she struggled for a long time, and finally said, "I just, when I saw him fighting, I felt—I felt that he was so strange." ”

“……！”

Her gaze at me immediately became panicked and frightened, and even when I sat next to her, I felt her shoulders tremble violently: "In Nian Baoyuze, I saw him kill people like that, the dead people in one place are all blood, and his body is full of blood ......!" ”

For a while, my body also stiffened a little.

Almost instantly, my consciousness also returned to that time, in the battle of the three armies of Nian Baoyuze, that night was almost completely stained red with blood, the memory of being stained red with blood.

That's probably a nightmare that every one of us involved in it can't forget.

I remember that at that time, she had been sitting behind Pei Yuanfeng, every cavalry of the Dongchahe Division who was killed by Pei Yuanfeng died in front of her eyes, and the blood flowing from everyone's body was splashed on her body, and I even clearly remember the look of fear when her bloodstained hands were put down from her blood-covered face.

Although she has long known who Pei Yuanfeng is, and she must have understood what the war was all about, what she really experienced and what she heard were completely different things.

She is a healer, a healer who hangs pots to help the world, heals the sick and saves people, but that night, her future husband made her see another world completely different from her world.

Blood, carnage, screams, despair.

It was a world that she could not understand, and would never be able to fit into.

Looking back at this time, she has been very silent since that night, especially in the few days when we stayed in Tianmu Temple, even I clearly felt her absent-mindedness, although Pei Yuanfeng spent almost all of his time with her, and it didn't make her love better at all.

Later, when we returned to Chengdu, the Yan family had been busy with the marriage of the two of them, but at that time, as a bride, she was supposed to be busy with newlywed affairs, but she went to the hospital for several days in a row, as if she was deliberately avoiding Pei Yuanfeng.

At that time, we had doubts about whether it was possible for her to recover her memory, but the answer was no, after all, the dose of the marrow washing flower she took was very large, and the possibility of recovering her memory was very small.

It turned out that she had been hesitating since that time.

I couldn't help but get a little nervous, looking at the panicked expression on Xue Muhua's pale face, I hesitated for a long time before I said slowly: "Are you-do you regret it, don't you want to marry him?" ”

When she heard this, she immediately shook her head: "No! ”

“……”

"It's not that I don't want to marry him, I don't want to marry anyone else in my life except him!"

“……”

"I'm just- I'm just, my mind is messy."

She looked at me, her eyes were shining, she almost burst into tears, and choked up: "It's not that I don't want to marry him, I just - I just don't know how to tell him, I know that he is not wrong, if he does not go to war, it may be my relatives who die, and more likely him." I just can't forget that night. ”

“……”

"Our marriage has been decided a long time ago, I have been looking forward to it, and he has been looking forward to it. The battle was finally over, and the Yan family was up and down, and everyone was preparing for our marriage, if I sue him, I don't want to marry him, it will hurt him, and it is not my intention. I'm just- just trying to give myself a little time to think it through, but I'm afraid that if I regret the marriage, there will be no way to turn back, and I will hurt him. ”

I said softly: "So at that time, you subconsciously walked out of the city." ”

“……”

"You want to take that opportunity to leave, to give yourself time to think clearly, and he won't be ridiculed for your 'running away from marriage', after all, it was an accident, right?"

She nodded slightly, looked up at me again, and asked, "Shouldn't I do this?" Isn't it sorry for him? ”

I didn't know how to answer for a while, but looking at her panicked expression, I couldn't say anything else.

After thinking about it for a long time, I said softly, "You're not wrong. ”

“……”

"You are not willing to marry him with confusion and reluctance, it is because you respect yourself; You don't want to repent of hurting him, you protected him. ”

“……”

"It's just that you really shouldn't do that to make him worry."

Although my words blamed her, they also made her let go of the guilt in her heart a little, and her panicked expression relaxed a little.

She lowered her head and was silent for a long time before she said to me again: "Actually, I don't think he did anything wrong, really, Nian Baoyuze's big battle, it was he who protected everyone and protected Xichuan from those cavalry, he was right." ”

A faint smile crossed my face.

Indeed, war is the greatest evil in the world, and if we can avoid it, we should strive for it as much as possible.

However, this does not mean that we can be oppressed and slaughtered by others, and even if those who resist rape fight to the last one, their spirit will not fall!

I looked at Xue Muhua with a smile, and before I could comfort her, I heard her say softly: "Actually, these days, I have thought about it a lot, and I understand him more and more, especially after getting on this ship to cross the sea and flying clouds, and after meeting my eldest brother, I have also figured out many things." ”

“……！”

My heart thumped.

The eldest brother she said was - the Iron Mask King?

It's been on the boat for so long, I've seen the Iron Mask King, and I've learned so much about the years that my mind has become a little confused, but it's not until now that I've sorted out some things.

The Iron Mask King!

I subconsciously looked at Xue Muhua, when she mentioned the Iron Mask King, her face was very convincing, and her gentle expression made me immediately feel a trace of unease, even panic.

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Miss Muhua, you've seen iron—you've seen that, the mask—"

I didn't know what to tell her, but Xue Muhua said calmly: "You mean that mask of Big Brother Tie, I've seen him." ”

I suddenly became short of breath and looked at her cautiously: "You, have you seen his face?" ”

"Hmm." She nodded and said, "After I was rescued by them, I just woke up and saw his mask, and I thought I saw a ghost, so I hit him in the face, but I knocked the mask down and saw his face. ”

"And you, do you remember anything?"