A table of soup is exhausted, and only a few intoxicating people remain.

At this time, it was the end of the hour, and the voices of people outside were slowly moving away, and the inner courtyard of the Liu family was extremely quiet at this time.

It was the first time in Mu Qing's life that he was so relaxed, and in someone else's home, he was drunk with a lot of things.

Xiaochan walked in at some point, looked at the drunk crowd, first went to give her younger brother Li Si a chestnut, and then came to raise her eyebrows and came behind Mu Qing.

"Childe, Childe, wake up. ”

"Xiaochan, what's wrong?"

"Childe, those people outside are gone, and the head of the house has asked you to go. ”

Mu Qing followed behind Xiaochan with a drunken feeling, there seemed to be a purple and red in his eyes, and when the night breeze blew, his alcohol dissipated slightly, and he realized that this was not a dream garden.

He used his true anger to force off seven points of alcohol, and quickly followed Xiaochan who was carrying a lantern in front, "Xiaochan, where are we going?"

Mu Qing thought that he was going back to Liu Weirui's yard, but Xiaochan led the way with a lantern in front, but the route became more and more unfamiliar.

Xiaochan said leisurely: "Miss's birthday is actually the death day of Mrs., and the head of the family and Miss will worship alone in Mrs. Lady's courtyard on this night every year. ”

"Still. Xiaochan looked sideways at Mu Qing and smiled: "This time it's different." ”

Mu Qing felt a little heavier when she heard this, it seems that Xiaochan doesn't know Uncle Liu's current physical condition.

There were two lanterns diagonally in front of the courtyard door, and Mu Qing found out through the lanterns that this place was originally behind Liu Weirui's courtyard.

His steps were steady, and as Xiaochan walked into the corridor behind the court door, the air at night exuded an unknown fragrance, I don't know who was taking care of the flowers and plants inside, Xiaochan stopped in front of a courtyard door, pointed inside and said softly: "Miss and the head of the family are inside, son-in-law go in by himself." ”

"Hmm. Mu Qing's vision darkened after entering, and he couldn't help but look up, only to find that the top of his head were dense branches and leaves, and the branches and leaves were deeper, and beside the flickering candle flame, there were two thin backs, and a tomb that was not lonely.

"Come here. Liu Chaoge's voice was already a little ethereal when it came through the branches and leaves.

Mu Qing walked gently to Liu Weirui's side, and found that the other party was writing something on a white lampshade.

Liu Weirui heard the footsteps settled beside her, did not turn the head of the mantis, continued to write with a calm expression, and said softly: "When I was a child, I often asked my father, where did my mother go? My father always said that my mother was the star in the sky that twinkled at me, so I would light the wishing lantern every time I was born, and release what I wanted to say to my mother into the sky. ”

"Later, when I grew up, I learned that my mother didn't fly to the sky to become a star, she had been staying in this yard and sleeping under this loquat tree, so the wishing lantern was replaced by the current wishing lantern. ”

Liu Weirui straightened up, handed the lantern and the small pen in her hand to Liu Chaoge, and said with a smile: "Dad, it's time for you to write." ”

Liu Chaoge smiled softly, and pretended to be serious: "The elders should stay at the end to write, since there are more people today, let the stinky boy write first." ”

Liu Weirui took two steps closer, and handed the lantern to Mu Qing with joy in her eyes, "You can't scribble, you can only write a wish." ”

After Mu Qing took the lantern, he wanted to turn the lantern to see what Liu Weirui wrote, but Liu Weirui grabbed the lantern and didn't let him turn it, and shouted in a coquettish voice: "Even if it's a wish, it won't work if you see it, you write your own." ”

Mu Qing smiled slightly, and wrote: "The covenant of the distant mountains will come as scheduled, and the person in my heart will live up to this life." ”

Mu Qing also gave it to Liu Weirui, who resisted the urge to see it and handed the lantern to her father.

Liu Chaoge smiled slightly, and read the wishes of the two of them.

Liu Weirui shouted in a coquettish voice: "Dad, why are you looking at us, you can just write your own." ”

Liu Chaoge smiled slightly, and after writing a few words, he hung on the branch hanging in front of him, and said softly: "You haven't seen it, I will tell your mother, it will still be very spiritual." ”

Liu Chaoge looked at his daughter and looked at Mu Qing on the side with a shy face, sighed, and said, "Wei Rui, you go outside and wait for me, I want to say a few words to Mu Qing." ”

Liu Weirui looked at the lantern that turned slightly, glanced at her father and Mu Qing in front of the grave, said a soft "um" shyly, and walked out alone.

"Uncle Liu. Waiting for Liu Weirui's back to disappear by the courtyard gate, Mu Qing bowed seriously to the man beside him.

Liu Chaoge's expression was calm, without a trace of emotion exposed, staring at Mu Qing, he was silent for more than a dozen breaths before he spoke: "I have read both your and Wei Rui's wishes." ”

"Since you like each other, I don't want to do anything like beating mandarin ducks again. ”

"I want to ask you, can you guarantee that you won't die?"

"What?" Mu Qing didn't understand what Liu Chaoge meant for a while.

The branches of the loquat hung a little lower because of a lantern, and there were branches and leaves next to Liu Chaoge's forehead, as if a pair of hands were caressing his eyebrows.

Liu Chaoge asked repeatedly: "Can you guarantee that you will not die?"

