"There's nothing wrong, right?" Shikawa stabbed Sterling in the waist.

"Ah, oh, what?" Sterling said incoherently, "What's wrong?"

Zi Chuanxiu glanced at him strangely and didn't speak.

Sterling immediately regained his composure and strode into the living room.

Looking at his back, Zi Chuanxiu's eyes were full of worry: "I hope it's not as I expected..."

Roger, Shirakawa, and Nagakawa immediately stood up and saluted: Sterling has become the idol of the younger generation of soldiers in the family with his extraordinary talent, charming demeanor and charisma, like Shirakawa, who may not know the head of the family and the president, but they will not recognize Sterling. Roger and others have admired him for a long time.

But although it was the first time they met, they all had the same feeling: Sterling was not in shape today...

Excerpt from Commander Shirakawa's personal memoirs: "Rìzi by the Adult's Side":

“... He (Sterling) returned the salute very properly, and the greeting words were also very decent, and even sat down to share a frozen watermelon with us, and very kindly pointed out our doubts in martial arts... It's normal, but I don't know why I always feel a little bit of a sense of unhappiness in him... Very unusual. I said to myself, maybe this is the so-called woman's intuition, right?"

Roger, the commander of military affairs, another person present, said: "Don't listen to what kind of 'woman's intuition' that Shirakawa ghost woman is blowing about there again -- her memoir was written purely to cheat money and find a gunman, and she herself doesn't even understand the meaning of "howareyou?" -- at that time, even an idiot could have found that Lord Stirling was unstable! Otherwise, how could a super master like Lord Stirling almost cut off half of his palm when cutting a watermelon? How could he ask us five times in a row: "When did you return to dìdū?", "When did you return to dìdū?", "When did you return to dìdū, Roger?"... Each time we answered clearly, but after less than three minutes he asked, "When..."

Chief of Staff Commander Changchuan added to him: "Also, our Lord Xiuchuan has been standing next to him, without saying a word, and Jiān is smiling like two Yang Minghua and one Lei Xun - just look at his evil smile: something must have happened!"

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Saying goodbye to Zichuan Ning's house, Zichuan Xiu sent Sterling home.

"The stars are shining tonight!" said Sterling, solemnly, in a tone of solemn conclusion.

Zi Chuanxiu looked up at the cloudy sky and raised his eyebrows: "That's right!"

"The moon is round, too!"

"Yes. "There's no moon tonight.

"How clean our streets are!"

"Correct. "Zichuan Xiu accidentally stepped on a dead cat.

"Actually, you don't have to come out to send me, you still have so many things to do..."

"Nonsense. ”

“...”

“...”

"Thank you a lot for the gift, Li Qing will be very happy. ”

"I got it. ”

"Is Miss Zichuan Ning okay? I didn't see her tonight. ”

"It's fine. ”

"What's her name?"

"Cardin. ”

The two stopped, and Shikawa looked straight into Sterling's eyes, who were avoiding his gaze.

Silent.

Zichuan Xiu opened his mouth and said word by word: "The full name is Princess Cardin, the third daughter of the contemporary Demon God King, who was captured by me in the Fifth Battle of Hengchuan. Now I'm in charge of it. ”

Sterling's lips trembled, and he no longer had the usual calm and composed.

"You found out?"

"I'm not blind. ”

"Think I'm shameless, don't you?"

"No," Shikawa tilted his head and thought for a moment and said, "It's just shameless." ”

"I have a fiancée, and she loves me very much. ”

"I know. Li Qing is a very good girl. ”

"She is the daughter of the Great Demon God King, a member of the Demon Clan. ”

"And it's also the royal family of the demon clan!"

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The two stopped and looked at each other for a moment<

"What should I do?"

"Do you want to hear me explain how a high-ranking officer of the family should be self-denying, selfless, and sacrificing the ego to complete the magnificence and heroism of the ego?"

"Fuck off @#4#&&##!"

“......”

"I'm sorry, I'm so excited. ”

"It's okay, but there are several solutions to this kind of thing - do you want to hear a long-term, medium-term, or short-term solution?"

"Let's start with the long-term. ”

The long-term solution is also known as the "once and for all" method. Method 1: Tie a knot on the ceiling, step on the stool, stick your neck in, and kick the stool off; Method 2: Run to the Great Demon God Castle single-handedly to find the Demon God King by name; Method 3: Kill Yang Minghua in public at the military parade on January 1 every year. Which do you prefer?"

“......”

"Don't like it, we still have medium-term solutions, such as taking a razor and castrating yourself - but it's technically difficult, and it's not as effective and safe as the methods mentioned above..."

"Shut your foul mouth!"

"Perhaps you can follow the example of those middle school students who have not grown their feathers, and buy eleven red roses to-morrow, and give them to Miss Cardin, and watch her under her window until dawn every night, sing her love songs and play the guitar, and your heart beats wildly at the sight of her - except that your future father-in-law may be unexpectedly stern!"

"I'm telling you to shut up!"

"I don't like it either, then I'll have to use the last option - Cardin is my guardian anyway, I'll close her in an unoccupied room and give you the key..."

Sterling punched Shikawa to the ground with a hard punch in the face. He slowly got up, took the handkerchief handed by Sterling, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and slowly spoke:

"As for me, I'd rather you die than go down this path—death is only once. Zi Chuanxiu's voice was low: "Give up, brother, this is crazy at all." You know, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, I will help you, at any cost, but this... You're not fifteen anymore! It's just an impulse! She doesn't even know who you are!"

Stirling didn't say a word, his eyes were blank, as if he was listening carefully, and as if he was wandering for nine days...

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"It's the first time I've felt this way," Sterling said in a weak, firm tone, "I love her." ”

"What the hell you!" Zi Chuanxiu muttered in a low voice: "Then you love Li Qing again?"

"That's different! I don't love Li Qing -- that's not love, it's just that we have more contact with each other, and we don't hate each other..."

"You've slept with people so many times and you're about to get married before you say, 'That's not love'—isn't it too late?"

"It's too late - the problem is that I don't know what 'love' is until tonight!"

"I'll take care of you to die!" Zi Chuanxiu lost his patience and was furious: "Lao Tzu persuaded you for a long time, you come to talk to me about what you don't feel, it's okay to find death-wouldn't it be more refreshing to cut the arteries with a knife!"

"I know. ”

Sterling saw a tavern on the side of the road and smiled sadly: "I have also invented a solution: get drunk and relieve a thousand sorrows! Come in, I'll have a treat." ”

"Oh, no! I have to report to the administrative office tomorrow! Yang Minghua arranged for me to be the deputy director there, and I can't drink tonight..."

Sterling ignored him and walked into the tavern himself.

Zi Chuanxiu judged: "It's not good, this guy is serious! Obviously, Li Qing doesn't love such a good girl, but he falls in love with the daughter of the Demon God King-what kind of world! Love--it's clearly a dizziness!"

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People who sighed could never have imagined that a few years later, he would devote himself to a more poignant and touching emotional entanglement, and staged the most famous and touching love tragedy of the Golden Age. That was many years later, though......

On this day of the scorching heat of August in the year 778 of the imperial calendar, Sterling was 23 years old, Dilin was 24 years old, and Zichuan Xiu was 18 years old. The three heroes of the Zichuan family are still rolling and struggling involuntarily in the whirlpool of the great cháo of the times, and they have not been able to dominate the footsteps and direction of the cháo flow of the times. However, the day is getting closer and closer...

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