"Yes, you're going to die—how can you stay with me all the time!" Fang Leying sighed, her voice as light and faint as a dragonfly dotting water.

For a moment, Li Jiqing felt that Fang Leying had changed. is no longer as stubborn, ruthless, and affectionate as when he was young, but has become amiable, sensitive, and fragile.

Thinking of this, Li Jiqing grinned, "Ying'er—have you ever seen a chick?"

"En~ who hasn't seen a fledgling!" Fang Leying squinted at him, with a stupid expression.

Li Jiqing stood up, facing the sun and spreading his arms, the wind lifting the ends of his clothes.

At this moment, Li Jiqing seems to have become the dashing and wanton little young master in Anyang Town, the high-spirited Third Highness of Li Guo.

He waved his fist and said aloud, "The chicks always grow up, and fly into the sky with their full-fledged wings.

Before that, the adult bird nurses it, and its companions compete with it.

Then they came of age together, and flapped their wings in the sky, and all the birds secretly competed to see which one could fly higher than the one who flapped its wings and soared for nine days.

You are the fledgling, I am good, Uncle Fang is good, we are all old birds.

We are here to make you happen. Saying this, Li Jiqing turned to look at him, and his handsome appearance was stained with a layer of fluorescence by the warm orange sunlight, which was very sacred.

At this moment, with a gentle smile in his eyebrows, he said softly, "Don't worry, Ying'er, even if I am not there in the future."

I will also be the most beautiful star in the sky to accompany you.

At that time, if you miss me, look up at the stars in the sky and look for the one that shines the most, and that is me. ”

"Why do you really like to reveal your heart to me so much!What do I have-" Fang Leying looked at Li Jiqing with a blank expression, waved his hand twice in front of him, and then swallowed the second half of the sentence and pretended to be disgusted, "Really, the sour smell of the sour book floating in front of me wherever I read!"

Li Jiqing smiled and feigned anger, "The wicked will sue first!"

——

Little did they know at the time that this conversation would be the last time they would talk.

On the same day, after going back, Li Jiqing fell ill, and Gao Zixi's master, Lu Qing and Lu Yaoshi, were helpless.

After the strongest pharmacist in Shushan came out of Li Jiqing's house, he shook his head and told everyone that this person was hopeless, and asked who was willing to prepare for the future. None of the disciples of Shushan were willing, and Pharmacist Lu was not good at forcing him, so when he sighed and was about to leave, Candle Dragon walked in from outside the courtyard gate and said that he was willing to take care of Li Jiqing.

After that, Li Jiqing's courtyard was closed.

Fang Leying went to see him several times, but was stopped by Candle Dragon on the grounds that he was seriously ill and inconvenient to see guests.

Another year has passed in the blink of an eye, and Fang Leying saw Li Jiqing again, his face was paler and old than before, which made people look unspeakably worried.

At this moment, he was lying quietly in an extremely ordinary coffin.

Because Li Jiqing died in Shushan, the aftermath was also handled by the head of Shushan Dao, and it was a simple fate. The empty room consisted only of a table, a spiritual seat, three futons, and an incense burner.

Fang Leying looked at the scene in front of him and felt desolate, if Li Jiqing died in Kyoto, it would be like ringing the bell to mourn for three days, and it would never be as simple and casual as now.

"Jiqing!" he shouted, at some point his throat began to ache, and his speech was in a trill, "Is it true that you said that you will turn into stars to protect me?"

What answered him was the silent silence, and the wind hit the backs of the people in the room with a cool air, which was not very cool, but at this time Fang Leying felt cold and piercing.

"You said you would do whatever I wanted, didn't you? I want you to come back to life now!"

"You stand up with your eyes open and tell me that you listen to me for everything!" he yelled, but the other man remained motionless, "Liar-liar-" After saying this, he spread to the ground as if he had been drained of all his strength.

Fang Leying shouted in a bit of a collapse.

"Don't be coy, Fang Daxian!" A voice came from outside the door, Fang Leying turned around to look, and what caught his eye was Gao Zixi, who was dressed in a cyan robe.

When he saw him, Fang Leying's eyes lit up, he got up and ran quickly to the other party, but he tripped over a futon on the ground without paying attention, and after falling, he even forgot to stand up, and climbed like Gao Zi little by little.

