That night, Wang Lin slowly woke up from the bed, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Ji Xiaofang's beautiful little face, looking at Wang Lin intently, frowning.

Ji Xiaofang saw that Wang Lin woke up safely, patted her chest, obviously relieved.

"Sister Xiaofang, it seems that you saved me again, how can I repay your life-saving grace?" Wang Lin lay on the bed, and said with a wry smile on his pale face.

Ji Xiaofang habitually patted Wang Lin's head lightly, and said a little angrily: "You can calm down for my sister in the future, don't be stupid and go desperately." ”

Then Ji Xiaofang's face became a little hesitant again, and only after a while did she say: "Wang Lin, there has been a person outside the door for a long time, and I haven't thought about whether to let her in or not, so she has been waiting at the door, and now this decision is returned to you, and you decide." ”

Wang Lin asked, "Who is it?"

Ji Xiaofang said: "Yes... Qin'er's stepmother, Mrs. Taishou of Ngee Ann City. ”

Wang Lin's face instantly turned pale, his lips trembled slightly, and then he forced out a smile and said to Ji Xiaofang, "Sister Xiaofang, call him in." ”

Ji Xiaofang sighed lightly, then walked to the door, opened the door, and a noble woman in red satin stood at the door, only to see her nodding to Ji Xiaofang, and then walked in, Ji Xiaofang exited the room and said to Wang Lin: "You... Have a good talk. Then he closed the door gently.

"You are Wang Lin! I often hear Qin'er mention you, you are worthy of being a good man in Xixia, you are the one who protected the whole village and protected Qin'er, I thank you here. The beautiful woman stepped forward, sat down gently beside Wang Lin's bed, and nodded her head in gratitude to Wang Lin.

Wang Lin chuckled: "You don't have to thank me, who I protect is my own decision, and it has nothing to do with my wife." Then he said: "In the morning in the Taishou Mansion, I was too reckless, I really shouldn't be, and I hope that Mrs. will apologize on my behalf for Lord Taishou." Saying that, Wang Lin, who was sitting on the bed, made a not very polite salute to the woman with a fist.

Mrs. Taishou covered her mouth and chuckled: "I understand, Auntie doesn't think you have done anything wrong, at this age, how can you be like the old man who has been in the world for countless years, how can you not be angry, your uncle and I will not blame you." ”

Wang Lin said lightly and self-deprecatingly: "It seems that Lord Taishou spared my life, that is the result of not blaming me, I am really lucky." ”

Mrs. Taishou didn't dwell on this question, but changed the subject and asked, "Child, how old are you this year?"

"Seventeen"

"Seventeen, my aunt also fell in love with a lot of handsome and self-motivated men at your age, and every time I decided to give up on them, it hurt my heart, like a knife, but I still decided to leave them, and finally married Chen Cheng, who is now the Taishou of Nghe Ann City. It's been a few decades, you know why。。。。。。 “

Wang Lin looked impatient and said to Mrs. Taishou: "If you have something to say, please say it directly, I am not interested in the affairs of your youth. ”

Mrs. Taishou obviously has a good family education, and she just smiled at Wang Lin's rude words, and said to Wang Lin: "That's because I know who is right to choose, Qin'er, she obviously doesn't know how to choose the most right, so as her mother, I came to find you, Wang Lin, do you have to chase after us Qin'er? ”

Wang Lin looked at Mrs. Taishou with a chuckle: "How long have you known Qin'er, don't pretend to stage a mother-daughter relationship in front of me, if you want to talk about it, then please go back, although I don't know why Qin'er agreed to let you enter the palace, but I am sure that it must not be Qin'er's will." Either you kill me now, or I'll never give up. “

Mrs. Taishou obviously guessed that Wang Lin would say this, and replied lightly: "Child, don't be so impulsive, and this matter is really Qin'er's own choice, and our husband and wife did not threaten her." Besides, is Qin'er your wife? No, are you Qin'er's husband? No. Can you protect Jean?"

