The twilight was dim, and large patches of wet snow flew around the peach trees, falling on the petals of the branches, accumulating into a soft, thin layer.

Gu Changan wandered around the peach tree a few times, slowly leaned against the tree and sat down, staring at the brilliant flower core for a long time.

It's ridiculous that he can't even cut himself off.

I have thought about it countless times, and when the sword is against my neck, I am handcuffed by this city.

Now that the mission has been completed and a happy ending has been given to the sixty-four years of story, I can finally be liberated but find that there is nowhere to start.

How to kill souls?

This is the wrath of a brute dog.

It is also Gu Changan's own doubts.

But he knows very well that the obsession with guarding the house is gradually disintegrating, and as long as he does not condense his physical body, the soul will be able to enter the countdown.

It's really tiring to go all the way, and I have been worthy of the nation in my life, and I haven't lived up to the old soldiers who defend the city, which is enough.

The silent desert was creaking, leaving two rows of wheels running over in the snow, and a carriage gradually came into view.

The empress faced the wind and snow, her delicate and flawless cheeks showed a smile, pretending to be casual greetings:

"See you again."

Gu Changan didn't speak, just stared at her.

"I want to find a quiet place to cultivate, and the Lonely City is the most suitable." Li Wan was a little restrained, and after speaking, he drove his horse close to the peach blossom tree.

"You don't have to feel guilty." The soul shadow didn't look at her again, and said in a deep voice:

"The lord of a country ignores the society, don't you think your actions are stupid and absurd?"

"Oh." Li Wan nodded his chin and didn't explain anything, just continued to drive towards the city gate and asked rhetorically:

"In the territory of the Tang Dynasty, I should have the right to live for a long time, right?"

Without waiting for an answer, he took it upon himself to enter the city and settle down.

Although she didn't dare to say that she was a female middle school Yao Shun, she was still 108,000 miles away from being mediocre and ignorant.

made a decision, and naturally secretly arranged various stability maintenance measures, and besides, Pei Jingshu was fully capable of handling the government affairs of the three states.

Looking at her back, Gu Changan's eyes were confused, he had no reason to expel him, and perhaps deep down he didn't want to refuse the care from the Central Plains.

He smiled suddenly, it's pitiful to die alone, and it's good to have someone to watch it.

……

Li Wan was busy for several hours, approaching the middle of the night to walk up to the city, tonight there was no moonlight, the phantom and the darkness were integrated, through the faint light of the lantern, only to distinguish the motionless black fog of the watchtower.

"The barbarians will definitely not dare to come again, do they still have to wither?" She sat next to her, chatting with an old friend, like a waterfall and green silk dancing in the wind.

"Get used to it." Gu Changan said.

"You can try to change." Li Wan stared at him.

Quiet and silent.

didn't seem to realize that he was cold after chatting for a few sentences, Li Wan's expression was slightly unnatural, and he opened the topic and asked:

"Tell me about when you were a child, and listen to you slowly."

Gu Changan was still silent, his youth was lackluster, and he suddenly noticed that there was a Buddhist shrine lying alone in the corner of the watchtower.

With a shake of his wrist, the shrine falls into the palm of his hand.

"You give it back to a monk named Speculative and thank him for his gift on my behalf, but it doesn't belong to me."

Gu Changan handed it to the empress.

Li Wan was slightly stunned, hummed softly, and then talked about his girlhood time, the journey of fighting the sword to the end of the world will always accumulate a lot of memories, experience interesting things in the rivers and lakes, and witness all kinds of life.

Gu Changan listened carefully to her trivial narration, and sketched a picture of the rivers and lakes in his mind.

Carrying a three-foot Qingfeng to sweep all the injustices, a boat drifting and navigating the scenery of the two gorges, unrestrained, free, this is the chivalrous life in the dream.

Looking at his quiet listening posture, Li Bang's eyes flickered for a moment, and he asked in a ghostly manner:

"If you leave the Lonely City when you are ten years old, what will happen to you in the rest of your life?"

Gu Changan didn't answer.

"With unparalleled martial arts talent, he has lived a hearty life, and even went to the moon for nine days to pursue the road of immortality."

Li Wan's voice became lower and lower, and when he finally turned his head, the candle flame reflected a pair of red eyes.

Diametrically opposed lives.

On the one hand, he was suffering and despair, and on the other hand, he was free and wanton, and the national righteousness completely destroyed him.

Gu Changan left the city and floated under the peach tree, he didn't want to dwell on the memories of the past, it was the same choice to do it again, he just wanted to be happy for the rest of the time.

It was the only day in his life that he lived for himself.

Li Wanxi moved his lips, looked up at the never-ending snow, and after hesitating for a moment, he said sonorously:

"Take me away!"

Like the sound of gold and stone, it reverberates endlessly in the snowy night.