Finally, just as he was about to catch the corner of Gao Zi's clothes, the other party took a step back and sneered, "What's the matter! Daxian's skill has regressed a lot recently! Can't even make the simplest shift decision?"

"Isn't your master the strongest pharmacist in Shushan? Please—find your master to save Relief Qing. Save him!" Fang Yuying didn't care about his ridicule, opened a pair of teary eyes, and reached out to grab the corner of his clothes as if he was grasping some more life-saving straw.

Gao Zixi's face was angry, he stepped forward and kicked him and roared, "You still have the face to call his name," After speaking, he leaned over and grabbed his collar and pulled him to the coffin, with a fierce face, "Look - see it clearly." My Highness has been harmed by you like this—you still have the face to call his name. ”

Gao Zi said as he punched him in the abdomen, his face distorted like a demon, "Do you know what His Highness said to me before he died?"

Fang Leying's face was blank, and a pair of eyes stared directly at Li Jiqing's pale face in the coffin.

"Don't squeak! Ha—— Fang Leying" he glared and roared, "Who are you looking like now! Why didn't you do this when you pumped his essence blood to destroy his spirit, weren't you very comfortable and proud at that time?"

"I was wrong! I was really wrong—can you—tell me what Jiqing said before he died?" Fang Leying finally drooped her head and pursed her lips.

Gao Zi was astringent, "Don't you feel very pale when you say this now?" he said and threw Fang Leying out, "Get out! out of Lao Tzu - don't appear in front of me." ”

"I-" Fang Leying's body was like a sack, and it bounced twice on the ground.

Then he got up and walked over step by step like Gao Zixi, saying as he walked, "Tell me, okay?"

Seeing this, Gao Zixian was even more resentful, he walked out of the mourning hall, put his two fingers together and a long sword volleyed into the air, and pointed directly at Fang Leying with a fierce sword aura, "Get out!" I don't want to be rough in front of the spirit, it's not enough for you to kill His Highness, but also let my Highness not be able to rest in peace after death?"

Hearing the second half of the sentence, Fang Leying's face stiffened and his face was ashamed, and then he lowered his head and turned around to leave.

——

Standing in the distance, Candle Dragon and Shu Pingyao watched this scene, Candle Dragon frowned and looked at this scene, "That bastard boy seems to have changed, not the same as before." Why is that?"

Shu Pingyao stretched out his hand to cover the light in the sky, and replied, "This day has changed!"

The candle dragon looked at the clear sky, and said in a bit of confusion, "Pingyao, what nonsense are you talking about, isn't this day the same as before, there is no change at all!"

"It's nothing," Shu Pingyao lowered his head and dusted off the non-existent ash on his body, "Senior, is it okay to spend so long with me?"

The candle dragon was silent for a moment before continuing, "It's okay. "With that, he turned around and left.

Shu Pingyao stretched out his hand to grab him, and said in a deep voice, "Don't run away! Some causes and effects can't be escaped—seniors! Do you really not want to get your memories back at all?"

The momentum around the candle dragon was steaming, the robe was windless, and an extremely heavy force shook Shu Pingyao's hand away; "You kid, you are becoming more and more presumptuous!"

Seeing that he had disappeared, Shu Pingyao sighed and looked at the lush trees around him with a sad expression, "Some causes and effects can't be escaped, including you and me." ”

On the other side –

Fang Leying didn't know where he was walking as he walked, the trees in front of him were verdant and the sun was excellent, everything was Li Jiqing's favorite look.

If this was the case in the past. Li Jiqing can always come out of a place at the right time and scare him with a smile, if he is in a good mood, he can pretend to be scared and frolic with him. However, this scene will never happen again.

He remembered the appearance of Li Jiqing lying dead in the coffin, and Wu's face turned white, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of a scene appeared in front of him.

His elderly father knelt in front of Shu Pingyao and begged Shu Pingyao to kill him, and even begged Shu Pingyao to take care of him. Then several long swords pierced his father's old body many times, and at the moment when the long sword entered the body, his elderly father was still worried about himself.

Everything gradually became clear, why his father disappeared for ten years and there was no news, why he couldn't see his father when he woke up, and why he entered the country quickly in the past ten years without thunderstorming.

