I am the leader of the capital

In the inconspicuous small courtyard in the capital, Nangong Jie pushed them away. In the courtyard, Cao Achou was lying on a feldspar drinking wine, with no food, just thinking about things, and took a sip after a while.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Cao Achou didn't raise his head. He didn't raise his eyes until the door of the small courtyard was pushed open, and said calmly, "Is the matter settled?"

"Well, I'm here to say goodbye."

The drinking figure nodded and continued drinking.

There were a lot of weeds in the yard, Nangong Jie sat casually on the steps in front of the main room in the yard, looked up at the moon and sighed: "I don't know when I will see you again this time."

The figure on the feldspar was still drinking, and only insects were heard in the yard. Cao Achou suddenly remembered that the night when he saw the champion, the insects on Qinglu Mountain were also like this, so he asked Nangong Jie: "Do you have a way?" Let the bugs in this yard stop chirping?"

Nangong Jie glanced at Cao Achou, they were similar in stature, but Nangong Jie was taller, Cao Achou's face was always haggard and depressed, while Nangong Jie was cold and vicious.

Can't figure out why Cao Achou asked such a question, the man whose eyes gradually had vertical marks like snake pupils shook his head and replied: "You can kill these bugs, or expel them, but there is no way to let them go." They shut up."

Cao Achou nodded, and Nangong Jie asked curiously, "Why are you asking this?"

Cao Achou, who had a lot of white hair on his head, was still wearing shoes with one high and one low, but he didn't try to hide it, and without turning his head, he said: "When I saw Lord Hou that day, the whole Qinglu Mountain was buzzing with insects. It's all quiet, I don't know why."

Nangong Jie was stunned for a moment, confused. Hearing such a thing, he subconsciously asked, "Is it a coincidence?"

"No, after he walked out of Qinglu Mountain, the whole Qinglu Mountain became a world of singing insects again. When Lord Hou left, all the insects on his back feet started singing again." Cao Achou shook his head, his eyes full of thoughts. , This is something he hasn't figured out for a long time.

Nangong Jie began to think about this question from various angles for a while, but no matter how much he thought about it, he didn’t think there was any reasonable answer. The bug simply didn’t chirp, it didn’t disappear or die, but why didn’t it chirp when it was doing well? Woolen cloth?

He came from the Beast Familiar Sect. His strength is not weak and his status is high, so he has a lot of knowledge. The sect also domesticates some small insects. It is also impossible to make a sound. The only way to shut up an insect without harming it is to scare it.

Nangong Jie, who suddenly had a flash of light in his mind, heard Cao Achou's voice, and Cao Achou said: "I have also studied it these days. This insect will only stop singing when it is frightened. Is it possible to say Lord Hou's aura is enough to permeate the entire mountain, causing the insects on the entire mountain to be in panic."

After Cao Achou said it, he didn't believe it, but there was no other explanation besides this answer. After hearing this, Nangong Jie's brain roared, he clenched his fists tightly, his shoulders trembled uncontrollably, and he spoke with trembling sounds , kept muttering to himself: "Yes, yes, I knew Mr. Bai would not be beaten so easily."

Cao Achou didn't turn his head back, but he seemed to know Nangong Jie's state, and said quietly: Do you believe so firmly? "

Nangong Jie asked instead, "Don't you believe it?"

Cao Achou, who had a lot of mottled white hair on his head, looked at the foot wearing the straw sandal, and said softly, "Master Hou is sick."

"It doesn't matter if you're sick or a tiger can't be provoked by a dog." The sinister-eyed man snorted, glanced at Cao Achou dissatisfied, and responded lukewarmly.

Cao Achou didn't have the slightest mood swings, but said lightly: "But if you are sick, you are sick. You are too obsessed with the legend of the champion Hou Bubai."

"That's right, I still believe that Mr. Bai is invincible between heaven and earth; so what?" Nangong Jie stood up after speaking to Cao Achou with a face full of reason.

Seemingly seeing that Nangong Jie was about to leave, Cao Achou didn't get up, but said to the figure he had known for decades, "Give me back my mask."

"I'm still useful, tell me, what's the price?" Nangong Jie reached into his bosom to take out something, obviously because he knew this old friend too well.

It's just that the man who looked ten years older than himself was still drinking, and said lightly: "If you still need it, take it away, I won't charge you, just leave it alone."

Nangong Jie's expression became serious for the first time, he looked at Cao Achou and said, "When will you leave Beijing? What are you planning for in the capital?"

Cao Achou, who was wearing different shoes, didn't speak. Under the moonlight, it seemed that the rest of his black hair was also white.

There are flowers blooming under the moonlight, blooming gently and silently.

The wind blew, and Nangong Jie suddenly thought of the time when he lived in this capital. Every spring and summer was spent in such insects and cool breeze. At that time, he shed tears while drinking. The man is still a boy, and he is a boy who loves beauty very much.

At that time, Cao Lingzhou, a descendant of the Cao family in the capital, always wore brightly colored clothes, and he would not wear any lighter colors. He must wear two flowers on his head, and the horse must be the rarest pure The white horse, Mrs. Cao felt that going on like this was a bit sick, but no matter what you said, the young man would not listen to it. In order to get a little rustic, he simply called him A Chou.

Thinking of the past, Nangong Jie sighed deeply. The boy at that time was so sunny, always looking forward to defending his family and the country, but his family was gone in a blink of an eye. Cao Achou always collected money, but this time Suddenly no more, quite a bit of farewell.

