The next morning, Ye Ming was told that he was fine after a doctor's examination and could be discharged from the hospital.

Ye Ming, who walked out of the sanatorium, saw Gu Lan sleeping on the chairs in the hall, she was lying there with her arms on her pillow, breathing long, and she had fallen asleep deeply. Of course, Ye Ming didn't know what happened yesterday, so she just said that she was here waiting for her to be discharged from the hospital. Although judging from the results, Gu Lan was indeed waiting for Ye Ming, but the process was very exciting.

After a while, Gu Lan woke up and found Ye Ming waiting on the side, and asked directly, "Can you already be discharged from the hospital?" Gu Lan stretched out his hand and motioned for Ye Ming to pull her up.

"Yes. Ye Ming Ragulan sat up, "Do you want me to send you back to rest first?"

Gulan yawned and said no, rubbed his slightly messy hair, and got up, "Let me take you to the faculty and staff's quarters first." ”

The Hamine Castle of Shurain is divided into six pentagonal rings, which are increased in height and surrounded by them from the outside to the inside, with the sixth building on the periphery for students, the fourth building on the inner part for the staff building, the fifth building for the teaching building, and the outer building for the students' dormitories. The dormitory is not bad in terms of living conditions, and the four-bedroom and one-bedroom apartment assigned by each teacher are quite spacious for Ye Ming, a bachelor.

"Sleeping utensils, tea sets, furniture, and washing utensils, the academy will help you prepare them, and Mao Huang can also live here when he comes back," Gu Lan glanced at the kennel at the door, and then exited Ye Ming's room, "In addition, the cafeteria in the academy is open to faculty members at any time, and it is free." If you want to wear clothes, you can go out of town and buy a few sets, you stink, it's time to change. ”

Gulan pointed out the window, only to remember that this was not a student building, and he could not see the outer city.

"In short, outside Yufeng City is a circular outer city and suburbs, and the outer city is very prosperous, with all kinds of shops," Gu Lan handed Ye Ming a small bag of money, "I know you won't take a woman's money, there are ten gold coins in it, wait until you receive the first month's monthly money and then pay me back." That's pretty much it, then I'm leaving. ”

Gulan is very purposeful, and he leaves when he finishes it, and he doesn't stay long. Although it helped a lot, it seemed too impersonal.

When she saw that Gu Lan was leaving, Ye Ming stopped her.

"What else?" asked Guran looking back.

Ye Ming shook his head and bowed slightly, "Thank you." ”

Gu Lan was stunned and replied, "I will charge interest on the money I borrowed from you, and I will pay it back twice as much." ”

She seems to be using her actions to explain that she doesn't need to thank her, and she has a very unlovely personality.

"Uh...... The highest profit in the rivers and lakes is only seven cents in January...... How can you get double?"

"Okay, I'm leaving," Gulan pouted, smiling, "be a good teacher." ”

Gulan said to go and left, she needed to rest after a night of traveling.

Ye Ming took the money given by Gu Lan, and left Yufeng City through the outer city gate to come to the outer city, which is a local residential area, and it is also where the market and shops are located.

The streets of the outer city are wide, and the walls and floors are paved with gray-white bricks. It was early in the morning, and the morning sun was shining on the streets. The roads are crisscrossed and the houses are lined up. You can see that the spaced houses on the roadside are quite compact, and they are even connected to each other in dense places, stretching out for several buildings.

"It's a bustling atmosphere. ”

The streets close to Yufeng City are relatively deserted, but if you walk another street, you can see the shops trading goods on both sides and the pedestrians who come and go gradually increase, the goods sold in the shops are full of dazzling, green fruits and red wines, colorful colors, most of the items Ye Ming has never seen, and the pedestrians are wearing clothes that are very different from themselves.

The city was bustling with people, shouting, laughing, horses' hooves, metal crashing, wheels rolling, and the cries of some beasts, birds, and birds, as well as strange sounds that Ye Ming had never heard before. The noise is not like the churning of the waves, but it does have the momentum of boiling water.

The prosperity and liveliness of the outer city made Ye Ming greatly impressed, compared to the quiet atmosphere in the Shura Temple, it was like two worlds. Ye Ming was more familiar with the noise, where he could see many strange races, and it felt like a gathering of rivers and lakes.

Ye Ming asked for directions and found the largest tailor shop in the outer city, this shop looked very high-grade and pompous, and he didn't know if the little money on Ye Ming was enough to buy clothes here.

After entering the store, the kanban lady asked Ye Ming with a smile what he needed, and Ye Ming only said that he would take a look at it at will.

By visiting the store, Ye Ming found that the people here were too different from his own clothes. He was not used to wearing the clothes of the people here, so he bought two pieces of cotton cloth and showed the shopkeeper how to cut and sew them.

