Far away is not a guest, the sunset safflower is injured for half a day;

When I came back to see the flowers in the next year, it was already the waning sun reflecting the moon.

The road back to Beijing is not far away, but Jin Shoutian walked very slowly, and the death of the night thorn undoubtedly brought him a big blow, and his eyes seemed to reveal confusion and hesitation.

If a person, a successful person, hesitates and is confused, there is only one possibility that what he gets may not be what he wants, and what he wants and what he gets are two different extremes.

Kaifeng is a thousand-year-old city, with towering towers, thick city walls, vicissitudes of life, as well as those noisy crowds and bustling downtown areas, which are a temptation for people from afar.

And for Jin Shoutian at this moment, he has no intention of appreciating the beauty here. The sunset is destined to be reduced to the dusk moonlight, and the twilight of the people is a pile of loess waiting to be forgotten.

It was not early, Jin Hu walked to Jin Shoutian's side and said: "It's not early for the factory today, it is better to rest for a night in front of Kaifeng City." ”

Looking at the sunset in the sky, and then looking back at the desolate carriage, the horses kept sighing and perhaps were tired.

Jin Shoutian said: "The night thorn is also tired, so it's good to rest for one night." ”

So Jin Shoutian and his entourage came to Kaifeng City and found a very secluded inn to live in.

Everyone rested late at night, and the tea and wine customers in the lobby on the first floor also left one after another, and the shopkeeper walked to Jin Shoutian's side and said with concern: "It's not early for the guest officer, our store is about to close, I'll help you to rest in the room!"

Jin Shoutian smiled and said, "Xiao Er, you just go to you, just give me some more drinks." ”

The shopkeeper didn't persuade again, and slowly walked towards the corner, only then did he find that there was a person sitting in the corner, this person was covered with a black face towel, and there was a pot of tea and a tea bowl on the table.

The shopkeeper stepped forward and said, "I'm sorry, our store should be closed." ”

The masked man said softly: "You just have to beat your Yang, I don't need to add water and tea here, you can be my non-existent." ”

The shopkeeper was about to persuade, but was called back by the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper was a little puzzled and said, "Shopkeeper, why are there all the weirdos today?"

The shopkeeper said: "There are so many things to do business when you open the door, as long as the requirements of the guest officer are reasonable, we must meet them, there are no weirdos in this world, only people who are full of thoughts." ”

The shopkeeper asked a little puzzled: "How does the shopkeeper know that they have something on their mind?"

The shopkeeper said: "People who drink in the middle of the night are only to get drunk, and people who drink in the middle of the night are only to wake up, and when these two people meet together, there must be a story, let's go quickly, maybe we will disturb them here." ”

Although the shopkeeper is not an old man, he also has read countless people, he knows what to do in the face of whom, and what choices to make in the face of what to make, so such people are often not so annoying and can live for a long time.

After the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper left, the lobby was quiet and quiet, and even the sound of pouring wine could be heard clearly, and the sound of pouring wine became more and more urgent but more and more stable.

The masked man said softly: "The more you want to get drunk, the harder it is to get drunk. ”

The voice was neither loud nor small, but Jin Shoutian was enough to hear it, the words were not loud or intoxicating, but they were very sober.

Jin Shoutian stopped the wine bowl in his hand and asked, "Who are you?"

The masked man whispered, "A man who wanted to get drunk but never got drunk, and now he just wants to wake up." ”

This sentence is very low but very high-pitched, lonely and arrogant, cold and fratern, like a bowl of poison that can poison everyone, and a bowl of antidote that can save everyone.

Jin Shoutian put down the wine bowl in his hand, slowly turned his head and looked into the corner, he thought that he was the most frustrated person in the world at this moment, but when he saw the masked man for the first time, he understood what frustration was, but it seemed a little inaccurate to describe it as frustrated.

Jin Shoutian said, "Friend, can you come and have a drink with me?"

The masked man smiled and said, "Although wine is a good thing, people like you and me are not suitable for drinking, if you really want to talk to me, why not drink a bowl of tea?"

Jin Shoutian was originally an arrogant and uninhibited person, but in front of the masked man, it seemed that he was always closed and had no way out.

Jin Shoutian walked up slowly, sat down opposite the masked man, he quietly stared into the masked man's eyes, and after staring for a long time, he muttered to himself: "What is it, what encounter, what story, that makes this person have such a pair of poisonous eyes, it is fraternity but destruction, wisdom but hidden conspiracy." ”

The masked man handed the bowl of tea that had been cooled next to him to Jin Shoutian and said, "The tea has been cooled, but fortunately, the people who should drink it are still there, and it is not a waste." ”

Jin Shoutian did not refuse, and drank the cooled tea in one sip, with a hint of coolness in the dryness, which seemed to be more intoxicating than the wine.

