【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

"Then, Emperor Dog really destroyed my self-indictment?" Yuan Zhongxin sat on the boulder that appeared in the air, leaning on his eight-jin thick and warm body, and looked at Yao Zhuo curiously.

Yaozhuo nodded silently, reached out and touched the white porcelain bowl, her fingertips felt a burst of warmth, she then handed the porcelain bowl to Yuan Zhongxin, motioning him to drink the medicine.

The spicy taste of the soup rushed straight into his nostrils, causing Yuan Zhongxin to frown slightly. He took it carefully, Mo Tong stared at the dark brown potion with a lonely face, and sighed: "Oh, when I used to drink medicine, there was Wang Kuan Coax me, I can only drink it, no matter how bad it is, there is also Xiaojing's candied fruit-now there is nothing, how desolate..."

Yao Zhuomu had a delicate face, almost rolled his eyes.

Yuan Zhongxin pursed his lips, raised his head and poured all the soup into his mouth. After that, he spent nearly a quarter of an hour suppressing the nausea and vomiting in his stomach and abdomen. The bitter and spicy taste filled his nasal cavity, almost choking him. Suppressing tears, he pursed his mouth in grievance, and sighed again: "Oh, the medicine boiled by Xiaojing is better, it's not so bitter after all."

Yaozhuo: "..."

I hate it so much, why did it hurt her throat instead of her ears? Could she make herself deaf for a few days?

Yuan Zhongxin smacked his lips, looked at Yaozhuo eagerly, and said sullenly: "Yaozhuo, what are we eating today?"

Yao Zhuo blinked, and pointed to the basket of vegetables and mushrooms behind him.

Yuan Zhongxin looked at the direction she was pointing at, his exquisite face immediately wrinkled into a ball, and he sighed again Yuzu: "Oh, in Kaifeng before, Ya Nei and Zhao Jian bought meat every day, I really want to eat braised pork, I really want to Eating sweet and sour fish, I really want to eat big steamed crabs with scallion oil..."

Yaozhuo: "..."

Where are you, young master!It's so hard to listen to him talking about me like that every day!

Yao Zhuo had no choice but to support his forehead, stood up and wanted to go down the slope, but was stopped by Yuan Zhongxin, only to hear him questioning: "Yao Zhuo, where are you going, you will not be bothered by my nagging right?"

Yao Zhuo looked at his radiant eyes, nodding or no nodding, looking at Yuan Zhongxin without a word.

Yuan Zhongxin groaned and curled up into a ball, wanting to cry without tears: "It's over, even Yao Zhuo hates me, except Wang Kuan, no one really likes me, I'll cry to death and forget it..."

You cry!I'm the one who should cry, okay?

Yaozhuo frowned, and she sighed hundreds of times in her heart, but due to helplessness, the patient was a serious patient, not to mention that this patient had no one to talk with him on weekdays, it was really miserable, she squatted down patiently Come on, she reached out and patted Yuan Zhongxin on the shoulder. When Yuan Zhongxin raised her head, she simply made a gesture of catching fish, indicating that she would cook him grilled fish at noon.

Yuan Zhongxin was overjoyed immediately, before he could speak, Yaozhuo said with gestures: "You must not tell the young master, and you can only eat two small grass and fish."

Yuan Zhongxin's eyes lit up immediately, and he nodded solemnly: "Understood, you do it quickly, I'm about to starve to death."

After Yaozhuo left, Yuan Zhongxin picked up a small stone on the ground, and came to a stone wall at the corner. The stone wall was covered with countless horizontal and vertical scratches. Added one, and then murmured: "There are still five months and thirteen days..."

He blinked desolately, threw the small stone in his hand on the ground, patted Bajin's round head, and said softly: "Go, go to the Red Maple Forest and call the fairy back, it's time to eat."

Bajin uttered a few low whimpers, then ran down the hill in a vigorous posture, towards the exit of the dungeon.

Because of some things, Tang Shun left the dungeon yesterday and went to Kaifeng. The person who could talk to Yuan Zhongxin was gone. He was suffocated to death, so he had no choice but to come down from the hillside and walk in every aisle in the underground city, going round and round. After passing the huge stone wall, he wanted to turn to the left. After walking for half a stick of incense, Yuan Zhongxin came to a vermilion wooden door carved with hollow flower decorations. He pushed open the wooden door, and countless stone tablets immediately appeared in front of him. Looking around, there is no end in sight.

This is the place Gu Ya said that only the mountain guards of the dungeon can set foot in. Since the mercenary plan was implemented, the names of countless mercenaries who have been removed from the outside world and no one remembers them are stored.

This is also the biggest secret of the dungeon. Personnel and events that cannot exist in the world of mortals are engraved and engraved one after another by the resolute stone tablets here. As for how these names were engraved here, neither Yuan Zhongxin nor Tang Shun can understand. I know, maybe in the future, when Tang Shun wants to engrave the names of other mercenaries himself, he will understand.

I still remember that when Yuan Zhongxin pushed open the wooden door for the first time under the leadership of Tang Shun and touched these stone tablets for the first time, Yuan Zhongxin was shocked besides touching the soul. When he reached out to touch the stone tablet , every touch between the fingertips was rough and cold, Yuan Zhongxin, who seldom shed tears, shed tears inexplicably, and the heaviness of the time interval made him feel depressed and uncomfortable.

In the past dynasties, the sun, the moon, the stars, the singing of flowers and trees, the world and the world, all these people gave up and exchanged everything. However, no one in this world remembers their names, and even whether they exist or not. Never knew, let alone cared.