He had thought it was because he drank Li Jiqing's blood, but now that he thinks about it, he is really stupid.

He has really suffered a lot of kindness in his life, and it is difficult to repay it.

Fang Leying's eyes were red, and her heart was dripping blood.

He suddenly wanted to escape, and perhaps it was best to find a place where no one knew him and start over. However, you must know that human beings are extremely complex creatures, and the more they want to escape, the more they want to get closer to what has happened before.

So, he returned to Anyang Town again, this time to say goodbye.

At this time, Dream Leap House had already closed its doors.

The old weeded maids and servants in the Fang Mansion were all scattered, and when Fang Leying came here, he found a strange phenomenon, that is, there was a courtyard in the Fang Mansion that was still very tidy. Pushing the door in, the old door creaked and rattled, alarming the people in the house

A woman with a scarf on her head came out of the house and said in a hoarse voice, "Who?"

When he saw who the person was, the thing in his hand fell and the whole person froze. She rubbed her eyes fiercely and exclaimed, "Fang Lang, you are back, the slave is waiting for you so hard!" Meng Gu said and was about to rush up to hug him.

Fang Leying left as if fleeing - at this moment, the barrier he had erected for himself was broken, and he no longer had the strength and courage to face the past.

For many years after that, Fang Leying lived alone.

But the memories he had been trying to escape didn't seem to want to let him go, so he always remembered a few people.

A man who has held his hand for most of his life, his tall figure has become rickety, and he has used his thin body to block calamities for him, and he has paved the way for him with flesh and bones

A person was laughing in the pear blossom forest, wearing a red wedding dress and whispering "Fang Lang!" The person's appearance was no longer so clear, and if he looked closely, the person seemed to be crying.

A person caressed in the hibiscus tent, Fang Leying's face whispered a lot of love but didn't dare to touch him.

A person was silently accompanied by a heartletting, and all kinds of scenes crossed his eyes, and then disappeared, and then converged into a pale face.

He was shocked and angry, and the whole person seemed a little crazy.

Suddenly, a phrase exploded in his ears like a dry thunder on the ground.

"He's my son!"

A flurry of words sprung up.

"Ying'er, I like you!"

"I won't live up to you!"

"Don't you think you're a bit hypocritical?"

"I will be the most beautiful star to protect you!"

“······”

Many words came like a tidal wave, making his head hurt, and then he waved his palm angrily, and the huge wave of qi bulldozed the small hill on the side!

After that, Fang Leying appeared in a small town, pulled a passer-by casually, stared at the other party with a pair of scarlet eyes and shouted, "You tell me, am I a scumbag?" The passer-by panicked for a while and didn't answer his words, and he slapped the man to death.

Then he grabbed another person and repeated the question at the beginning, this time the person was a fragmented person, so Fang Leying's hand was stained with another human life.

By the time of the third person, everything was a little different.

This time it was a beautiful woman, and Fang Leying repeated the previous question.

I thought there would be no answer like the first three times, but I didn't expect that-

"Yes, you're a scumbag!" the woman said, Fang Leying was stunned and told the woman to break free.

He muttered to himself, "No—" The volume gradually increased, "It's not that I'm a scumbag, it's that fate is unfair or God is inconvenient for me." ”

The woman crossed her arms and grinned sarcastically, "Your father, your lover died for you, and what you love died for design." You have done all the love for the people in the world, and you have done all the things that are kind. You are vile and shameful, and you are vitriol. But in this way, you have tasted all the blessings in the world, and what are you dissatisfied with? Why don't you make trouble and kill people in this place! You should feel fortunate - Fang Leying, can everyone in the world sigh about fate and complain about the past, but you can't. ”

Fang Leying's eyes widened, a mouthful of blood spurted out, he stopped entanglement with the woman, turned around and left. The back was stretched slender by the setting sun, and it was indescribably lonely.

After that, Fang Leying disappeared-

At the same time, there was an amiable young Taoist priest in the small mountain village on the back side of Li Guo.

The Taoist priest had been helping others all his life, and in his later years, someone wanted to help him erect a monument and asked him what he wanted to engrave on the monument?

Qingying——