Peach and plum spring breeze and a glass of wine

"Oh, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival..."

On the second floor of a secluded inn in Kaifeng Mansion and Zhuxian Town, a strong man with disheveled hair, unkempt beard, and a face so vicissitudes of life that it was almost difficult to tell his age, leaned against the window with a wine bottle and sighed at the moon.

"If you can't go back, how about I spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with you?"

A clear, peaceful voice suddenly sounded from the darkness outside the window.

"You finally came!"

The capable man glanced out the window and then picked up the wine bottle and took a big sip. There was no strange expression between his brows.

"Are you waiting for me?"

The man asked in a low voice in the darkness.

The capable man drooped his eyelids and replied feebly: "Yeah, I've been waiting for you all the way. I thought you wouldn't come..."

There was only a slight sound like pebbles falling on the tile surface, and an agile figure climbed out of the window lightly and sat down opposite the strong man.

"Boom."

The visitor silently placed the two jars of wine on the dining table without saying a word.

The capable man looked at the boy opposite him carefully, and after a while he suddenly smiled and said, "Is this scar on your face left by my fourth uncle?"

The laughter was broken, the voice was hoarse, and the emotions were mixed.

"no."

The visitor responded softly: "It was created by Bai Mujiu, a disciple of Mingjiao."

The capable man laughed silently when he heard this, lowered his head and said: "Very good, your nickname of Jade Faced Fox is finally not destroyed in the hands of my Xie family."

After a pause, he looked at the two jars of wine on the table and asked softly and casually: "Is this a farewell drink?"

The visitor moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but when he spoke, he swallowed it back.

He was silent for a moment, then raised his hand without saying a word and slowly opened the mud seals of the two jars of wine.

He pushed a jar of wine in front of the strong man and said in a very clumsy and aggressive tone: "I said this is a farewell wine, do you dare to drink it?"

The capable man looked at the wine jar in front of him, then at the familiar yet unfamiliar face opposite him, and shook his head vigorously: "I don't dare, I don't dare!"

The eyelids that the visitor had just raised drooped again. He grabbed the wine jar in front of him, raised his head and drank a big gulp.

"Boom!"

He slammed the wine jar onto the dining table, wiped the corners of his mouth, raised his bright eyes and looked directly at the person opposite, and said forcefully: "You and I have known each other since we were young, and we have always had fights and drinks. I drank a lot, and calling me brother may be a bit hypocritical, but calling me a close friend is definitely not an exaggeration!"

"I don't need to tell you what kind of job the embroidered clothes guard does for a living!"

"If what you, the Xie family, are doing is just selling your official position, smuggling and selling stolen goods, if I deal with your Xie family, that would be me being ruthless and unjust, and not recognizing my relatives!"

"But what your Xie family is doing is colluding with enemies and betraying the country for glory!"

"What would you do if it were you?"

"The bones of the fifty thousand soldiers who died in the Battle of Songting Pass are still cold, but their desperate battle cries still echoed in my ears all night long..."

"what can I do?"

The powerful figure lowered his eyes, not daring to look directly into the eyes of the visitor.

After a while, he stretched out his palm, tremblingly lifted the wine jar in front of him, and drank heavily. The crystal wine poured out, wetting his cheeks and the skirt of his clothes.

"well said!"

He put down the wine jar, his eyes were red and his face was distorted, and he laughed hysterically: "What can I do? I can only watch my best friend kill my whole family!"

The visitor raised the wine jar again and took a big gulp of wine. He said with a breath of wine, "I never thought about making your Xie family full. I have always given your family opportunities. Unfortunately, no one is willing to take it. Everyone wants it." If you go all the way to the dark side...you may even think that you might die!"

The vigorous man laughed so hard that his face was filled with water, and he didn't know whether it was from wine or tears: "You can stand and talk without hurting your back. Now that you have reached that point, is there any difference between half of you dying and the whole family dying? Of course you have to risk your life. Go give it a try, won’t everything be fine if you win?”

The visitor also laughed: "Since you know everything, come and teach me. Apart from sending all my best friends to the execution ground, what else can I do?"