Before Mrs. Taishou could finish speaking, Wang Lin rushed to speak: "Of course I can, I promised her that I would protect her forever." ”

Mrs. Taishou covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Silly child, how can there be any eternity in this world, your protection means that every time you encounter a crisis, you risk your life to protect her? But you protected her, but you died, just like your behavior in your hometown before, you think you protected her, but do you think Qin'er will really think that you will protect her by sacrificing yourself, for Qin'er who regards you as the only one, will she think that this is a kind of protection?" This is just another form of injury, if you appear by her side again, one day in the future, when you encounter a crisis that you can't easily solve, will you disappear or die again, and then bring her the same damage as now, don't you think that your existence may be a continuous injury to Qin'er, and Qin'er's destiny has been decided, how to live with you in the future, crises will continue to arise, because you are too weak, and she is too noble, so noble that there will be countless people who want her to die. The woman stretched out her head again and whispered in Wang Lin's ear: "For Qin'er, it is better for you to live than to die." ”

Wang Lin's face turned very pale, obviously these words affected him.

The woman looked at Wang Lin's changes, her face was expressionless, and she said to Wang Lin: "The second point, your appearance now, what you are going to do, are all manifestations of your selfishness. ”

Wang Lin's lips trembled slightly, and he said, "What do you mean?"

"What do you mean, Qin'er has been miserable these days because of your business, but fortunately, she has begun to prepare a little bit to accept the fact that you are dead, life is getting better, in the future, when she becomes the emperor, her life will be full of meaning and glory, and what you are doing now is to pull her and you to live a life of tatters and meaningless and even dangerous in the future. What do you give her dignity, what can you give her protection but to work hard, what can you give her other meaning in life besides taking her to live a life of mud legs, one day is counted as a day?"

Wang Lin's eyes widened and he wanted to refute, but the woman didn't let him interrupt, and then said: "Don't say anything, you will soar in the future, and your power will be monstrous, that is all in the future, you are not a mortal now, you can wait, but Qin'er she can't afford to wait, she only has a hundred years to live, you shouldn't selfishly let her sacrifice her entire youth or even her whole life to wait for you." You know that Marshal Cao Yuanpeng, it took a full two Jiazi to become the marshal of the border army, his master Huineng Buddha, cultivated for more than 6,000 years before ascending to the Heavenly Dao Realm, Zhongzhou's Pure Yang Tianzun, is already more than 2,000 years old, and has not yet ascended to the Heavenly Dao Realm, even my husband has worked hard for more than 50 years to become the Taishou of this Yi'an City. How many fifty years does Qin'er have?

Wang Lin said in a daze: "I can not cultivate, I can accompany her to old age, or I can die with her!"

Mrs. Taishou showed a hint of victory on her face, and then said: "Maybe other girls can, but here in Qin'er, you are back to the original point, Qin'er's life is the order of the emperor, if you don't practice, don't climb to a high position, why are you qualified to have Qin'er?"

Wang Lin struggled and said: "Because I only have her in my heart, and she only has me in her heart!"

"Ridiculous, Wang Lin, who told you that love is the whole of life, do you think that just by you love her and she loves you, this love can protect her? Besides, who told you that two people who love each other will definitely be together?" the woman said loudly to Wang Lin.

Then, the woman said gently, "Child, to love someone, you don't have to get her, but to make her happy and happy, isn't it?"

Wang Lin asked blankly, "Becoming the emperor... Will Qin'er be happy?"

The woman sneered and said, "Worshiped by thousands of people, enjoying all the glory and wealth, admired by the world, motherly to the world, what do you think? You have seen it, she hopes that the people in the village can live well, and now it has been realized before becoming the emperor."

Wang Lin did not speak.

The woman looked at Wang Lin quietly, just quietly, she knew in her heart that the child in front of her had lost.

After half a ring, he pretended to be very hesitant and a little distressed and said to Wang Lin: "Qin'er and I will go to Zhongzhou tomorrow morning, and there will be some dangers along the way, because there are some reasons for this trip, you can't bring a large army to escort you, so if you want to stick to your oath, then join them and silently protect her in the shadows behind her, Qin'er is the future emperor, she needs someone like you to protect her in the shadows." ”

Mrs. Taishou paused and continued: "At least let Qin'er only see you die in battle once, and only sad once. Wang Lin, blame your life, if you are not born as an emperor, you and Qin'er are destined to become passers-by. A hundred years may be a blink of an eye for those of us who practice, but for Qin'er, it is a long life. So Wang Lin, people still have to live in reality, and some people are destined to fade away in life, no matter how you keep them, there will be no results, especially between mortals and immortals. Think for yourself, I'm sure you'll make the right choice. Some things can only be remembered. Some people can only be passers-by. ”

Wang Lin didn't say anything, and the lady Taishou got up and left.