"Borrowing a corpse to resurrect a soul, don't mind if I'm a woman." Her eyes were full of anticipation, and she stared straight at the peach tree.

"There are too many Taoist classics, thinking that any bizarre conjecture can come true?" Gu Changan asked rhetorically.

"I'm willing to try." Li Wan's attitude was resolute, and there was no hint of retreat in his eyes.

It doesn't hurt to fail, she pays off with a death.

If it succeeds, Gu Changan will lead the rise of the Tang Dynasty and recast the glorious glory of the coming dynasty of all countries.

For the Chinese nation, Gu Changan must be more important than her Li Wan.

"I have no right to deprive you of your life, and I will ask you to leave if you say anything else." Gu Changan was indifferent.

It seems that only Grandpa Qin knows in the world that he doesn't want to die, but he doesn't want to live.

Li Wan's eyes darkened, and finally sighed softly.

The ghost is unprecedented, and it is nonsense to take away the fear, but she is willing to try with her life in exchange for a new life for that man.

But Gu Changan didn't think about it at all, and her tough attitude directly cut off her thoughts.

Li Wan stood there silently twitching her fingers from time to time, as if looking for a new topic, and the work of guiding the conversation was still too painful for her, she was cold and withdrawn, and she didn't know how to show enthusiasm.

"Stop talking and do your own thing." Gu Changan sensed her embarrassment and said calmly.

Li Wan was relieved, meditated and cultivated cross-legged, without any state affairs for the time being, and concentrated on condensing the internal qi of the entity.

……

As the days passed, Li Wan gradually liked this boring life, and the two couldn't even say a word all day, sitting at each other's heads like sculptures, but being quiet was not a kind of comfort.

Her cultivation is rising rapidly, Pei Jingshu transmits messages every three or five times, nothing happens in the court, there are many good families in the Central Plains who take the initiative to join the army, and protecting the family and defending the country is not just a slogan, it seems to be a trend of faith.

As time passed, it seemed that everything was slowly getting better, but how could he get darker and darker, and the once thick black fog was now shallow.

Heaven and earth sounded two voices, one clear and one hoarse.

"The master of the academy is about to knock on the door of heaven, and he said that you gave him the courage to make a desperate bet, either a land immortal, or die;

Jinling Academy gushes out a long river of purple qi, and at most more than a month, the land of Shenzhou will usher in the first half-open heavenly gate. ”

"Hmm."

"The barbarians invaded Zhao and Shu at the same time seven days ago, and with the advantage of the Hexi Corridor, Beiliang can quickly support Zhao."

"Hmm."

Li Wan told the Central Plains about the recent big and small things, and occasionally there would be a response from the other side, and I don't know if I was listening carefully.

"Sometimes I am very afraid, maybe one day the Chinese nation will be defeated, maybe we can't continue the ancient civilization if we fight to the death, maybe the sky really wants to destroy our hard-working people."

Her voice was suddenly low, and watching the shadow of her soul darkening day by day always breeds a sense of powerlessness and even despair.

"Think about where you stand, a group of old soldiers can swear to hold on for decades, 70 million people in China, burning bones into mounds, spilling blood into rivers, and they must also expel the barbarians!"

A hoarse and resolute voice came from under the peach tree.

Li Wan was silent, and it seemed that only when he mentioned the national righteousness would he have strong emotional fluctuations.

Gu Changan laughed at himself, always thinking that he would remove the national chains when he completed his mission, but the chains had already entangled his soul.

It is precisely in this way that he does not dare to recast his body, and he cannot be free to live at will, but another reincarnation full of wounds, killing the enemy and killing the enemy, endlessly.

Born in a lonely city, he had no choice, he had no choice to shoulder the heavy responsibility, and at the last moment of his life, he always had a choice.

……

In the blink of an eye, it was winter, and a strange scene suddenly appeared in the lonely city last night, and the nineteen sword qi was suspended in the air, and Li Wan broke through the realm of enlightenment.

But breaking through the realm could not bring any joy, the soul shadow was getting worse and worse, and he could no longer see the face clearly, and he was more and more fond of the peach blossom tree.

"Who will save him......" Li Wan stood against the railing, she knew that Gu Chang'an's demise was irreversible, but she still expected a miracle.

Beep Pavilion

He has never been out of the city, but he understands a lot of truths, from astronomical philosophy to folk farming, and occasionally says some words, Li Wan feels that he has benefited a lot.

Gu Changan can see farther than anyone else, but the more this happens, the more sad she becomes, if she had known about the lonely city of Wanli earlier, she would rather leave a stench for a thousand years and order not to guard.

The sky color pigeons flew in the snow, stopped on the railing and chirped non-stop.

Li Wan removed the silk book tied to its lap as usual, and the silk book was sandwiched with a piece of letterhead.

She took a cursory look, and suddenly felt that the thunderbolt was pale, and she was clutching the letterhead in her hand, and her strength almost tore the page.