The shopkeeper saw that he was dressed strangely and covered in dust, which was not the same thing, but Ye Ming seemed to have a reason when talking about the structure of the robe, so he called a few tailors to listen to the lecture, and after finishing one morning, six skillful tailors worked together to make a so-so navy blue dark coat.

Ye Ming changed his clothes, and when he was about to pay, the shopkeeper said that he didn't need to, he just wanted to borrow the old clothes that Ye Ming had changed to study, and make two more sets of clothes for Ye Ming, and return them to him when he came to pick them up. These two sets are also free of charge.

Ye Ming naturally understood the meaning of this shop, and said before leaving: "The Han people's clothes and decorations are neat and tidy, and they will definitely become an opportunity for business." ”

After changing into new clothes, Ye Ming went to find a blacksmith shop, which was still the best shop in the outer city.

"I want to forge a sheath for this sword. ”

The blacksmith's name is Bernie, and he is a bearded dwarf who is extremely delicate in his work and has high requirements for his work.

Bernie's eyes were not bad, he glanced at Ben Mo, and said, "The scabbard of this sword will receive two hundred gold." ”

"There's no money, but this big brother—"

"Leave. ”

"-Oh. ”

No money is really still a hard injury, unlike Mao Huang's imagination, he did not use the privileges of martial arts people to smash and rob, and Ye Ming left like an ordinary poor person. After finding a place to eat, Ye Ming bought some melons and fruits to visit Barrett, who was still hospitalized.

Barrett was transferred to a single room, Ye Ming followed Camille to Barrett's ward, knocked on the door and greeted: "Senior Barrett, how is the wound, the junior has come to visit." ”

"Come in," Barrett beckoned him to come in and sit down, sighing, "you know how to respect the elderly, and you have come to visit me." ”

Ye Ming seemed a little sad when he heard his tone, and replied: "There are customs in my hometown, and the elders must be respected. ”

"That's a good place, the old man yearns for it. Barrett asked, "Are you homesick?"

Ye Ming hesitated for a while, then thought of Leng Wushuang again, and shook his head slightly, "There are sad things left in my hometown, and I don't want to see them again." ”

Barrett saw his sad expression and said with a smile: "How many sad things can you have as a little kid? You will always understand the things about your hometown, your hometown is very attractive to people, and the bond between the two cannot be blocked by one or two sad things. ”

Hearing Barrett say this, Ye Ming also thought of some past events: I don't know what happened to the master in retreat, the second senior brother Lu Yi is afraid that he is a lot sad for me, and he is the most concerned about me in addition to the master. Is the little nephew Zhong Zichen still having a runny nose and a cold frost...... Did she ever feel guilty for me? Did Master punish her......

"Alas......" Thinking of this, his heart was full of mixed feelings, and Ye Ming couldn't help but sigh.

Barrett saw his melancholy expression and comforted: "If you want to go back, there is a way, if you don't want to go back, you can wander here first, with your ability, the future is limitless, and of course there can be a wonderful part of you in this world." Boy, you have to go out and work hard, and when you are tired, you will start sighing like the old man and me, and now you should start a career. ”

"The seniors taught us. ”

"Where to talk about a lesson, it's just a nagging that is about to die. Barrett patted his right knee knee, "This injury, I just retired from office, and the swordsmanship department will be handed over to you." I can see that your swordsmanship is extremely exquisite, and you are much better than me, and you must be able to do better than me, an old man who often fails. ”

"Where did the predecessors come from," Ye Ming replied, "Any master in the rivers and lakes does not dare to say that he is invincible in a hundred battles even if he is always victorious in this life, but it is rare for his predecessors to be invincible in a hundred battles." The battlefield is ruthless, and if the will of heaven allows the predecessors to survive, there must be great things. ”

"Hahaha...... Ahem!" Barrett coughed with laughter, gasped and replied: "A general also told me what you said, he said that victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and there is no need to mind a few defeats, success is only one move." Barrett paused slightly, "Finally, I saw with my own eyes that this general was invincible, and finally cut himself in the military tent. ”

Ye Ming had nothing to say, and Barrett continued: "But I admit it, at least this heart is right, old man, I also believe that the fate of ups and downs is to make people brilliant again, as for the result...... There will always be, don't force it. ”

"That's what the seniors said. ”

The two dispersed after a few conversations, and three days later, Ye Ming came to visit Barrett again, just in time to see him recover from his injuries and be discharged from the hospital. Strangely, Ye Ming saw the wound on Barrett's knee, which was undoubtedly a sword wound......

"Senior," Ye Ming asked tentatively, "I still don't know where the injury on your knee came from?"