On a certain day, after countless years, days and nights, across thousands of stars, rivers and moons, through vicissitudes, wind and rain, land and sea drifting, the sky just gave a finger or two, and fate ignored the long-term barriers, so that they met Yuan Zhongxin.

Yuan Zhongxin named this place "Mercenary's Home". He has no literary talents and is not good at wielding ink and ink. After a long time, the family is gone, and Yuan Zhongxin privately gave them another belonging.

Now, he understands why the mountain guards are willing to stay here for decades, because here, there are people who need to be remembered in their hearts, and there are secrets that need to be passed down from generation to generation.

It would be too sad if even the mountain guards were forgotten.

At the top of the mercenary’s house is a small mountain pass, where the sun is shining brightly, the moonlight is cold, and scattered raindrops will slip in through the small mountain pass, adorning every stone tablet here little by little. Every hour, this place will have a different aesthetic feeling due to the change of day and night in the outside world. Therefore, apart from liking to go out to dig treasures on weekdays, Yuan Zhongxin's second hobby is probably to stay in this room.

Yuan Zhongxin can't keep his mouth shut, he likes to talk to people, especially after living in the dungeon to heal his injuries, but the strange thing is that as soon as he walks into the mercenary's house, he can keep his mouth shut for a whole day, he likes to be quiet Sitting quietly beside the stele, looking up at the light changes at the small mountain pass to guess the time outside, he also likes to study every name on the stele carefully. He once tried to find out the names of the 36 people in Qinghe Town , he only remembered that the leading man's alias was Lao Yu, but from the stone tablet, he found about two hundred of them with the surname Yu alone.

Yuan Zhongxin found a place with the best light and sat on the ground, then looked up at the wispy white light projected from the small mountain pass, his expression was a little dazed, he suddenly sighed deeply, and said to himself: "It's killing people again. worth……"

It was completely within Yuan Zhongxin's expectation that Wang Kuan would kill with his own hands, but Yuan Zhongxin was unhappy not because he was worried that Wang Kuan would become a murderous monster, but because he was worried that the blood of those bastards would stain Wang Kuan's hands. However, committing the taboo of killing for him is actually not worth it.

It seems that only a moment passed, and it seemed that several hours passed. In the vast and empty place, a deep whisper came faintly, full of longing and loneliness: "Wang Kuan, I miss you so much... ..."

Wang Kuan.

I miss you so much...

Wang Kuan was sitting quietly at the pear-blossom table, dealing with one after another official letters sent from various places in the southern mountains and northern borders. During the period, the number of officials capable of serving in the court decreased sharply, and the vacated official positions needed to be filled one by one. Wei Zhuoran and others went to every administrative area to investigate, and he was not idle. Choose the right one among them.

He stared suddenly, staring blankly at every corner of the Qizhai hall, with a dazed expression.

When Zhao Jian and Xue Ying saw his reaction, the former asked worriedly, "Wang Kuan, what's wrong with you?"

Wang Kuan regained his composure, lowered his eyes, and suddenly said with difficulty: "I seem to hear him calling my name."

Zhao Jian and Xue Ying looked at each other, and they both saw helplessness and bitterness in each other's eyes.

Xue Ying said hesitantly: "Wang Kuan, why don't you rest first, and Zhao Jian and I will deal with these lists. You haven't closed your eyes for two consecutive days."

Wang Kuan was silent for a moment, then slowly shook his head: "I'm not tired, I'm just..."

I miss Yuan Zhongxin so much, I'm going crazy.

He suddenly felt tired. If it wasn't for Zhao Jian and the others who were familiar with Wang Kuan, no one would have believed that Wang Kuan, who was frightened by the rumors, was so fragile and harmless at this moment. Thirteen days... it's still so long."

When Wang Kuan said this, both Zhao Jian and Xue Ying felt quite illusory. They didn't expect Yuan Zhongxin to leave them for so long. At this time two years ago, all six of them were there. Lu Guannian, Yue Military Academy, Liang Zhu, etc. , the old thief and the others were all there, and then happily spent a new year in Qizhai.

Yuan Zhongxin is gone, they don't have that kind of thought anymore, the New Year's is over, the fireworks will not be set off, and even Wei Yanei, who used to love to play and play, has changed overnight, waking up every day and focusing on dealing with it. Wei Zhuoran was really surprised by his change of doing all kinds of court affairs.

Zhao Jian couldn't bear to let the sad atmosphere spread anymore, so she changed the subject and said, "Wang Kuan, you obviously have the ability to bring down the emperor, why did you keep him?"

Wang Kuan's eyes changed suddenly, and his eyes were cold. He stood up, stretched his muscles and bones a little, walked to the window, stared at the withered deep forest outside the window, and twitched the corners of his mouth meaningfully: "I ask you, what is the emperor's most important thing? What?"

Zhao Jian's first reaction: "Power."

"That's right, power, but it is absolutely impossible to develop power without the strength of your confidantes. Now I will kill all the manpower he can use, and I will put all our people in extremely important positions that hold monstrous power." People, he can't even deal with a small supplementary note now, so what power is there?"

Xue Ying and Zhao Jian's heart skipped a beat, they suddenly realized the deep meaning of Wang Kuan's words, and they felt their hair stand on end.

Wang Kuan turned his back to them, couldn't see their expressions clearly, but he guessed a little bit, he drew a cold and cruel smile, and said to himself: "I will not abolish his throne, I want him to watch all this It happened, and watched me take away his most valued power bit by bit, but he could only accept it, helpless, and in the end, he would lose even the courage to resist me."

"As I said before, killing people has to kill one's heart. Is there anything more hopeless than watching one's most important things go away bit by bit?"

"Death is just a matter of closing his eyes to him. This is too simple and not enough--I want that dog emperor to die until he dies."