Li Wan tried his best to restrain his sorrow, pretended to be calm, slowly came to the tree, and said softly:

"Carpenter Qin is gone."

The black mist stiffened at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if it was bound by an invisible force, and it had not moved for a long time.

"How did you die?" Gu Changan turned around and seemed to ask very calmly.

Li Wan didn't answer him directly, but said: "The imperial court took care of the aftermath and was buried in the Martyrs' Cemetery." ”

For a long time after that, the two did not speak again, but quietly stared at the crow circling the peach branch.

Gu Changan seemed to be indifferent to the scene of the crow eating the peach petals, but he kept listening to the sound of falling snow.

He paused for a moment and did not speak, then suddenly asked:

"Suicide?"

Li Wan looked sad: "Yes." ”

After speaking, he handed over the folded letterhead.

Gu Chang'an was expressionless, and he browsed very calmly, and his handwriting was like a crab walking.

"Chang'an, the moment you saw the letter, the old man was already smiling."

"I remember we told a joke that there was an unlucky prisoner surnamed Cui during the Zhenguan period, and he couldn't get his turn every time the court granted amnesty, and he has been in a cell for forty years."

"It's finally out, should the Cui prisoner change his mind and be a new person? A few days later, he deliberately stole the store and wanted to go to prison, but he was old and old, and the court took pity on him, so he just let it go with a verbal lesson. ”

"The next day, the Choi prisoner hanged himself at home."

"He left a suicide note, saying that he couldn't leave the prison and that his life outside made him miserable all the time."

"In the past, the old man didn't understand, how stupid would he kill himself?"

"Hahahaha, I'm going to hang myself after writing the letter."

"Sixty-four years of life is like being able to make a wooden box with your eyes closed, and the traces and details have long been carved into my heart.

"I only have Qiuzi City in my mind, I feel the smell of yellow sand in my meat when I eat a sea bass, and everything looks like a piece of bricks and stones on the city wall, and my chess friends often have dementia when they see me, and comfort me to learn to adapt to a good life first."

"Alas, sixty-four years is too long, so long that the old man's soul is imprisoned in the city."

"That's right, the government informed the old man the day before yesterday that your grandmother Xu hanged herself, she said that life is boring, there is no lonely city, no Chang'an, no yellow sand, she doesn't know how to live."

"She knitted a lot of thick clothes, ran to the government and begged to send them to the Western Regions, and when she returned home, she was breathless."

"Don't be sad, you can die in your hometown, that's what we Anxi people dream of."

Gu Changan's gaze gradually became cloudy, and a misty white mist seemed to rise in front of him, but no matter what, no tears rolled down.

"The old man's life must have a beginning and an end, I can die in my homeland ancestral house, and I can also have the villagers of Qinjia Village carry the coffin for the funeral, I don't know how many old men will be envious."

"It's just...... It's just that, the old man thinks about you every day, do you sleep well? Are there still barbarians attacking the city? Are you still there? ”

"If you can see the letter, please fulfill the old man's last wish."

"Go to the Central Plains, if you really don't want to live, you have to go to Chang'an City to say goodbye."

"This is what you wanted when you were a child, and you have to have a beginning and an end."

"Anyway, the old man is forcing you, if you don't go to Chang'an City, the old man won't be blind."

"If there is a next life, I can't be a cripple and a burden, I will definitely accompany you to defend the city, and we will kill happily."

"Gone."

The phantom seemed to be gradually cracking, his hands and feet were twitching violently, Gu Changan hurriedly leaned on the trunk of the tree and tore up the letters again and again.

Vaguely, the old man appeared in the wind and sand again, jolting up, revealing a mouthful of old yellow teeth, but he was clearly dripping hot blood.

Looking at the black mist writhing wildly, Li Wan felt a little difficult to breathe, her chest seemed to be pressed with a heavy object, she opened her mouth, but there was no sound.

Mustering up her courage, she walked to her side step by step, raised her arm and hugged Gu Changan, just wanting to convey even a trace of temperature.

Gu Changan was silent, his shoulder blades trembled and twitched, and his choked voice almost whispered:

"My relatives were all buried by me, and I buried them all with my own hands, Grandpa Qin has been with me for the longest time, but I haven't been able to bury him."

"I can't live a comfortable life with hard work, why do I have to die in front of me!

”

Such a sentence was like a needle penetrating this cold night and nailing into Li Wan's heart, she held back her tears and gently patted Gu Changan's back, and every time she patted it, she scattered a lot of mist.

The fog became thinner and thinner, and Li Wan was afraid that a gust of wind would blow away.

Will it be able to survive until the beginning of spring next year?

Gu Changan muttered bitterly: "Grandpa Qin, I promise you, I will go to Chang'an City." ”

Li Wan was shocked, slowly let go of him, and stared at him with red eyes:

"I'll take you home."

……

PS: Make up the second update at 6 p.m.