When I opened the door, I found that there were many villagers from Xiushui Town gathered at the door, and everyone stood quietly outside the door listening, and no one dared to speak.

Mrs. Taishou saw these border people and smiled: "It turns out that everyone is here, in fact, our husband and wife really want to thank everyone for persuading Qin'er to agree to our husband and wife to enter the palace." Then he paused and said: "Everyone knows, the man in the room behind me, Wang Lin, he is back, but I think everyone cares about Qin'er, knows how Qin'er should choose the best, and knows what is your best choice, right? Isn't that right? So they're all optimistic about their mouths. After that, I saw that almost all the residents nodded tremblingly, and Mrs. Taishou was very satisfied, and left contentedly, and sneered softly when she went out: "Border people, border people, the most pitiful and pitiful." ”

Ji Xiaofang took the lead in running into the house, her eyes revealing concern, looking at Wang Lin's extremely pale face, she walked up to Wang Lin and asked, "Wang Lin, she didn't do anything to you, did she?"

Wang Lin looked at Ji Xiaofang and shook his head with a smile, maybe when a person is really helpless, he has no choice but to smile in addition to smiling.

At this time, the villagers outside the door also poured in, but they all leaned against the door, not daring to approach Wang Lin in the slightest. Facing this very familiar face, Wang Lin suddenly felt quite unfamiliar, yes, the Taishou couple didn't persecute Qin'er much, the person who persecuted Qin'er was in front of Wang Lin, and he felt very sad when he thought of this. The faces of these villagers showed a variety of expressions, including concern, distress, guilt, timidity, and cowardice.

Everyone didn't speak, Wang Lin looked at the villagers who stood at the door and didn't dare to approach, Wang Lin didn't know why, there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth, but the next moment tears flowed down.

Wang Lin touched his slippery cheeks indifferently, it was tears, it turned out that I was still just a child, a child who would cry when it hurt.

Hundreds of years later, when Wang Lin and Wu Chi had a wine and conversation, Wang Lin recalled this incident, Wang Lin said quite melancholy: "At that time, I always thought that love was something that surpassed everything, and at that time I didn't cultivate enough, I didn't understand, there are two more terrible forces in this world, called fate and time, we live under the way of heaven, we can only bear it, but we can't change it."

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The inner courtyard of Nghe Ann City is too guarded

A girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed in a blue dress, a fine blue pomegranate skirt, and a white gauze dress, was kneeling on the ground at the moment, looking up at the sky, three thousand strands of hair scattered on her shoulders, without superfluous hair accessories, in the moonlight, plain and lovable.

The girl counted the stars carefully, as if she was looking for something, and the maids that the Taishou couple had arranged for her had been sent away by her on the grounds that she was not used to being served, so that the whole courtyard seemed rather lonely and lonely, which also made the girl even more pitiful.

"Qin'er, why are you wearing so little, it's so late, let's go back to the house and rest, we have to leave tomorrow morning." A voice rang out from behind Jean.

Qin'er didn't look back, she still stared at the sky blankly, and said coldly, "Mother, do we have to leave tomorrow?"

Mrs. Taishou, who had just returned, gently patted Qin'er on the shoulder and said, "Your old grandfather of Qintianjian can't drag on any longer, and if you leave this sad place one day earlier, Qin'er will be in a better mood." ”

Qin'er nodded and said, "Okay, mother, go and rest first, Qin'er will go back to the house to rest immediately." ”

Mrs. Taishou said to Qin'er dotingly: "When I was a child, I also liked to count the stars, looking at the bright and beautiful stars in the sky, my mood will improve, but Qin'er is also older, I can't always do what this little girl likes to do, I should learn what I should know as an emperor, and my mother will always accompany you and teach you along the way." ”

Qin'er nodded, and Mrs. Taishou left.

Qin'er still stared blankly at the starry sky, not knowing what she was thinking, and after about half an hour, Qin'er slowly stood up, walked back to her room, blew out the candles, and lay on the bed, shrunk in the quilt and shivered.

Qin'er, who also put her head in the quilt, burst into tears at this time, and said with a sob: "Wang Lin, you must not be dead yet, right, I counted a handful of stars in the sky today, and there are still not many of them, I haven't seen you turn into stars, it's really... That's great. ”

I didn't have a chance under the screen window, and I had a thin life in the loess ridge, but after all, it was a shallow love, and it was rare to see it again.