The vigorous man seemed to be angry and laughed, tremblingly leaning forward and back and saying, "I, Xie Yu, am truly lucky to know you, Shen Fa, in my entire life!"

The visitor raised the wine jar and signaled to him: "If there is another life, don't know me again!"

The vigorous man grabbed the wine jar and took a sip. He whispered with tears in his eyes, "I don't want to know you anymore. This feeling is too painful, too painful..."

The visitor held the wine jar and stared at his friend who used to be heroic and high-spirited like a champion, but now he was disheveled and despairing like a lost dog, and he felt very tormented in his heart.

After a while, he put down the wine jar and said in a low voice: "Go away, take your elite men with you, and go to the Western Regions, Lingnan, and Japan. You can win a place wherever you go... Just don't go back to Shangjing." , I don’t want to kill my best friend!”

The tough man hissed as if crying and laughing: "I want to leave too, but I can't just watch you kill me all over the house!"

The visitor frowned: "Why don't you understand? You are just a knife, and someone is encouraging you to die so that you can keep your glory and wealth for them!"

"I know!"

The capable man collapsed on his chair: "From the time I brought the brothers from Fenwu Camp out of Liaodong, I knew that we were like a knife. Some people hoped that we could return to Beijing and kill him and turn the world upside down... But I can How to do it?"

The visitor finally showed his first smiling face here. This guy was still so alert, like a wolf, ruthless and accurate, never missing any opportunity.

What a pity, they could have fought side by side until the last moment of their lives...

As if he had made some kind of determination, he suddenly lifted the wine jar and took a big sip, and said harshly: "Give me your people, your family members, I will save them!"

The capable man raised his head and looked at him steadily.

The visitor stared at him intently.

After a while, the capable man finally smiled and said: "Shen Lao Er, Shen Lao Er, you are still so cowardly, indecisive and soft-hearted. If you don't change, you will die miserably!"

This smile, on his dirty face, was exceptionally clean.

The visitor also smiled and said, "What can I do?"

He didn't care whether his friend was happy or not. He raised the wine jar and touched it with the wine jar in front of him. He raised his head and drank a sip. He breathed the wine and said: "Those who pass by enemies privately, those who are in charge, those who are officials or generals." , please stop having delusions, women and children, I will try my best to help them find a way to survive, it won’t be too good, I can only ensure that they can survive!”

The capable man smiled and said, "Can I still trust you?"

Shen Fa looked directly at him: "You don't have to believe it...at worst, I will make amends to you again when you get under Jiuquan!"

The capable man lay back on the chair again, raised his head and looked directly at the cobwebs on the beams, muttering to himself: "With your words, I have been waiting for you in vain."

He stretched out his dirty big hand, and under Shen Fa's nervous gaze, he tapped his fingers on the table three times.

The next second, several arrogant men wearing iron armor and swords hanging from their waists jumped up to the second floor. They faced the powerful man and clasped their fists and said, "General!"

In the darkness, countless fingers nervously rested on the trigger of the crossbow.

The capable man suddenly didn't realize it. He pointed at the person opposite him and said casually: "Remember this person. As long as this person continues to fight with the Tatars, you will listen to him, even if he wants you to go to the grassland and die." , you also listen to him!"

"But if one day he betrays the traitor, even if he is just suspected of betraying the traitor, you will immediately chop off his head and kill his whole family!"

With murderous words, the visitor's mind suddenly relaxed.

He raised the wine jar and said seriously to the capable man: "I, Shen Fa, will be lucky to be your friend, Xie Yu, for the rest of my life!"

The tough man sneered and didn't move at all.

The visitor didn't mind, he raised his head and drank the wine in one gulp, then stood up drunkenly: "But in this life, we will never see each other again..."

The capable man waved his hand lazily: "If I don't see you, I'll see you again, but you must remember what you said. One less person, and I will fight you to the death for the rest of my life!"

The visitor sneered and jumped out of the window: "Who is afraid of death? I'm just afraid that without you as a friend..."

The capable man was silent for a long time before he raised the wine jar in front of him: "I'm sorry, old friend!"