Chapter Twenty-Four: Retreat
In the middle of a wave, the ship shook and swayed, and at the same time the voice of the soldiers sounded outside the cabin: "Lord Admiral! β
Hearing this, Liu frowned, Jing Che raised his defensive gaze, and asked vigilantly in his tone: "Are you the Admiral?" β
Chi Yuan didn't answer immediately, stood up and made a gesture, and said softly, "Silence." β
Jing Che was unrelenting: "It's clear, you-"
"Lord Admiral, your subordinates have something important to report!" It seems to have heard movement inside, and the voice of the person at the door is even more urgent.
Chi Yuan hurriedly covered Jing Che's mouth, fixed her at the head of the bed with the man's strong force, and replied in a calm voice: "What's the matter?" β
"There is a small boat in front of the left, and my subordinates have sent five people up in a row, but they have all gone."
Chi Yuan's eyes lit up, and he ordered: "Get close to that ship, I want to go up and see it myself." β
Hearing the footsteps in the distance, Chi Yuan let go of his hand, his face was happy, and he said to himself: "That ship must be a sword saint." β
Jing Che's face turned slightly red, he took a few breaths of air in embarrassment, glared at him unobtrusively, and his tone was extremely unkind: "You are also a lackey of the Lincang people, and you came to arrest me and Baili Feng to invite merit?" β
Chi Yuan was suddenly speechless, and all kinds of words flashed in his mind but were completely denied, and he could only blurt out: "You believe me, I am definitely not a bad person." β
laughed and sneered: "Then you have to believe me, I am definitely not a woman." β
Chi Yuan was stunned, suddenly dumbfounded, and said helplessly: "Grandma, since I am a bad person, then you should have some hostage consciousness, right?" β
"What realization?" The body tucked into the corners of the quilt shrank suddenly, revealing only a pair of narrow phoenix eyes, squinting slightly to reveal a little uneasiness.
"It's the realization that I'm under house arrestβ" Chi Yuan said, "so until I come back, I'm not allowed to go out in this cabin." β
"Repair it too." He called out again without hesitation, and the door opened a crack at the sound, and a sturdy black shadow rushed in, kneeling on one knee, waiting for orders.
"Look after her." Chi Yuan got up and walked out as if fleeing.
He finally understood, and the man mentioned to him in the letter, "The Sword Saint still has a newly recruited apprentice, and he is a girl who seems to be a group of amiable, but it is very difficult to get rid of."
As soon as he walked out of the door, Chi Yuan raised his face with a majestic face again, and stood on the deck, it was the majestic Admiral.
"Lord Admiral, do you really want to go alone?" A sailor asked from the side.
"A bunch of waste, it's useless to follow me," he said quietly, glancing at the man again, "Then you can go down with me." β
The sailor was stunned, and his face was as pale as earth in an instant, but he had no choice but to disobey the governor's order, so he had to go down with Chi Yuan.
The boat stood still, and was aboard the lowered rope, and Chi Yuan left the sailor on the deck to wait, and entered the cabin himself.
There was no candle in the cabin, and it was pitch black. He groped his way forward slowly, and suddenly bumped into something soft on his foot. Leaning over to investigate, it was his men who were sailors.
His heart became clearer and clearer, and when he stood up again, he suddenly felt a cold and sharp touch in his neck, and Chi Yuan's body stiffened.
There are people behind him.
The man was silent for a long time, and suddenly the sword body tossed and turned, and went a little deeper, with a tired laziness in his voice: "Oh? Not an ordinary sailor? β
"Admiral Chi Yuan in the Navy."
"Coming to make meritorious service?" With a mocking smile, Baili Fengma paced in front of him and looked him up and down - he didn't have anything to defend himself with, was this too confident, or too stupid?
Chi Yuanmian looked fearlessly at the stubble on the protruding and wanton chin of the hundred miles of wind, and said word by word: "I came here to find the Sword Saint." β
"To seek me is to seek death, I don't know if Lord Chiyuan has heard of it?"
Chi Yuan said with a smile: "After listening to the Sword Saint first, my biological mother is a disciple of the main peak of the Southern Dome Sect of Jiahuang Mountain, Zhu Mo. β
The sword clung to the skin, and even the slightest tremor was felt very clearly. Chi Yuan knew that he believed it, and took out a blue sword spike from his bosom and handed it to Baili Kazama.
Placed in the palm of his hand, he unconsciously clenched it hard, as if he was holding a hundred years of heavy years in his hand, and sighed: "I recognize it, it is the sword spike of Zhu Mo... I always thought ......"
"After the failure of the restoration that year, my mother was arrested and about to be executed like everyone else...... At that time, a Lincang soldier risked his life to rescue his mother and took his mother to hide in Xuzhou City, so that he could save his life. β
"That Zhu Mo is ...... now"
"My mother died of illness twenty years ago."
It is clearly expected, but when I repeat it again, when I hear it again, it is another kind of sadness.