Jin Shoutian said: "Your Excellency has been waiting for me here for a long time!"

The masked man smiled and said, "Yes, it seems that you are not destined to drink, and you are wiser than you are a drinker." ”

Jin Shoutian said: "The tea is cold, the tea taste is not old, this bowl of tea has too many stories about your story and my story!"

The masked man said, "There are only two things in my story that destroy what I want to destroy and what I want to get." ”

Jin Shoutian smiled and said: "If I were to say this to another person, I would definitely think that he was a fool, but now I only have to believe that otherwise I will become a fool!"

The masked man looked into Jin Shoutian's eyes and said, "There are only these two things in your story. ”

Jin Shoutian smiled and said, "You are wrong, there should be a woman in my story." ”

The masked man laughed and said, "How do you know that there are no women in my story? ”

Jin Shoutian said: "Why use love?"

The masked man said, "Heaven allows us to have any kind of affection for a reason, and everyone is using emotion because it can give us more wisdom, anger, and strength!"

Although these words are a bit mean and a little too extreme, Jin Shoutian can't find any reason to refute them, and people usually think that they are the truth in the face of irrefutable truths.

Looking at the masked man, Jin Shoutian felt that the man in front of him was both mysterious and dark, terrifying and warm, distant and close, as if there seemed to be some kind of magic in this person that attracted him to trust and confide.

Jin Shoutian smiled and said, "What kind of person are you? What kind of story have you experienced?"

The masked man said, "You really want to hear it?"

Jin Shoutian nodded and said, "Not bad." ”

The masked man asked, "You're not afraid that I'll make up a story to lie to you?"

Jin Shoutian smiled and said, "Instead of lying to me, you should choose not to say it." ”

The masked man smiled and said, "I really didn't misread you. ”

The masked man poured out the remaining tea in the tea bowl, took the wine jar on Jin Shoutian's table, and filled both bowls with wine.

The masked man said, "Drunkenness is more precious than anyone, so you must not drink it indiscriminately until it is time to drink it, and those who waste wine are more shameful than those who waste tea." ”

Jin Shoutian was a little puzzled and asked, "Why?"

The masked man smiled and said, "Because wine is more expensive than tea." ”

After all, Jin Shoutian smiled, and the masked man also smiled, it is an indisputable fact that wine is indeed more expensive than tea, and how many people in the poor world still don't know this truth? Those wine worms who don't understand wine should be shameful!

They don't drink fast every time they take a small sip, and after each sip they always say a lot of things, the masked man will tell his story, few people can listen to other people's stories 100% seriously, if there is only one possibility for such a person, that is, he himself exists in other people's stories, maybe he is the protagonist in other people's stories.

The night is very long, and you won't be lonely if you have wine, let alone two people who are already lonely and hurtful?

The masked man didn't tell the story at length, repeating every word and sentence, so he quickly finished telling his own story.

The masked man stood up and looked out the window and sighed softly, but there was a strange smile on his face. Jin Shoutian wouldn't know, because at this moment, he could only see the back of the masked man.

The masked man asked, "Do you know what my only regret is?"

Jin Shoutian smiled and said, "You are a descendant of a famous general of Dajin, and you have not been able to find a descendant of the Dajin Emperor to complete the training of your ancestors." ”

The masked man let out a long sigh again, "Yes, no matter how powerful my ability and profound wisdom are, it will be in vain if I fail to meet a Ming Jun. ”

Jin Shoutian stood up, walked over to the masked man, and said, "You will soon be able to make up for this regret." ”

After that, Jin Shoutian tore off the sleeve of his left hand, and a flame pattern loomed in the dim candlelight.

The masked man turned to look at Jin Shoutian's left arm, and immediately knelt down and said, "The gold lord is above, please accept the guilty minister!"

Jin Shoutian hurriedly pulled up the masked man on the ground and said with a smile: "Your Excellency's loyalty to the world can be learned, and meeting here today is also fate, if there is no you and me, how can we cheer up? From now on, the two of us will share the Ming Dynasty equally, you are in the wilderness, and the rivers and lakes and the generals are all in the bag." ”

The two continued to return to their seats and drink wine, Jin Shou was naturally suspicious, but he did not have the slightest doubt about the masked man, if a big lie can hit people's hearts, then the lie will become the truth, and the lie will become understandable history if it is multiplied from generation to generation.

Jin Shoutian asked, "What should we do next?"

The masked man smiled and said: "There are people acting in the rivers and lakes every day, and we only need to watch the play, some people are heroes and some people are evildoers, why should we go to participate?"

After that, the two stopped talking and drank quietly, Jin Shoutian was laughing, and the masked man was also laughing, but the two kinds of laughter did not seem to be so similar, Jin Shoutian's smile hid ambition and hope, and the masked man's smile also hid ambition and hope but there was a hint of sin.