Barrett looked cold and asked, "Why do you ask this?"

Ye Ming saw that his expression changed greatly, and he didn't know how to respond, so he said truthfully: "I see that it seems to be a sword creation ......."

After a moment of hesitation, Barrett laughed out loud and let Ye Ming talk to him alone.

"You know, the old man is really ...... I want to rest. Barrett whispered to Ye Ming: "I can't win a hundred battles, and I can't breathe...... I actually tried my best on the battlefield and never backed down. It is not easy to survive every battle, but the eyes of others look at me not at a warrior, but at a deserter. ”

"How can it be so ......?"

"That's it, there's a lot of things in this world that don't make sense, at least you can't find a reason to blame it. Barrett said, "I can survive the siege and the siege, no matter how devastating the desperate situation, although I myself have been desperate, but this is the case." It doesn't make sense, I don't know why fate favored me so much, kept me alive, and made me invincible for a long time. ”

Ye Ming said: "We have a saint there who said that the heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds...... You ...... naturally"

"But I don't want to hold on any longer," Barrett interrupted Ye Ming's words, "When I was a child, when I first participated in the war, someone said that I was a natural soldier, maybe it was a lie to encourage me, but I believed it like this for a long time, until I looked back and found that I could no longer do anything but fight. That's right, I'm a soldier, I make a living out of it, I only fight, that's why I keep fighting. ”

"There are many times when I want to believe, and I can only believe that fate is for future success, but I am really not that strong to persevere. Barriet's brows furrowed, his expression a little painful, "In this life, there are dozens of generals I have seen alone, and they are all dead, and I can't count the suicides alone." They're dead, but I'm still alive, and these fiascos are not just results, they're nightmares that haunt me for the rest of my life. ”

"Life is supposed to have ups and downs, isn't it? But why am I always doing this? I can't stand it, I can't hold on," Barrett put his hand on the knee of his hand, "so I did it, I couldn't hold on for a moment, I wanted to leave." At least in my old age, please let me go back to my hometown and spend my old age as an ordinary old man......"

His life is really tragic, nine deaths, ninety-nine deaths, but he does not get the reward after paying, and he has to live with infamy and contempt, who can endure like him until now? No, no one can be as strong as him.

"Enough, you should rest when you're tired," Barrett said with a wry smile, "Forgive me for being a deserter once, but the last time, but the first time, it's ironic......"

After hearing this cruel and desperate story, Ye Ming could only reply: "At least...... It is much better and much better for the seniors to be able to return to their hometowns than those who died on the battlefield. ”

Barrett was silent for a long time and muttered, "That's right, yes...... It's more or less a reward, and it's finally over. ”

Ye Ming sent Barrett all the way out of the city, Barrett got into the carriage and patted Ye Ming on the shoulder: "The old man is alone here, and no one can talk to him...... You young man is really good at being a man, I don't see that girl from Lorraine can be like you, but she is really ignorant. ”

"Miss Lorraine should have other things to do. ”

"You're really kind," Barrett said, "Although we haven't known each other for a long time, I can see that you are not a bad person, and I hope you can change Luolin's concept of otherworldly people, this little girl's heart is very sick." ”

Ye Ming asked, "What's wrong with Miss Luolin?"

"Do you see his attitude towards you?"

Ye Ming said: "Extremely bad. ”

Barrett said: "She is also a hard-working person, but she has a good heart, I hope you can bear with it on weekdays......"

"He's my savior, as he deserves. Ye Ming then asked, "What happened to Miss Luolin before?"

"I occasionally have a drink with Director Angus, and I heard it from him by accident. These are other people's private matters, I can't talk nonsense, if you have the heart, you might as well go and ask Luolin in person. Barrett looked at the sun, "It's almost time, it's time for me to say goodbye." ”

"Seniors had a good trip. ”

"Borrow your young man's good words. Barrett drove away and said: "It's really hard to say about such a thing as fate, everyone is unfortunate in life, and no one can have no regrets." If the legend of the Golden Dog is true, I really hope that it can make all living beings in the world happy......"

Ye Ming watched his carriage leave, unable to let go for a long time. When I came back to my senses, there was one more person by my side, and it was Angus.

"Angus senior?"

Angus looked at Barrett's carriage and said a word, until the carriage gradually disappeared into the horizon, and then said leisurely, "It's hard work." Then he turned and left.

Ye Ming froze in place and didn't know what to do, Angus turned around and shouted, "It's time for you to teach, are you going to strike too?" Teacher Ye Ming?"

"Oh!" Ye Ming followed Angus in response.

The two of them walked on the way home one after the other, and their hearts were frequently stirred up by Angus's words, and they couldn't be at peace for a long time.