He was able to escape from the world after the restoration of the country that year, and he and the entire Southern Dome Sect participated in that huge restoration. When he was defeated and retreated, he and Zhu Mobing retreated in two ways, and at that time he already knew that she was seriously injured, and even if she could save her life, it would be short.
Zhu Mo, who was still a hot-blooded girl that year, cried in front of him when they separated. Brother and sister of the same faction, she unabashedly liked him for ten years, suffered from everyone's gossip, endured his rejection in every way, and until she died heroically, the last requirement was whether she could hug him.
He has been uninhibited all his life, stopping and passing by countless women, but it is difficult to arouse his slightest emotion. Except for the woman who loved and hurt him the most, Zhu Mo had a very vivid impression, and he felt guilty about Zhu Mo.
He didn't even think it was worth it for her, and his true feelings for him were like a stone sinking into the sea, with no response, and what he did was useless, and he had to bear the pain of tossing and turning. However, now that he learned that she had become her own son and returned to the fishing village, she had also had such a meager period of peace, and he was relieved in his heart.
The day of youth flies by in an instant, and how many people are retreating to the next best thing, because they are really restrained by time and cannot afford to consume it. And what about him, even though he is alive and well now, what has he had in these hundred years?
Baili Fengma suddenly came back to his senses, and his handsome face was immersed in an unprecedented vicissitudes. He smiled bitterly, and his voice was slightly dry: "Chi Yuan, what about you?" Why did you become a naval commander? β
"If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger." Chi Yuan said, with a shocking resoluteness in his tone.
sighed: "With you, Qiying, and Zuo Tingzhi in the Restoration Army, you will be able to achieve great things." β
Hearing Zuo Tingzhi's name, Chi Yuan's eyes trembled slightly and wandered away.
Knowing that the actions of the previous two were in vain, he didn't say anything more at this moment to persuade Baili Fengma to stay and fight side by side with them, but instead said: "Archer is already on my ship, does the Sword Master want to go with me on the ship?" β
Baili Fengma's face was happy, and he was also relieved: "Can you really do it? How is Ache? Are you hurt? β
"It's all skin wounds, it's just ......" The voice suddenly became hesitant, and the words behind him were difficult to speak, how to tell him that Ah Che's resistance and resistance to his master was so obvious.
"Just what?"
"Let's get on the boat - I brought a sailor, Xiao Ye's eyeliner in our army, and the Sword Master can temporarily take his place and blend into the ship."
And Jing Che was also kept in the room, which was the first time he met a nemesis in his life.
No matter what she said, Ye Xiu was indifferent, keeping a straight face and not saying a word from beginning to end. No matter what she does, Yexiu can always respond to all changes with the same, in order to force him to speak, she even pulls his face and plays with his nose and twists his ears, but he is like a wooden man, standing still.
The whole iceberg. It's just an iceberg that looks quite attractive.
Jing Che completely lost, lay back on the bed, and was about to fall asleep in boredom, when he suddenly heard a movement at the door.
He sat up weakly like a corpse, looked at the door gloomily, and saw the two people who came in, and his expression suddenly froze.
quickly pulled the quilt over his head to cover his whole person, and a muffled voice seemed to contain a faint cry: "I don't see, tell him to get out." β
Before one foot of the hundred miles of wind had stepped into the door, he retreated when he heard the words.
On the way here, I had mixed feelings in my heart, and even a little apprehension. This was a nervousness he had never felt before, in fact, he didn't necessarily know how to face his little apprentice.
The sound of her clothes tearing still lingered, and her pleading eyes and resolute leap down were still vivid. The coldness of the bright moon seemed to still remain on his body, and the powerlessness in his heart was like a whole turbulent sea about to drown him.
His struggle was by no means half a point less than hers. But he knows very well that her world is unwilling to compromise and unwilling to transition, either hating passionately or loving purely. Just as she was in front of him, she was inseparable when she was angry, and inseparable when she was meek.
The first few times were due to the tragedy of their character, a rebellious, proud person is destined to have friction, but it is not impossible to solve. However, this time, it was a master-apprentice catastrophe destined by fate, and he didn't even know how to redeem it.
"I'm going to persuade her?" Chi Yuan looked inquiringly at Baili Kazama.
When Baili Kazuma is not smiling, his expression is like a bottomless black hole. He shook his head and motioned for himself to go in alone.
Ye Xiu and Chi Yuan both retreated and closed the door. Baili Feng paused before slowly pacing to her bedside.
The quilt trembled slightly, and the girl only showed her long black and messy hair and the hands holding the corners of the quilt.
Without saying a word, he looked out the half-branch window through the curling sandalwood. The sea is surprisingly calm, and the gentle waves seem to be playing a lamentation.
The stormy waves that had been set off in the night were now gone, and the gentle sunlight replaced the cold moonlight, and the sea was still there.
He sat at the head of her bed, his voice full of irrevocable exhaustion.
He said, "Ah Che, come back to Jiahuang Mountain with me first, there are many highly respected seniors in the Southern Dome Sect, you can choose another apprentice by yourself." β