There was a gust of breeze, the candle flame "crackled" and swayed, Liu Chaoge didn't wait for Mu Qing to answer, and his voice slowly flowed out.

"The afternoon she came home, I had an unpleasant conversation with her in the study, and I knew then I couldn't stop you. ”

"You are the Assassin of the Hidden Valley, and I told her that you will have no freedom, let alone a future. ”

But the child's stubborn temperament is the same as that of her mother, and it seems that as long as she likes it, she will not listen to persuasion. ”

Liu Chaoge gently stroked the loquat leaves in front of him, "Actually, I didn't say it explicitly, what is more likely to make her sad than having no free future is that an assassin like you can die in a mission at any time. ”

Liu Chaoge's pair of silver-threaded sword eyebrows furrowed, and his tone was indescribably sad, "There is nothing more painful than loving a dead person." ”

"I don't want my daughter to wait for your death one day, what are you going to do after hearing this?"

Mu Qing went early, and replied seriously: "The juniors are indeed already working on the matter of getting out of the hidden valley, and they already have companions, they are not alone, I have confidence in myself, and I ask the seniors to believe in me too." ”

"As for life and death, the world is impermanent, and life and death are even more unpredictable, even ...... Even Uncle Liu ......"

Liu Chaoge's eyes were slightly weak, and he didn't bother about his own affairs, and asked, "Then tell me, do you have a clear plan for getting out of the hidden valley?"

Mu Qing's sword eyebrows frowned slightly, and he groaned for a while before he said slowly: "Improving your strength is the most important thing, don't hide it from Uncle Liu, Mrs. Lin said that I am an innate wood source body, and my cultivation is faster than my age, so please rest assured Uncle Liu." ”

Liu Chaoge's eyes flashed, but he shook his head and said: "After all, you still think too simply, if you want to destroy a glorious palace, if you want to destroy it from the outside only by external forces, you need at least many times more strength than everyone in the palace." ”

"I wonder if you've heard a word?"

Mu Qing humbly asked, "Uncle Liu, please speak." ”

Liu Chaoge's face was calm, but the words he said were faintly cloudy, "People of the same class have a natural will and talent to rebel against the class they belong to. If you want to destroy a palace, it is easiest to remove the beams from the inside. ”

Mu Qing muttered, "Internal demolition?"

Liu Chaoge said indifferently: "I heard that the valley master of the hidden valley has been in retreat for many years, it seems that he himself does not like this right in his hands, why don't you wait for you to have the strength to meet the other party face to face, you can talk to this person, or even be the valley master yourself."

Mu Qing was surprised: "I'm here to be the valley master?"

"Why? didn't see through?" Liu Chaoge said with a smile: "Everything in this world wants to be characterized, and it is not as simple as black and white. From the Liu family in Jinguancheng to the Lin family in the Xishan Realm, do you really think that there is no evil thing happening? Yingu also has its evils, but since it exists, it naturally has the necessity of its existence. ”

"When you came back, you happened to catch up with the civil strife in the City Lord's Mansion, and I think you also understand that the current world has reached a very serious point of chaos. If you want to gain a firm foothold in such troubled times, people listen to what you say, and those you want to protect can protect it, so you have to have your own power. ”

Mu Qing was silent, and couldn't accept the other party's opinion for a while, isn't it good for a person to go wherever he wants?

Liu Chaoge smiled disappreciatively: "You don't seem to agree with me. ”

Mu Qing said bluntly, "The younger generation is indeed a little unacceptable, I am an orphan, although I was arrested and taken to the Hidden Valley when I was six years old, but I actually have no belonging and good impression of the Hidden Valley, and defeating or even eliminating the other party is not to replace the other party." ”

Liu Chaoge nodded and asked, "Mu Qing, are you an assassin now?"

Mu Qing was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Sort of." ”

Liu Chaoge nodded and said, "Then I said that you were a bad person because you were an assassin, but did I really break you up with Wei Rui because of this?"

Mu Qing replied sincerely: "The predecessors are open-minded. ”

Liu Chaoge shook his head and said slowly: "It's not that I'm enlightened, it's just that you haven't seen through some things at your age." Since the Assassin could not be a bad person, why couldn't the Hidden Valley take a path of breaking through the old and breaking new ground? Achieving some remarkable achievements in the field of his own expertise, rather than abandoning this talent, would save him many detours. ”

"There has been a lot of talk tonight, and what I want you to understand is that you must first be very strong in order not to die in the trap of conspiracy, and secondly, you must have a group of like-minded partners, so that you can stand up and speak out in such troubled times, and finally, I hope you don't directly cut off your past, you in the hidden valley are also you, and you should be a good leader." ”

"Leader ......"

"Yes. Liu Chaoge looked at the lantern that emitted light and heat on his face, and said seriously: "I didn't know that you were an innate wood source body, but even so, if Wei Rui went to the Xishan Lin family, she and you would inevitably be separated by a natural mountain before, this is a natural class prejudice, I think neither of you has thought of this situation." ”

"So even if you are truly completely cut off from the Hidden Valley, I still hope that you will have your own power. ”

"I don't want my daughter to live a life of exile with you even if she runs away in the future. ”

Liu Chaoge coughed twice, walked up to Mu Qing, patted Mu Qing's shoulder, and sighed with a smile: "Actually, I didn't tell Wei Rui, I still believe in her vision." You're much better than I was back then, I can prove myself, and I hope you don't disappoint. ”