The door behind him was squeaked shut.

I stood in the middle of the wing, in front of me a pale blue screen depicting a bamboo kingfisher. Looking at the figure reflected above, the figure behind the screen looks like a person sitting next to a low desk drinking tea. Since I've been in for so long, there's been no movement in the room except for the faint floating candlelight. I held the sword and saluted with a fist in the direction of the screen.

"I took the liberty of asking," I was the first to speak, "Your Excellency invited me alone, but you have known me before?"

The person behind the screen did not speak. Looking at that figure, he seemed to be sipping the tea in his hand with great concentration. After being silent for a long time, I felt more and more strange in my heart.

"Your Excellency......"

Suddenly, my eyes widened, and I clearly saw a sword light flashing behind the screen, stabbing straight at the figure who was leisurely drinking tea.

Oh no! There's one more person in this room, could it be an Assassin!

I didn't have time to think about it, so I drew the Colorful Sword as fast as I could, and split the screen with one sword.

Boom –

The screen that had been split in half fell to the ground. At the same time, there was a "bang" sound, and my face changed greatly. It turned out that the one who was hit by the sword light and fell on the desk turned out to be a humanoid puppet.

I quickly approached and took a closer look, and the puppet was exactly the size of a human, with even the five fingers holding the teacup distinct. Because there is a screen to cover it, there is no abnormality at all.

But why did the sword light stab at a puppet?

There should be one more person in the room, where did he go?

I made up my mind and noticed that there were several very thin silk threads on top of the fallen puppeteer. One end of these threads connects the puppeteer's five fingers, and the other end leads to the roof.

These should be the lines that control the puppeteers.

The colorful sword in my hand slowly approached the threads. The cyan sword light brightened up, and before the sword body could touch them, these extremely thin silk threads all broke with a "boom".

At this moment, I heard something explode on the roof of the beam, and the candlestick on the table was extinguished in an instant. In the darkness, I looked up in amazement to see a group of shiny things flying down from the beams.

When they surrounded me, I realized that they were naturally glowing fireflies!

But at this time of year, how can there be so many lumines......

I stared blankly at the scene in front of me, and suddenly remembered the scenes when I was a child and followed my senior brother to catch fireflies in Posa Mountain at night.

At that time, there were so many flying insects in the summer night of Bosa Mountain, like a dream, like a fairyland.

At this moment, this room has reappeared......

"I've been thinking these days, when we meet again, what kind of scenery will be around you and me?"

A familiar voice came from behind me, and I froze in place, unable to move, my eyes suddenly warmed up, and my heart began to pound.

"Ah Qi, do you like this scenery I gave you?"

The voice was still as gentle as him, and as the footsteps got closer and closer, even the sound of his breathing was in his ears.

"Don't move!" I felt a tightness in my throat, and my hands trembling uncontrollably with the Rainbow Sword.

The footsteps behind him stopped. He didn't say anything, but I could feel the burning gaze.

He took a deep breath and turned around to see him standing where the insects were flying, still dressed in a blue robe, with a smile on his lips.

"Ah Qi, long time no see. ”

I was silent. Because I've thought about countless images of my encounter with him, I never thought it would be like this.

He seems to be thinner, and he has ...... What used to be my eyes that seemed so clear now shows a hint of tiredness and vicissitudes. In an instant, I turned my back and rubbed my hot eyes, and then quickly turned back.

With a "poof", the candle leaves rose again, and the darkness in the room gradually dissipated. And he was still standing there, just a few steps away from me, with a look of anticipation in his eyes.

"Ah Qi ......"

Wow –

The cyan sword light flashed, and I controlled the sword well, and the blade stopped a finger away from my neck. My face froze, and I said to him very calmly: "Hu Qinghe, you don't believe what you say. ”

"Wronged, woman!" he looked at my face, as if he had instantly changed back to the shopkeeper who used to be a scoundrel, raised his arms, and said in an extremely aggrieved tone, "Why am I so untrustworthy?"

The sword is close to a point.

I said: "Let me ask you, who said that you want to go with me, to Bianzhou, to Chang'an, not to leave an inch?"

He winked and replied, "It's me." ”

"Then who took it upon himself to stop my acupoint in the barren forest that night, and lied to me that as long as the honest man arrived within ten days, he would be safe?"

"It's me, too. He gradually faded from the aggrieved and scoundrel look, and his voice became a little low.

"Have you ever thought that you blocked the Gu medicine for me in the ruined temple and put me out of danger. But if you die because of this, I will be sad and miserable......"

Bang Dong –

The Rainbow Sword, which had lost its brilliance, fell, and I finally couldn't help but turn around and hide my face. The thoughts, depression and self-blame of the past few months have turned into tears and flowed out of their fingers.

"You knew then that my heart's blood could cure Gu medicine, didn't you? But you'd rather leave me...... You make it impossible for me to do anything...... You make me feel like I'm being selfish...... Why don't you tell me, Seiwa......"

A pair of hands suddenly came from behind and hugged me in a slightly cool embrace, and the voice was a little muffled.

"I'm sorry, Ah Qi. ”

Hearing him apologize like this, the tears were even more uncontrollable, and I became more and more uncomfortable to count his "crimes".

"Since you're awake, why don't you write to me as soon as possible...... Do you know it, I'm ......"

"I just wanted to tell you that I miss you. Qinghe's arms tightened a little tighter.

I don't know if Linglong Xin felt that there were traces of Gu medicine in this tightly attached chest, and it was beating faster and faster. I slowly lowered my hand and heard Kiyowa continue.

"I've known you since a very early time, Ah Qi. ”

My heart was beating, I couldn't help but hold my breath, and my palms were a little nervous and sweaty.

"You say...... What?"

"I know you, but you never pay attention to me. It's because all your eyes are on the other person. Qinghe chuckled, with a hint of helplessness in his tone, "I'm so jealous, Ah Qi." ”

In a word, it reminds me of the happy days when I used to drink and listen to books in the alleys. At that time, even if I drank the same wine and listened to the same books every day, I would not bother you. Because at that time, I felt that the man standing on the high platform of the ten-mile alley and shaking the folding fan was the most special person in the world......

Thinking of this, I was about to turn around and talk to him. Qinghe's hands tightened an inch again, "Don't move Ah Qi, let me hold it for a while." ”

I turned my head back and dropped my eyelids, and I couldn't help but notice the calluses on his fingers from his martial arts practice.

"When you were eight years old, you followed your senior brother Merry Valley to the Ten Mile Alley for the first time, didn't you?"

“...... Well. ”