Back then, Nangong Jie and Cao Lingzhou said that he was stingy when they were joking, so the boy with the flower on his head replied: "No matter what you do for you or sell you something, the last order in this life will definitely not be accepted." Your money, no matter how precious the thing you want, you won’t take money.”

Nicknamed Ah Chou and nicknamed Cao Lingzhou, the man looked at the flowers blooming beside him without saying a word.

Nangong Jie was in a hurry, walked up to him, stretched out his hand to pull up the flower by the root and rubbed his palms together, the flower turned into fine particles and flew away with the wind, looking at the dejected man on the ground who was about to reach for the flagon, Nangong Jie The foot went over and kicked the wine gourd to pieces.

A gourd of wine immediately splashed in the air, Cao Achou wiped his face with his hand, sighed deeply and said, "I don't know why I'm alive these years, obviously it's getting more and more uncomfortable every day."

Nangong Jie remained silent, standing in front of Cao Achou and staring at him closely, apparently waiting for him to continue.

Cao Achou looked at the fragments of the wine gourd on the ground and sighed: "I always feel that I want to live, but I don't know why I want to live, I don't know why I live, I follow the voice in my heart and continue to live until the day I see When it comes to Master Hou, I know, it’s just because he let me live, so I’ve been living like a ghost for so many years.”

"He let you live and you lived? What about you? Don't you want to live?" Nangong Jie leaned lightly on the bamboo fence next to him.

The man smiled miserably, "My Cao family is dead, and Xiuxiu is also dead. Except for a few old friends, they know that I am alive. The whole world knows that I, Cao Lingzhou, also died in that house. Everyone in the world only knows that One is called Embroidery Ghost, but I don’t know that Embroidery Ghost is a person left by the Cao family who ransacked and beheaded back then, a person whose heart is dead but body is still alive.”

Nangong Jie stretched out his hand to catch the snake on the fence, while playing with it, he said to Cao Achou, "So you don't want to live anymore?"

Cao Achou smiled disdainfully, looked at Nangong Jie with a nonchalant smile and said, "What about you? How are you going to live?"

"Whoever kills my whole family, I will seek revenge. Revenge is the motivation for me to live." The man with faint vertical marks in his eyes suddenly pinched the snake's brain open, and then stretched out his tongue to lick it.

Cao Achou on the ground looked at the intoxicated Nangong Jie, and said coldly: "How can the barbarians understand?"

Hearing this title with strong contempt, Nangong Jie's face became much uglier, and he threw the snake carcass in his hand far away, and then replied lukewarmly: "We are barbaric in appearance, but clean in our bones. You self-proclaimed civilized hypocrites."

"The face is so ugly, how can the bones be clean?"

Nangong Jie looked at the man on the ground who looked at him with contempt, and taunted: "We eat snakes, you scholars learn from snakes, we eat meat, you learn viciousness, we look barbaric, and you are even more evil ghosts in human skin .”

Cao Achou snorted and stopped talking, his face was full of the look of not arguing with a barbarian like you, which angered Nangong Jie.

Over the years, Nangong Jie felt that he was no different from the people in the capital, but he could never get rid of this humiliating title. The angry man looked at Cao Achou and said, "We are barbarians, we are no better than you Piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are not comparable to your poems and songs, but we barbarians know that we will die to avenge our loved ones, but you, a civilized person, don't understand."

Cao Achou sat on the ground without getting up, and said contemptuously: "You don't believe me when I say you are a barbarian. You only know that you want to take revenge, and you only know that you abide by the principles of yourself as an heir and a brother; but your family's pursuit is in You have never considered it in your eyes, you only know that after you take revenge, no matter whether you succeed or die under the sword of the enemy, you have a clear conscience, but you have never thought about whether your relatives need your revenge."

"Hahaha, absurd, ridiculous, extremely ridiculous, you always thought that you were hiding your power and biding your time, but it turns out that you have no idea of ​​revenge at all. Is it possible that your whole family is dead and you think that your revenge means disrespecting them?"

Cao Achou lowered his head and looked at the fragments of the wine gourd on the ground for a long time without making a sound. He didn't speak until Nangong Jie moved his foot, "Yes, if I raised my sword against the royal family, then the people under the Nine Springs If they knew it, they would definitely kick me out of the Cao family, and if the underworld is also a world, then I will definitely not be included in the Cao family tree in that world."

After hearing this, Nangong Jie calmed down, the fluctuations in his heart became smaller and smaller, until he was completely calm, the man who thought about it for a while asked softly to the man who was watching the moon and lamenting on the ground, "Why?"

Cao Achou got up from the ground, walked staggeringly into the house, but hesitated for a while when he reached the door, then sat down on the steps, and asked Nangong Jie who was still standing by the bamboo fence Said: "Does anyone in the world know the Cao family?"

Nangong Jie didn't know why, but he still replied: "Young people don't know, but those who are a little older or who have read some records are very familiar with Cao."

"Then how did the Cao family in their world die?"

"Chop all over the house."

"The reason?"

Nangong Jie shook his head, "I don't know."

The man with tears all over his face spread his hands, "Yes, there is no reason, the Cao family is still a loyal minister, and some people may think that the Cao family was sacrificed, but if I go to take revenge, then many years of things will be all right. been rediscovered."